Posted on 08/14/2006 4:42:49 PM PDT by rellimpank
Seeking to pick up the baton dropped by the ham-fisted Americans for Gun Safety, the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) has arrived on the scene to become the latest front group for the anti-gun movement in America.
BY CHRIS W. COX, NRA-ILA Executive Director Tracking the recent history of the Second Amendment debate wouldn’t be complete without a look at the shifting tactics of the opposition. Our tireless efforts and resulting victories at the ballot box have made it clear that openly campaigning against the Second Amendment is a political loser. The anti-gun groups have undertaken a concerted effort to mask their long-term agenda, but only as a mark of pure, calculating political expedience.
It surprised no one when Handgun Control, Inc., decided to change its name to the decidedly vague “Brady Campaign.” But the effort to paint the anti-gun agenda with the comfortable warmth of “gun safety” rhetoric moved from tactical to strategic with the formation of Americans for Gun Safety (AGS) in July 2000. Funded solely by New York City dot-com billionaire Andrew McKelvey—previously a member of the Handgun Control, Inc., board of directors—AGS supported the same tired gun-control agenda, but portrayed itself as “bringing a new, centrist perspective to a long-polarized debate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nraila.org ...
Funded solely by New York City dot-com billionaire Andrew McKelvey
guaranteed affiliated with mayor bloomberg, demorat rhino looking to spend his money to run for prez,. what is it with these ny scumbags imposing their liberal crap on the rest of us.... the northeast u.s.a. should be banished, cut off like the cancer it is....
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I guess we should start Islamics for Bush, and the Republican Socialist Alliance
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