Posted on 08/08/2014 9:20:12 AM PDT by rktman
WHEN James Brady (pictured, left), who at the time was Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, was shot in the head during a failed assassination attempt on the president in 1981, newscasts reported that he was dead. This proved premature: Mr Brady died on August 4th. After the shooting, he went on to become the country’s most successful advocate for gun control. Under a law that bears his name, over 2m applications for firearm purchases have been turned down after background checks revealed that their owners were not the sorts of people to be trusted with a Glock. Since Gabby Giffords, a congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in the head in 2011, no federal gun-control laws have passed. The different responses reveal much about what has changed in the triangular relationship between Americans, guns and politicians between the two shootings.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Both are proof you can shoot a liberal in the head and not hit a brain.
Corrected it.
The whole point of the 2nd Amendment is to allow us to shoot they Tyrants in power AFTER they have become Tyrannical......
“Congress has passed laws that make it impossible to know for sure how many Americans own guns, but polling data suggest that the number who do has decreased since Mr Brady was shot.”
Me thinks the author has his head up his azz.
Of course, when the gun banners got the "assault weapons ban" passed, they revealed their true intents.....removal of all guns from civilian hands.
Was a Reagan republican. Lost part of his brain, and woke up a Democratic activist. Kinda says it all.
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- James Brady had a huge collection of expensive fully automatic firearms, hunting rifles, handguns…
- Sarah Brady set up a huge tax-exempt anti-gun foundation and traveled the USA grabbing huge speaking fees at dinners - more if she dragged Jim Brady along with her. She also had and still has a large crew of heavily armed security guards that travel with her.
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And this is a British magazine. That’s why a lot of what it says will make no sense, such as gun ownership decreasing, etc. This has as much value as a Denver post article on the race for mayor of London or something.
“More and more guns in fewer and fewer hands” is a standard gungrabber mantra, along with “Nobody wants to take away your guns!!”
Honestly, I believe the Brits actually enjoy their disarmed state of moral superiority over us “paranoid guntoting Yanks”.
They can have it.
I saw a bumper sticker at a funshow that said “John Hinckley shot the wrong Brady”.
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- You Betcha - Sarah Brady created a money machine and laundered millions
- Now she will attempt to eternally have tax-exempt fundraising dinners until she dies -
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