Posted on 04/07/2015 8:26:41 AM PDT by rktman
Sarah Brady had been the face of Gun Control in America for more than three decades. However today at age 73 she has succumbed to a bout of pneumonia.
Brady became the convenient standard bearer for the forces that hate all guns and gun rights. This after a armed madman wounded her husband James Brady who was President Ronald Reagan’s Press Secretary during a 1981assassination attempt. Brady led a very deceptive campaign that was intended to incrementally outlaw all firearms. She cleverly began to change firearm adjectives and successfully demonized firearms based on simple cosmetics. Like Brady most Americans were ignorant about guns. She renamed all the firearms that looked somewhat scary as assault weapons.
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That is likely so. Sugarman promoted the idea of confusing the public with dishonest terms to demonize that he wanted banned.
If you will remember, HCI and others only wanted to “control” handguns. Rifles would not be affected.
In 1984, the MacDonalds massacre took place in which the shooter used a pump shotgun, Browning Hi-Power, and a long barreled Uzi rifle. This is what set off Sarah Brady into an anti-rifle rage against rifles. She saw it as a target of opportunity to ban something, ANYTHING, as no one was expecting a move against long guns.
Josh Sugarman also hopped on the anti-rifle bandwagon with his diatribe in 1988.
More here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sugarmann
” ... he believes a full ban on handguns is necessary.[16] He has also called for bans on semi-automatic rifles and standard-capacity magazines.[3]”
> “She did not start this, it was started back in 1962 when Thomas J Dodd and Emanuel Cellar proposed a handgun registration scheme. Long guns would not be affected, they said! Oh yes, they also wanted a BAN on the import of foreign “Saturday Night Specials” and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles. The real reason for this was to protect their own firearm industries in the NE.”
Actually, Dodd did nothing for the firearm industries in the NE. He did it for himself.
He had a habit of “investigating” different industries with the plan to make laws to make it difficult for them to operate. Then he would get all kinds of money from the industry to drop the plan. After that, he would move on to the next industry to pressure. It just so happened that he was pressuring the firearms industry for bribes when MLK and RFK were assassinated. The rest is history.
The elder Dodd was so dishonest in his shaking down various industries for money that he was censured by Congress. His son was not must better, but he did not get caught.
I will not speak ill of the deceased, may God have mercy on her soul. Her temporal actions were contrary to the freedoms we enjoy and I disagree vehemently with virtually everything for which she stood. Thanks be to God her efforts were in vain. However as a child of God only He knows the state of her immortal soul. May she rest in peace...
Good news she don’t have to worry about guns anymore.
Better yet if she had repented of her evil before departing this world.
When liberals are against guns...they want all guns outlawed.... for everybody PATHETIC
You have it right.
FReegards
If I remember right, that murderer used the pistol for most of the shootings, because the semiauto Uzi jammed early on. The biggest culprit behind the high death toll was because the SWAT commander refused to send in his men when the shooting was underway.
Just like the ‘AK’ in AK-47 doesn’t mean Avtomat-Kalashnikova..
It means ALL KILLED!!!!
/sarc.
I was wondering when someone would pour water on her... Now why can’t th pour some on hildebeast
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