CCRKBA Exposes Congressional Anti-Gun Hypocrisy
U.S. Newswire
28 Sep 20:05
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Exposes
Congressional Anti-Gun Hypocrisy In Wake Of Terrorist Attack
To: National Desk
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911; www.ccrkba.org

BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following was
released today by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms:

When “Roll Call” reported Sept. 28 that several members of
Congress, including advocates of tough gun control laws, have
sought firearms training to protect themselves and their families
from possible terrorist attack, it brought a quick response from
one of the nation’s leading gun rights organizations.

“Once again, those in Congress who would strip American citizens
of their gun rights, and the ability to defend themselves from
harm, are revealed to be world-class hypocrites,” declared Alan
Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). “While they don’t want other citizens to be
capable of fending off a violent attack, whether from a domestic
criminal or an international terrorist, they apparently think it is
perfectly fine for them to have guns to protect themselves and
their families.”

“Roll Call” reported that, “Several lawmakers described colleagues
– including some advocates of strict controls on handguns — who
are now seeking firearms training in hopes of protecting themselves
if the need should arise.”

Said Joe Waldron, CCRKBA executive director: “Isn’t it amazing
how suddenly these people have become ‘enlightened’ to the fact
that their lives are worth defending, with a gun if necessary.
That’s what firearms rights advocates have been insisting for
years, but until now, these people have had very deaf ears. They
haven’t been too concerned for anyone else’s safety, but when it is
they who are in danger, they’re all for carrying guns.”

Added Dave Workman, CCRKBA communications director, a certified
firearms instructor, “‘Roll Call’ didn’t identify any of these
hypocrites, but it really isn’t necessary. It’s contemptible when
politicians consider their safety more important than the safety of
law-abiding gun owners whose rights some in Congress have been
trampling for years.”

According to the “Roll Call” story, pro-gun rights Republican
Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas summed it up best: “I think we
need some means of protecting ourselves.”

Observed Gottlieb: “Rep. Tiahrt has long understood this issue
in its proper perspective. Millions of honest American citizens
have been defending their gun rights for years against unrelenting
attacks by Congressional anti-gunners. It is so terribly sad that
it took a tragedy of this proportion to wake some of these people
up. The fact that we have fought so hard to protect the Second
Amendment is what makes it possible for these people to now
consider arming themselves as a viable option.

“If the anti-gunners had had their way,” Gottlieb concluded,
“they would now be as defenseless as they have tried to leave the
rest of us. Let this be a lesson to anyone on Capitol Hill who has
fought to take gun rights away from honest citizens. The Second
Amendment has never been about duck hunting, it has always been
about personal defense. When it’s your life that may be in danger,
that’s about as personal as it gets.”

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With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.

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