HERE`S A “STORY”–FROM A GROUP NAMED BRADY
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>The Brady gun-ban group is at it again. Faced with the prospect of the
>Clinton Gun Ban expiring, the Brady bunch is engaging in a desperate
>fundraising campaign aimed at portraying the NRA as “extremist.” Full
>page ads, recently placed in the New York Times, are not only full of
>fallacious drivel, emotional sensationalism, and outright falsehoods,
>but also state that NRA has “flat-out lost touch with the American
>people.” The Brady Campaign`s extensive research must have overlooked
>the fact that NRA has four million “American people” as members and
is
>the nation`s oldest and largest civil rights organization.
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>Desperately seeking relevance, the Brady bunch has even launched an
>anti-NRA website which attempts to bash NRA as “blacklisters” for
merely
>documenting the gun-ban advocacy of such “mainstream” American
>”luminaries” as Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, and, lest we forget,
Moon
>and Dweezil Zappa.
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>Duplicitous ads and imaginary “blacklists?” That`s some story.
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>Alternatively, to demonstrate the broad base of support for NRA and its
>legislative agenda, we have launched an NRA “Good Guys” List website.
>It`s a list of law-abiding Americans who support freedom of speech and
>the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. We encourage you to stand up and be
>counted by adding your name to our “Good Guys” list. You don`t have
to
>be an NRA member to join the list; you just have to believe in freedom.
>To visit the site and add your name to the list, please go to
>www.NRAHQ.org/goodguys.asp <http://www.NRAHQ.org/goodguys.asp>; .
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>AN ADVOCATE FOR GUN SAFETY?
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>At a recent meeting of police chiefs from around the country, Richard
>Aborn, the former president of Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady
>Campaign) opened the program and introduced the speakers. Speaking at
>the end of the presentation, Mr. Aborn caused members of the assembled
>group to stare wide-eyed at him as he pointed?with his finger on the
>trigger?a semi-automatic pistol at the audience!
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>This “advocate for gun safety” most assuredly flaunted his ignorance
of
>even the most basic rules of safe gun handling, ignorantly pointing the
>gun in an unsafe direction, failing to visually inspect the gun`s
>chamber and not keeping his finger off the trigger. The outspoken
>gun-rights critic seemingly has little or no practical “hands on”
>experience in the area for which his background and political position
>would beg some expertise.
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>Back-pedaling and sounding more like a child rationalizing his being
>caught in a wrongful act, Aborn weakly offered, “In demonstrating them,
>I
>inadvertently pointed it to show how criminals use them. I instantly
>realized it was a mistake, and I said so. I was very honest about that.”
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>Perhaps Mr. Aborn should attend an NRA safety course and learn the rules
>of safe and proper firearm handling from the real advocates of gun
>safety.
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