NRA: Brady Campaign's Contradiction on Concealed Guns
By Wayne LaPierre
Paul Helmke and the Brady Campaign have recently been trying to make hay over the fact that the Starbucks Coffee chain doesn't mind having law-abiding gun owners as customers. Helmke's been spouting off his statements about gun owners on blogs, in news stories and on television for years now, but his recent rants border on incoherence.
Take, for example, his recent assertion in a Huffington Post blog:
"The gun pushers want an America where there is nowhere that you and your family can go to be free from guns ... The gun lobby's clout in state legislatures has forced consideration of dangerous proposals to allow people to legally carry concealed weapons into bars, churches, workplace parking lots, airports, parks, college campuses and elsewhere."
And yet I recall on the day the Heller decision was handed down at the U.S. Supreme Court, when Paul and I were talking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Helmke came right out and said that concealed carry is the law in 48 of 50 states, it "doesn't cause many problems," and that there were bigger issues for the anti-gun group.
Now Helmke's changed his tune and is happy to try and demonize the millions of Right-to-Carry holders in this country. As the relevance of the Brady Campaign declines, and as more and more Americans reject their anti-gun agenda, Helmke and his cohorts are reduced to trying to scare or bully others into supporting their misguided beliefs ... even if they have to contradict themselves in the process.
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We have a Conceal Carry law here. All CCW permit holders must keep their firearms out of sight. Believe it or not, we are not "cowboys" or swaggering vigilantes. Most of us (CCW holders) are educated and respectively dressed with the same kind of attitude. The only difference is, we don't want us or our loved ones to be victims of some parasitic social predator. My town currently has a serial rapist preying on single women . God forbid if I have to discharge my firearm, I will probably spend all my savings (and possibly my job ) defending myself against "wrongful death " lawsuits from the criminal's family , but, the alternative is unacceptable.
I must agree with those that have so stringently and clearly stated the obvious. Laws forbidding the possession and legal carry of hand guns do not protect the law abiding citizen no more than a lock will keep a thief away from your home, locks keep the honest man honest but not the thief out and gun laws do not keep you safe as the only safety you have is provided by yourself and with a gun it is easier to keep your self and your loved ones safe. The thin blue line is mighty thin most of the time and can not be every where at once so defend yourself and your loved ones by the God given right expressed in the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Since you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom , go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
~Samuel Adams, 1776 (paraphrased)
Personally, I don't care to have myself or my family "free from guns ". I want to go to places where that are free of BAD GUYS with guns, and the bad guys don't give a rat's ass about laws restricting gun posession. The more good guys have guns, the lower the chances of bad guys using theirs.
MFE92 is exactly right !!!
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
~Thomas Jefferson, quoting criminologist Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment."
There wouldn't be "gun pushers" if there weren't anti-gunners trying to take our rights away. In other words, disband "Brady" and there won't be a reason for gun rights groups that are so vocal, and they will go away too.
I don't follow anyone, because those that appear to be on the same path usually end up just getting in my way.