CCRKBA BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF GUN BAN GROUPS, OBAMA ADMIN. ON NEWTOWN EXPLOITATION

[Subdeacon Joe]

CCRKBA BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF GUN BAN GROUPS, OBAMA ADMIN. ON NEWTOWN EXPLOITATION

 

Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

 

 

 

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and

Bear Arms today said gun ban groups and the Obama administration are

engaged in “world-class hypocrisy” for criticizing gun rights

organizations over “Guns Save Lives Day” – on the day after the first

anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy – while planning their own

lobbying effort and activities to exploit the event.

“When we launched ‘Guns Save Lives Day’ (GSLD) we were condemned for

‘poor taste’ by the same groups that are now reportedly planning a

November lobbying effort, and media events coinciding with the Sandy

Hook anniversary,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “According to

Politico, the leading gun prohibition groups are coordinating with the

Obama administration to fully exploit the Newtown anniversary to further

their own political agenda, exactly as we predicted when we announced

the GSLD project.

“Our effort calls attention to the importance of firearms for

personal protection and neighborhood safety,” he continued. “We’re

emphasizing the need to protect a fundamental civil right, while the gun

ban lobby is capitalizing on a horrible tragedy to destroy that right,

and they know it.”

Politico reported Monday that weekly sessions on gun control have

been held between the White House Office of Public Engagement and

representatives from Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns,

the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action, the

Center for American Progress, Organizing for Action and Americans for

Responsible Solutions.

According to Politico, “Officials from the White House Office of

Public Engagement, which reports to senior Obama aide Valerie Jarrett,

are now carrying the administration’s gun control efforts. OPE officials

hold a regular meeting with the major gun control groups known as the

Gun Violence Table. The weekly sessions often include OPE Director

Paulette Aniskoff or official Paul Monteiro.”

“For those lobbying groups to condemn gun rights organizations is at

best disingenuous, if not downright despicable,” Gottlieb stated. “They

have known for weeks, perhaps months, that they were going to exploit

this solemn anniversary, and it is clear now they do not want a

different message competing with their efforts to erode our civil

rights.

“Not only are they trying to destroy the Second Amendment,” he

concluded, “it is now abundantly clear they want to impair our First

Amendment right to talk about it.”

[Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355]

That pretty well sums up the situation!