And even if that were true, so what?
Gun manufacturers are rightly interested in being able to sell what they make, just as the Brady life forms are interested in seeing them go under.
If one side is wrong, so is the other. 
Posted on 02/20/2008 7:14:59 AM PST by DaveLoneRanger
Four months after Peter Hamm, spokesperson for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, verbally attacked the college-based, grassroots organization Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, telling a Fox News reporter, "You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school," he is stepping up the rhetoric. Not content with encouraging college students to forgo their educations rather than fight for a cause in which they believe, Mr. Hamm has resorted to baseless conspiracy theories and slander.
In a February 19, 2008, interview with Anna Hipsley of Australia’s ABC News radio, Mr. Hamm made the following statement about SCCC:
“We know very clearly that they were organized and they are funded by the gun industry, by the companies that are selling the guns. This is not some spontaneous, grassroots organization."
Scott Lewis, media coordinator for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, responded, “In a way I kind of envy the Brady Campaign. It must be so much easier to run an advocacy group when you don’t feel obligated to substantiate anything you say.” Mr. Lewis went on to categorically deny that either the gun industry or the gun lobby have played any part in the organizing or financing of SCCC:
“A few small gun shops have donated holsters for students to use in our Empty Holster Protests, and the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, located in Nevada, sent us three gift certificates that we’re going to auction to raise money. And after SCCC started making national news, a couple of months ago, the NRA sent me a hat and a T-shirt. But other than that, we’ve never received anything from the gun industry or the gun lobby. So far, our entire operating budget has come out of the pockets of our members—mostly poor college students who strongly believe in this cause. About a month ago we opened a bank account and started accepting donations, to help raise the money we need to incorporate. So far we’ve raised a combined total of $610.02, from online donations and T-shirt sales.”
In response to the allegations made by the Brady Campaign, SCCC’s response is simple—“Prove it.” In the name of full disclosure, SCCC is willing to make all of its financial records available to the media if the Brady Campaign will do the same. Explained Lewis, “After building SCCC on a foundation of our own sweat equity and financial sacrifices, our members are incensed that the Brady Campaign is accusing us of being well paid pawns.”
Though the Brady Campaign likes to attribute all efforts to maintain and/or restore gun rights in America to an all-powerful gun industry that uses coercion and manipulation to subvert the true wishes of the American people, the real American gun industry has an annual revenue of only about $2 billion, leaving it inadequately funded for the job of manipulating the American government or the American people. At the true heart of the fight for gun rights in America are everyday people, like the members and organizers of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus—people who believe they have the inalienable right to defend themselves and who trust their fellow citizens enough to guarantee them that same right.
Despite the Brady Campaign’s baseless accusations and constant barrage of insults—such as Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke’s statement on Fox News, on October 26, 2007, that SCCC members are students who “like to dress up” to “feel more masculine”—they are unable to go toe-to-toe with SCCC on the facts. And because the organizers of SCCC are confident that facts will win out over rhetoric every time, the national officers for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus wish to extend the board of directors of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence an open invitation to debate the issue of concealed carry on college campuses, on the campus of any University in the United States of America.
For more information, contact Scott Lewis at media@concealedcampus.org, or visit http://www.ConcealedCampus.org.
ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY ON CAMPUS - Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is a national, non-partisan, grassroots organization comprised of over 15,000 college students, college faculty members, parents of college students, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of concealed handgun licenses should enjoy the same rights on college campuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCCC is dedicated to persuading state governments and school administrators to approve laws and campus policies that will grant all citizens with concealed handgun licenses the right to carry their concealed handguns on college campuses. We are not affiliated with the NRA, a political party, or any other organization.
An honest government would have the Brady Bunch in prison on sedition and RICO charges.
Conspiracy to destroy the Constitution of the United States.
“We know very clearly that they were organized and they are funded by the gun industry, by the companies that are selling the guns. This is not some spontaneous, grassroots organization.”
The left always accuses its enemies of the things they are doing themselves.
Let’s see an audit of theyre grass roots funding!
It wasn’t bad enough that poor Brady had his life stolen from him, now his good name has been also. A true American tragedy.
The heck of it is, being well-funded sounds kind of nice! If I’m going to be accused of it, you’d think I could at least enjoy the perks along with the costs.
If the Brady Bunch believes this student organization is funded by the arms industry, then it is just as likely that the Brady Bunch is funded by armed criminals intent on keeping the general public defenseless.
Let’s compare the books of both groups & see who funds whom!
It isn’t stolen if you give it away.
Hoplophobes! If a person was subject to panic attacks at the mention of any other inanimate object, the would be hospitalized for treatment, yet these Hoplophobes are treated as if they weren’t profoundly mentally ill.
“It wasn’t bad enough that poor Brady had his life stolen from him, now his good name has been also. A true American tragedy.”
Don’t assume that Jim Brady had his “good name” stolen from him. He and his wife are alive, well and very involved in the Brady Campaign. Don’t assume since he was Reagan’s press secretary that he is not a gun grabber. I don’t know what his feelings were before he got shot, but I assume from his response to being shot that he was a gun grabber then.
It is a tragedy that he got shot, however he is a willing accomplice in the Brady Campaign.
There's the challenge.
Any bets this will happen?
After being shot in the head he was not the same person.
Goddam Brady Bunch. Just because the guy took a bullet for Ronald Reagan doesn’t give him the right to screw me over on my rights to bear arms...I mean...taking a bullet for the president was in the job description...right?
“After being shot in the head he was not the same person.”
Just curious, how do you know this? He was Reagan’s press secretary (and in the public eye) for only a couple of months before he got shot. Quite frankly I don’t remember anything about the man pre-assisnation. I don’t even remember hearing any of his press conferences and I was a politically active adult at that time. Have you read his biography or do you know him personally?
The reason I base my assumption that he was a gun grabber even before being shot is because usually when there is a tragedy involving guns with a 2nd amendment supporter you usually get the response that someone like Suzana Haup has upon seeing her parents gunned down in the Killeen massacre.
“I mean...taking a bullet for the president was in the job description...right?”
That would be the secret service’s job description. He was the press secretary.
Just what I’ve read. A big chunk of his brain was destroyed. He’s just a shell of a man who is being manipulated by his wife.
They, the Bradys, have no right to be mad at millions of law biding gun owners.
The only person they should be angry with is John Hinckley,
and the D.C. jurors who let him off lightly with the insanity defense.
This type of accusation is SOP from ANY organization that receives funding from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundatiom, and the Brady Bunch receives a bunch of money from RWJF.
I used to be a board member of a grassroots organization that fights smoking bans, the organization is constantly underfire as being a front group for the tobacco industry and being funded by them, by organizations funded by RWJF. Like you, we would love to enjoy such funding we are accused of, but alas the tobacco industry is not interested.
They were the first of what has become a sad trend of people desperately trying to find meaning in a senseless tragedy by getting new restrictive laws named after their loved one.
Oh, that's rich coming from this guy. Does he even realize that any dude who joins a gun-control organization is either gay or a complete pu$$y?
Oh well in that case...he can go die for all I care. John Hinckley was the one who committed the crime. They should take up their hate with him not the rest of us.
Oh, please! Oh, please! A civil suit would release the hounds of deposition! How we would love to see Brady’s books, supporters list, and officers’ salaries!
I agree. I just sent these guys a few bucks. I encourage everyone else to do the same. Link here.
This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).
It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment of any rights so secured.
Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.
Good for them! We all need to stand up and fight the gun grabbers.
May God bless these students. With students like these there is hope for America’s future. If a large percentage of students were packing there would be no campus shootings.
We have the law, we need only the honest government.
Fat chance.
It makes me sick every year when I have to pony up hundreds of dollars for my Jets season tickets, knowing that it's going into the pocket of that scumbag Woody Johnson.
Sarah Brady is a serial killer. How many women have been murdered because of the 5-day waiting period after their ex-husbands’ restraining orders expired and they were told they would be killed? How many innocents have been killed while criminals have not lost a single avenue of illegal guns to purchase? Her own husband was shot with an illegal handgun—no law on the books worldwide would have stopped Hinckley. I despise Sarah Brady.
Bwahahahahaha!
I just love it when liberal hypocrites are called out.
Inflammatory, baseless rhetoric is their stock and trade.
“Oh well in that case...he can go die for all I care.”
You are the sensitive type aren’t you?
Look, I’m totally against everything that Brady stands for, but I do not wish ill will on their members. That is the tactict of the left to wish their political enemies dead. See Bill Maher for further review...
It doesn't take a large percentage of people packing.
Merely the possiblily that someone MIGHT fight back, that is the deterrent.
In these gun-free zones, they can have confidence that nobody can
That is among the reasons I am no longer a Jets fan..........
Good question.
As an aside, Mrs. Brady herself has illegally purchased a firearm. I do not have all the details at the tip of my fingers, but sometime back she purchased a firearm for her son, in direct violation of Delaware law.
Point taken
Unfortunately, I was brainwashed from an early age and my father would disassociate himself with me if I abandoned the Jets.
Bingo. I don't believe James Brady really has anything to do with it. I think it's all Sara and James no longer has the capacity to take his own stance.
The Brady Campaign with this statement has basically just gone to the Big Oil Card(tm). And of course the loonies will listen even though no proof is brought forward.
LOL!!! My dad is a Giants fan :) Growing up in Brooklyn you were a Giants fan or a Jets fan, a Yankees fan or a Mets fan, a Knicks fan or Nets fan...........and never the twain should meet.
Though to be fair technically this was not a true violation as it was a gift for a family member, however this is the exact type of thing the Brady Campaign claims is an illegal purchase and is trying to shut down.
Thank you for refreshing my memory.
While I agree that it was not technically a violation, it does remain hypocritical, to say the least.
You da man! We’ll put it towards the “expensive penthouse” fund, being the well-funded gun lobbyists that we are...
As an aside, Mrs. Brady herself has illegally purchased a firearm. I do not have all the details at the tip of my fingers, but sometime back she purchased a firearm for her son, in direct violation of Delaware law.
Howdy Gabz! Hope all is well with you and yours!
Here's a link to an article with some info:
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241 - Conspiracy Against Rights
I think should be brought up in the Heller vs. Parker case...yes?
So far we’ve raised a combined total of $610.02, from online donations and T-shirt sales.
Howdy EdReform!!! All’s well here, hope the same for you and yours.
As to your linked article, all I can say is OUCH!!!!!!!!
And even if that were true, so what?
Gun manufacturers are rightly interested in being able to sell what they make, just as the Brady life forms are interested in seeing them go under.
If one side is wrong, so is the other.
You’d hope so...
Typical M.O....
Who supports concealed-carry? It's the people stupid. They have got to be one of the most, if not the most... amateurish organization I've ever read about.
Infantile, irresponsible, ignorance....it's just beyond words.
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