” According to the Violence Policy Center, “
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Their website: http://www.vpc.org/ is typically silent about the leadership and dollars.
A check of Wimped indicates the Director is one Josh Sugarman, who was involved in Amnesty International and Hangup Control http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sugarmann
A heavy financier of this outfit is a group called the “Joyce Foundation” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Foundation
one of whose goody-two shoes executives was involved in “cultural affairs” in the Chicago area.
I understand Wikipedia is a questionable source, but here it has its uses.
There is an ominous nexus between pacifists, pacifist-oriented churches and clerics. “cultural relativists”, anti-Americans, far left Democrats, “fiscal conservatives
(one-issue conservatives” and the anit-Second Amendment movement. Frequently Hollywood “stars” and entertainment executives are also involved.
I think EXPOSING these people, their backgrounds and philosophies is a productive goal in fighting these groups.
They prefer to operate under a shelter of anonymity as they know many of their executives and contributors might not be popular with the average American and others - like main stream churches, might find their members taking exception to their church contributions being used in this fashion.
Another executive in the Violence Policy Center is an attorney and Democrat operative, one Tom Diaz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Diaz