[Pharmboy]

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as it happens, is one of the groups that is suing the gun makers, and Dennis Henigan, its legal director in Washington, did not like Mr. Bane's quip at all. "I find the quote just outrageous and insulting," he said. "To compare us in any way to the Ku Klux Klan, to me, it just suggests an increasing desperation on the part of the gun industry."

No Dennis--it is an appropriate comparison. Neither you nor the KKK respect individual rights and you are both extremists. Live with it.

This is quite interesting, eh? A non-negative article on the gun industry by the Times. Has hell frozen over?

[Pharmboy]

What's next for the Times? An interview with Eddie Eagle?

Many interesting things brought up in this article, for example, the inclusiveness of the gunners.

[SevenDaysInMay]

As we defend ourselves against those who would murder us, gun nazis will be set back 40 years or more. The disarmed will have a death toll equal to or exceeding the armed citizens from this Pan-Islamic/Chinese axis of evil. Gun free zones make our enemies' attacks that much lower cost, for our enemies. Ordinary perps will find their peculiar line of work hazardous.

[mewzilla]

Heck hasn't frozen over. The Grey Lady had dropped her drawers for the Left way too many times and is now desperate for readers. When you think about it, this story is more of an insult to our intelliegnce, really. As if the NYT would really clean up its act....

[Libertarian_4_eva]

Has hell frozen over?

I just looked out my window and I can see four oddly dressed men in tattered armor with scrolls in their hands on the streetcorner. I have no idea who they are but to me they shure as hell do not look like the pimps I see every other time I lookout the window!

[TC Rider]

"To compare us in any way to the Ku Klux Klan, to me, it just suggests an increasing desperation on the part of the gun industry."

Let's try this one, 'Calling the Brady people on guns, is like calling Stalin for info on Freedom of the press', or 'Calling Brady on guns is like calling Nazis on religious rights'.

"That is probably the case, but no more than journalists are conversant on other dangerous products," he said.

Nice little slam there, Brady boy

"The mistake, though, would be to turn to the gun industry for that information rather than other sources, because they have their own profit-motivated bias."

And what motivates the Bradys? I suspect some are profit-motivated, after all their 'eternal' struggle, like the NAALCP does pay the rent. For most I suspect a Socialist agenda that includes disarming America.

[TC Rider]

This is quite interesting, eh? A non-negative article on the gun industry by the Times. Has hell frozen over?

Still totally toasty I'm sure, gotta have a warm seat for the management of the Times and the Brady's.

I'm sure the editors like at least one story a year like this, it keeps them 'balanced' against the hundred anti-gun stories they'll publish.

[Zon]

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as it happens, is one of the groups that is suing the gun makers

Sarah Brady, please explain how an inanimate object can harm a person. Perhaps you could start by explaining how a rock can hurt a person and progress to explain how a boot can hurt a person.  Then explain how a drug can hurt a person. Then you could move on to explain how a gun can hurt a person.

Or will you concede that an inanimate object in and of itself cannot harm a person.

inanimate: 1 : not animate: a : not endowed with life or spirit b : lacking consciousness or power of motion
2 : not animated or lively :

[FreedomPoster]

"I got a kick out of shooting, and I'm thinking of getting one," she said. "I want to get one. I really do."

Take a non-shooter to the range today. Even if they're leftists. If they don't get a big doofy grin on their face, the first time they manage to put lead on the target, they probably aren't people you want to spend any time around. You'll probably make a convert.

[tubebender]

"... but she liked a cute little number from Smith & Wesson called the LadySmith. "

Uh... does thus mean I can come out of the closet and admit I have a Lady Smith in the safe? (and it's not that little)

[IronJack]

Now if we could just convince Bland Blather, Repete Jennings, and Tom-tom Brokjaw to pick up a gun (under supervision at their local range, of course!), then the people giving us the "facts" about guns might have the slightest basis on which to evaluate the credibility of those "facts."

Sarah Brady is hopeless, as are Feinswein and Schemer. If ignorance is bliss, they are the happiest folks on earth.

[Tennessee_Bob]

I'm surprised. I would have thought that there would have been at least one evil-minded gun that jumped up and shot everybody.

[Shooter 2.5]

"I find the quote just outrageous and insulting," he said. "To compare us in any way to the Ku Klux Klan, to me, it just suggests an increasing desperation on the part of the gun industry."

The quote from the gun owners was correct. The Brady campaign continues to disarm law-abiding minorities in the crime filled cities in order to push their agenda. The Brady's would rather see a Black with a noose around his neck than see his family armed. Jim Crow Laws were the start of gun control.

[American Preservative]

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[an amused spectator]

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as it happens, is one of the groups that is suing the gun makers, and Dennis Henigan, its legal director in Washington, did not like Mr. Bane's quip at all. "I find the quote just outrageous and insulting," he said. "To compare us in any way to the Ku Klux Klan, to me, it just suggests an increasing desperation on the part of the gun industry."

Actually, the Ku Klux Klan was notorious for its support of gun control - for blacks. Michigan's highly restrictive CCW law, which was replaced by "shall-issue" last year, was lobbied for by the Ku Klux Klan.

I'll note something else:

The gun control laws are strongest on the big city Liberal Planatations, where blacks are concentrated.

Maybe we should be investigating the ties between Dennis Henigan's Brady Center and the Ku Klux Klan after all... ;-)

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In 1925 a white mob in Detroit attacked the home of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black physician who had just moved into an all-white neighborhood.1 The situation got out of hand, even though a dozen police officers were present who cordoned off the area. Shots were fired, both from the mob and from the house, and one member of the mob was killed. The police stormed the house and arrested everyone in the house, including Dr. Sweet's brother Henry. Judge Frank Murphy released Mrs. Sweet on bail but everyone else was put on trial for murder. Clarence Darrow came to town to assume responsibility for the defense. After a seven-week trial, Judge Murphy ruled that a verdict could not be reached and declared a mistrial.

The prosecutor decided to re-try Henry Sweet, who had freely admitted that he had fired a gun. Darrow took the view that this was justifiable self defense, and the second all-white jury, after only three hours of deliberation, declared Henry Sweet not guilty.

The Ku Klux Klan subsequently lobbied the Legislature and in 1927 won the passage of PA 372, which gave local county gun boards discretionary authority to grant concealed carry licenses only to those who in their opinion had a need to defend themselves. The gun boards were comprised of the county prosecutor, the sheriff, and a representative from the Michigan State Police. This "may issue" law gave wide latitude to the gun boards, and resulted in practices varying from issuance only to police officers and friends and political supporters of the board to a few counties where every honest person could obtain a concealed carry license. Thus the origin of the 1927 "carry concealed weapons (CCW)" law was pure racism.

www.mcrgo.org/pdf/MCPP_essay_on_MCRGO.doc
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