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Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun prohibition lobbying group created and supported by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, asks recipients of an email blast sent Friday to answer three questions and help “put an end to the NRA.”
Everytown, like the establishment media, seems locked forever in the mindset that the National Rifle Association is the only gun rights organization on the landscape. In reality, if the NRA suddenly disappears, other gun groups are already on the front lines of Second Amendment activism.
The questionnaire wants to know if the recipient is ready to “mobilize and fight back in every community across the country” and why the recipient decided to “become a part of the movement to end gun violence.”
But the real thrust is in the first question. Everytown for Gun Safety wants to know, “What gun lobby legislation being debated in statehouses across the country makes you most concerned?
The checklist includes permitless carry, punishing local governments for passing gun safety laws, arming teachers, and repealing background checks. In addition they added Stand-Your-Ground, prohibiting local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun safety laws, allowing reckless firearm intimidation, concealed carry reciprocity and/or open carry.
They really want to know whether the recipient opposes Constitutional Carry, state preemption laws, and armed teachers trained to protect students in an emergency. But the list doesn’t end there. They also grill the readers as to where they stand on self-defense, Second Amendment sanctuaries, carrying firearms at political rallies, and the ability to carry concealed from one state to another.
It doesn’t matter whether any shooting incidents have happened at schools with armed teachers, nor does it explain that some school districts are ceasing having armed school resource officers from local sheriffs or police departments on campus.
And Everytown clearly wants to dismantle state preemption statutes that have provided uniformity in gun regulation for many years.
It probably should not be surprising for a gun control group to launch such an effort. With the anti-gun Biden administration in trouble with voters—the newest Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking poll shows Joe Biden continuing to plummet—and the likelihood Congress will flip to Republican control next year, gun prohibitionists are scrambling to accomplish what they can in the time remaining.
There is also the likelihood the U.S. Supreme Court may strike down the concept of discretionary issue of concealed carry licenses next year.
Rasmussen’s survey released Friday shows Biden’s 57 percent disapproval rating against a 42 percent approval. But there is more. Only 21 percent of likely voters strongly approve of Biden’s job performance, while a whopping 49 percent strongly disapprove.
The next 12 months could provide opponents of the 2nd Amendment with their final chance to push their extreme gun control agenda, and they will likely try to make the most of it.
EXPERT GUESTS AVAILABLE TO INTERVIEW ON THIS TOPIC:
ABOUT CAM EDWARDS (In Eastern Time)
Cam Edwards is the editor at Bearing Arms-dot-com and hosts the popular podcast Cam & Company that focuses on Second Amendment news and information. Cam is originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and has worked in radio, television, and online media for over two decades. He currently lives on a small farm with his family near Farmville, Virginia, and is a member of the board of Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms.
ABOUT LEE WILLIAMS
Lee Williams is also known as The Gun Writer and been writing about the Second Amendment, firearms, the firearms industry, and the gun culture for more than ten years. He is the Chief Editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Reporting Project and is a frequent contributor to Ammoland News and Armed American Radio. In addition, he serves as a board member of Florida Carry, Inc. He was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming a newspaper editor, Lee was an investigative reporter in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. Lee has earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter as well as three medals of valor as a police officer.
ABOUT MARK WALTERS (in Eastern Time):
Mark Walters is a member of the board of directors for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. As a nationally syndicated host of two talk radio programs, Armed American Radio and Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense, Mark is heard on hundreds of stations weekly across the country. Mark is the co-founder of Armed American News, and is the recipient of the 2015 Gun Rights Defender of the Year award. In addition, Mark Walters is co-author of three books, including Lessons from Armed America, Lessons from Unarmed America, and Grilling While Armed.
ABOUT STEPHEN WILLEFORD (In Central Time):
A native of Sutherland Springs, Texas, Stephen Willeford gained national acclaim after helping stop the deadliest mass shooting in the history of Texas in November 2017. Stephen has become known across the country as the “good guy with a gun.”
An experienced professional plumber, Stephen earned his license from the Plumbers and Pipefitters Apprenticeship School in San Antonio and has nearly 35 years of experience in his field. In 2018, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Stephen to serve on the Texas Private Security Board. He served as an assistant scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America. Stephen has been married to Pam Farmer Willeford for 30 years. They have three children and three grandchildren.
ABOUT DAVE WORKMAN (In Pacific Time):
Dave Workman is an award-winning career journalist and senior editor of TheGunMag.com. He also writes for Liberty Park Press, Conservative Firing Line. He is the communications director for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He has authored Op-Ed pieces in several major newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and co-authored seven books with Second Amendment Foundation Alan Gottlieb. Workman’s beat is firearms, from politics to the outdoors. He is widely considered an authority on firearms, concealed carry, and gun politics.
ABOUT CHRIS CHENG (In Pacific Time)
Chris Cheng serves on the advisory council to the Second Amendment Foundation’s Board of Trustees and is the History Channel’s Top Shot Season 4 Champion and author of the book “Shoot to Win.” Cheng is an Asian D&I advocate in the gun community, a former Google employee who went from self-taught amateur to pro shooter.
ABOUT ALAN GOTTLIEB (In Pacific Time/ TV interviews only):
Alan Gottlieb is chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union. A strong advocate of defense, Alan is the publisher of Gun Week, and is a nuclear engineering graduate of the University of Tennessee.
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing, and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to own and possess firearms privately. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 700,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed better to inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
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