At least one leftie blogger is sorely pissed at Candle and a Pic. Rick has branded us as The Westboro Baptist Church Of Gun Enthusiasts because we don’t buy the Bradys Candleilght Dance Over Corpses. I did love the quote:
I’m not sure what GFZ is expecting from an organization that is about “enacting and enforcing sensible regulations to reduce gun violence.”
I am sure that Rick is unaware of the history of the Brady Campaign and their chameleon-like changes in order to be more “palatable” to the American public. From the original National Council to Ban Handguns to Handgun Control, Inc to the latest version called The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, they changed their “goals” but never their objectives: Gun Control and eventually the ban of all firearms from private possession. As the founder of NCBG/HCI/Brady Nelson T. (Pete) Shields, III said:
“I’m convinced that we have to have Federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily–given the political realities–going to be very modest … Our ultimate goal–total control of handguns in the United States–is going to take time … The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered, and the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns, and all handgun ammunition totally illegal.”
That is why we never bought the alleged “sensible regulations to reduce gun violence” because they were never interested in going to the source of violence known as criminals. Oh yes! Let’s have marches in front of gun shops but they never had the nuts to march in front of drug corners or shoot houses.
Rick is even pissed because this sensitive and emotional testimony is aimed to remember Congresswoman Gabby Giffords who was shot a year ago. Lots of celebrities (OK mostly former celebrities) and other “chic” people are gonna attend… lots of people except Gabby Giffords. Still one year after her shooting, the Bradys have not been able to drag her in front of a camera to denounce the NRA. But the Bradys and Rick have no qualms in using her name and the memory of the victims for a desperate fundraising because they are bankrupt!They are even selling their mailing list on line for Pete’s sake!
They are so broke that the total amount of political contributions for the last elections was $3,600(or the price of three Colt AR rifles) When the were something still like back in 2000, they shelled $363,114 in campaign contributions.
They know they are on their way out, they just some cash to build their golden parachute, that’s all.
Police say Hernandez was within his legal rights to fire the shots. “It’s a constitutional right in this country to carry a firearm,” said Zabaleta. “If you do carry a firearm and you are permitted to, then you are allowed to use it if in fact you feel that your life is in danger.”
Today, The Brady Campaign wants you to light a candle for the Americans victims of Gun Violence. They don’t want you to light a candle for Non-Americans or everybody who was not subject to gun violence. They don’t care about any other kind of violence because it is not about the violence but about guns and how to control people.
So I lit a candle for my own reasons and here they are:
I Lit My Candle for Yue Kui Cen. He was attacked in a robbery by a nutjob with a hammer at his store in Little Havana. He was unarmed, he did not offer resistance as the “expert” tells us to do and yet received six blows to the head that put him in a hospital in a coma. Brady doesn’t give a crap about him because there was no gun involved. The candle is also lit for all those who followed the “do not offer resistance” and died doing so. Their families might miss them dearly, but the Brady Campaign are proud they took the “high moral road” and were maimed or died for their cause.
I Lit My Candle for Liviu Librescu. He was a professor at Virginia Tech and a Holocaust Survivor. When Seung-Chu Hoi attempted to enter his class to kill, he used his body to block the entrance, got shot and died saving his students. Yet the hero of VT according to Brady was not him but Andrew Goddard who was hiding under a desk, in fear, doing nothing till he got shot by Hoi. Now he “atones” for his “actions” by being the mouthpiece of the Bradys.
I Lit My Candle for Brianna Denison. She was raped and murdered by James Biela, a serial rapist-turned murderer. Biela’s victim before Brianna Denison was Amanda Collins who even though she had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, she was not armed because she was in the parking garage of the University of Nevada Reno where no guns are allowed “in order to keep everybody safe.” In March 2011, Amanda testified in front of Nevada’s Senate Government Affairs Committee and said: “I know at some point during my attack I could have stopped it. Had I been able to do so, two other rapes would have been prevented and a life could have been saved.”
I Lit My Candle for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and over 200 Mexicans. On December 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by two Mexican Drug Cartel gunmen with weapons provided by the US Government via Operation Fast & Furious. More than 200 deaths in Mexico have been directly linked to guns provided by this Department of Justice program. Yet, to this day, we have not heard from any kind of outrage from the Brady Campaign save a small apologist blurb in defense of the Administration. Hypocrisy is strong with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Unless The Guns Come From The Government And Only Kills Non-Americas Or Americans We Cannot Use In Our Campaign.
Quote of the Day by Brigid: “but tomorrow is the day the Brady Bunch plan a light a candle to stop gun violence (that’s what I’m going to pull out when some potential gangbanger rapist confronts me in a parking lot, a f’ing candle.”)
Qoute of the Day 2 by Linoge: “One interesting side-effect from not making this distinction is that by holding their candle-light vigils for “victims of ‘gun violence’”, the Brady Campaign and their sycophants are, by definition, memorializing those murderers, rapists, thieves, muggers, robbers, home-invaders, and other scumbags who were shot down in self-defense by their intended victims, or by the police in the execution of their duties.”
Other Candles Lit by fellow Gun Bloggers & Followers.
(Feel free to add your pic in the comments. Links will work too & I’ll add them to the post. Make sure to link to Weer’s site Kudos goes to him for the idea that has caught fire [pun intended] among Gun Bloggers)
Dear Ladd: We all know that your experience with gun is basically what you see in the movies so sit down and pay attention at the following, OK?
When we carry in the streets, we don’t blow your loved ones, unless of course your loved ones are criminals that are trying to do us harm and then they become fair game under the law.
Next, again when we carry a loaded gun in the streets, we do so in holsters or other devices and nobody but the owner manipulates the weapon. At a Gun Show things are a bit different: the guns brought in are for sale and part of that transaction is for the buyers to do a function check and a ergonomic check on the gun to see it it works & feels properly, much like taking a car for a quick spin before buying it or wielding a hammer at a Home Depot before heading for the register. So it makes sense to make sure over and over that a firearm is unloaded since a buyer might not be familiar with the operation of a particular gun. I know, according to you and the Press if it is a short gun, it has to be a Glock and if it is a long gun, it has to be an AK-47 but there are many different types of guns out there other than those two and they ll have their individual quirks and characteristics. And that is why it is safer to attend a Gun Show than walking the streets of D.C or NY or Chicago.
I think a big factor in the disappearance of support for gun control is generational, namely that subsequent generations don’t harbor as many racial and xenophobic anxieties as previous generations. Whether our opponents want to admit it or not, much of the nations gun control was prompted by these anxieties among political elites
Back way then when I got into the Gun Rights melee, the NAACP and other minorities groups were backing up the Clinton Administration who were pretty vocal about banning guns, how Evil Gun Makers were targeting the Ghetto with cheap guns and how minorities should be gun free…. which was a message that the Ku Klux Klan totally agreed with.
Never forget that Gun Control Laws in the US started and developed to keep the guns from the “undesirables”: They started against the Freed Slaves, Chinese,Irish, Italians, Latinos. Then the powers that be realized that having everybody under control was much more fun and efficient. They do not like that we are fast recovering our rights are not going gently into that night but they are going.
