Editorial: ‘Stand Your Ground’ Gives Law-Abiding Citizens Too Many Options
The Minnesota Tribune ran an editorial which criticized Stand Your Ground laws for giving too many options to law-abiding citizens.

The Minnesota Tribune ran an editorial which criticized Stand Your Ground laws for giving too many options to law-abiding citizens.

Sources who previously worked for Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts describe her in not-so-idyllic terms like “self-promoting tyrant.”

Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety tweeted on April 30 that President Donald Trump’s decision to remove Vivek Murthy from the position of Surgeon General was an attack on gun safety.

Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety and Gabby Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) are vowing to “spend what it takes” to defeat the national reciprocity legislation currently being considered by Congress.

During an April 16 appearance on MSNBC, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts suggested “caring Americans” support gun control, while others support or at least tolerate “the gun lobby.”

Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is pledging $25 million to fight the passage of National Reciprocity for concealed carry and to defeat pro-Second Amendment members of Congress in 2018.

Micheal Bloomberg-backed Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety have dug in and are fighting passage of laws that would allow students with concealed carry permits to carry guns for self-defense in Florida, Georgia, and Iowa.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox issued an opinion halting the City of Missoula’s expanded background check ordinance on the grounds that they violate state law and “cannot be enforced.”

On December 28, Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt issued an opinion blocking the implementation of the universal background checks Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety secured via a “narrowly approved” November 8 ballot initiative.

Just more than two weeks after the election of pro-Second Amendment Donald Trump, Hollywood and gun control groups are full steam ahead on plans to use television and movies to change Americans’ minds on gun control.

A gun control initiative that would expand background checks to all private gun sales in Nevada also portends something else: The “Californication of Nevada.”

On September 14 Missouri lawmakers in the House and Senate overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) veto of SB 656, thereby recognizing the Second Amendment as the only carry permit law-abiding Missourians need.

In response to the social media outrage over celebrities pushing gun control while making millions using guns on camera, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety stresses that Hollywood “gunplay and real-life violence are not as intertwined as today’s tweet storms suggest.”
On Friday, the Kardashian sisters–Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe–met with family members of gun violence victims at an event sponsored by Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action.

Amy Schumer tweeted a partially nude photo of herself on Thursday to celebrate the #WearOrange push for more gun control on National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

Director Spike Lee joined gun control activists Wednesday morning to flip a switch that bathed the Empire State Building in orange light in honor of National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

Hollywood celebrities donned orange outfits for “gun safety” and tweeted support for more gun laws on Thursday as part of the #WearOrange campaign promoted by gun control groups including Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action.

MTV has launched a new media campaign geared toward millennial voters in the 2016 presidential election with support from numerous progressive organizations including Planned Parenthood and Everytown for Gun Safety.

Proponents of more gun control for American citizens are frequently people who live their lives surrounded by good guys with guns. Moreover, gun control proponents are also people who use tragedies as an opportunity to push more gun laws even when said laws would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy that occurred.

Micheal Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is funding a push to bring failed California gun controls to Maine.

Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety is running ads against permitless carry legislation in Missouri, arguing that removing concealed permit requirements will lead to more criminals carrying guns. In other words, criminals will be more apt to carry if they

On May 9 — less than two years since universal background checks were hoisted onto the backs of law-abiding citizens in Washington state — Gabby Giffords was in the state campaigning for special protective orders that will allow firearm confiscation.

On May 5 Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts wrote an op-ed in which she suggested that fighting to take away gun rights is dangerous work.

On May 3 Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) took the action Everytown for Gun Safety had urged by vetoing campus carry legislation that had been on his desk for over a month.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) urged the passage of campus carry legislation on February 26 and now has 3 days left to sign the legislation into law.

Hollywood executives, actors, and actresses are increasingly involved in pushing the message of the gun control lobby, Variety magazine reported April 26.

On March 14, Journey United Methodist Church held an “educational seminar” on gun control in partnership with Nevadans for Background Checks. The seminar was attended by “20 or so congregants.”

The Michael Bloomberg-funded group, Everytown for Gun Safety, is running a 30-second television ad in Georgia, urging residents to ask their state senators to oppose gun rights on college campuses.

On February 26, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) turned his back to Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety and signed legislation restoring Virginia concealed carry reciprocity with 25 states.

Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords met with Oregon “law enforcement leaders” at the YWCA in Portland on Friday to contend that the universal background checks instituted last year and the closure of the “gun show loophole” in 2000 are not enough; more gun control for Oregon is needed now.

Comic Jackie Mason says that if Michael Bloomberg is serious about gun control, he should disarm the 12 bodyguards who hedge in his every move.

On February 9, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety took out a full page ad criticizing Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) for reversing Attorney General Mark Herring’s (D) decision to end concealed carry reciprocity with 25 states.

Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun, but not to drive a car. During a conference with First Lady Michelle Obama, actress Julianne Moore indicated that she wants to change that.

Despite past support, Everytown for Gun Safety has now turned the table on Governor Terry McAufiffe (D) because of his decision to reverse a majority gun control win in Virginia.

If the push for the ballot initiative to expand background checks in Nevada has demonstrated anything, it’s that the push is driven by out-of-state consulting and messaging firms—D.C. firms in particular—and an influx of Michael Bloomberg’s money, albeit it indirectly.

On January 28 Breitbart News reported that Governor Terry McAuliffe would announce plans to reverse Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s decision to cut concealed carry reciprocal agreements with 25 states. On January 29 Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety came

Gun control proponents pushing a November ballot initiative to expand background checks in Nevada are largely being “bankrolled” by Everytown for Gun Safety, which is bankrolled by gun control proponent Michael Bloomberg.

Sources close to gun-grabber Michael Bloomberg indicate the former New York Mayor is thinking about entering the race for the presidency and is willing to spend $1 billion to win the White House.

When Katie Couric’s gun control documentary, Under the Gun, debuted at Sundance on January 24, one thing was clear: Couric forewent any attempts at political balance.

On January 6, the NRA declined an invitation to attend President Obama’s CNN town hall, describing the event at a “PR spectacle orchestrated by the White House.”
