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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.

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 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.

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.”

During a January 4 press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest cited debunked Everytown for Gun Safety statistics as one of the reasons behind President Obama’s decision to move forward with executive gun control.

On Christmas Day, the NBA will be running Everytown for Gun Safety gun-control ads, featuring Golden State Warriors’s Stephen Curry, Los Angeles Clippers’s Chris Paul, New York Knicks’s Carmelo Anthony, and Chicago Bulls’s Joakim Noah.

Julianne Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Amy Schumer, and other Hollywood celebrities joined President Obama in a post-San Bernardino gun control video produced by Everytown for Gun Safety.

On November 12 a CBS News report focused on Everytown for Gun Safety’s efforts to secure more gun control revealed that President Obama has “assigned White House lawyers” to look for a way that executive action can be used to expand background checks to include private gun sales or at least some sales by private gun owners.

The Trace ran a story pointing to the fact that George H.W. Bush quit the NRA in 1995, thereby setting an example that any of the current five million NRA members can follow if they too want to avoid being tied to the group.

On October 28 Julianne Moore used a Huffington Post blog to expound on her new position with Everytown for Gun Safety and to claim that “a majority of gun owners” want more gun control.

Various gun control groups are partnering with Black Lives Matter in an effort to push gun control in Congress, Politico reports. It is the latest partnership for Black Lives Matter, which is also working with the radical Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

On October 13, People magazine reported that actress Julianne Moore launched a gun control group under the auspices of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, then began calling fellow actors and actresses and entreating them to join the group.

During the October 4 airing of CNN’s State of the Union, gun control proponent Mark Kelly reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting by calling for an expansion of the same background checks that the Oregon gunman passed to get his weapons.

On September 10 Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) attended the #WhateverItTakes gun control rally with an armed guard by his side.

On September 10, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) attended a rally with the father of slain Virginia reporter Alison Parker and called for Congress to pass background check legislation now, even though background checks became the law of the land during the Bill Clinton administration and Alison’s killer—Vester Lee Flanagan—passed one for the gun he used in his attack.

Andy Parker–father of slain Virginia reporter Alison Parker–will be joining Everytown for Gun Safety and Shannon Watts for a gun control rally in Washington DC on September 10.

According to the FBI, August 2015 was the biggest August on record for background checks for gun purchases.

Like a sledge hammer falling on a glass table, Duke Researcher Chris Conover has dropped scholarly methods and results on the anti-gun rhetoric regarding gun ownership versus car ownership to show that owning a car is “80 percent” riskier than owning a gun, as it relates to the lives of others.

In the wake of the heinous attack captured during a live TV interview on August 26, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety says the incident provides them with “opportunity” in that they now have a snippet that can serve as their “own Eric Garner video.”