I’ll give the liberal “Moderate Voice” credit for using the words “gun control” in his blog, A Gun Control Network to Rival the NRA. I guess he didn’t get Bloomberg’s memo, they’re supposed to say “gun safety” nowadays.
But the following paragraph is beyond ridiculous:
Everytown for Gun Control [sic] already has 1.5 million members from the previous groups, and Bloomberg is hoping to bring another million on board. The NRA has 5 million members, but many of them actually joined in recent years. Following the Sandy Hook shooting the NRA actually grew by 250,000 people in a single month. Given all of the press gun control has gotten lately, Everytown for Gun Control could grow at a similarly rapid rate. The group will first try to gain members from places where gun control measures have recently passed, such as Colorado and Washington state.
Source: http://themoderatevoice.com/193763/a-gun-control-network-to-rival-the-nra/
Here’s why TheModerateVoice is wrong.
1. Are these 1.5 million dues paying members? Because Likes on Facebook don’t count as such, you can buy those online.
2. The NRA grew without the bully pulpit evil gun haters enjoy
3. We’ve recalled one of the Democrats who voted against guns in Colorado, in spite of Bloomberg supporting him financially
4. If Everytown for Gun Control is so powerful, why do they need Bloomberg’s money? I don’t remember the last time a celebrity donated $50 million to the NRA, do you? Yet our 5 million members have raised far more than $50 million. The basic $25 membership time 5 million equals $125 million. And that’s not counting the monthly donations many NRA members make, anywhere from $5 to as much as $100 or more a month. We’re not billionaires, but Bloomberg is not outspending us yet.
5. Support for gun control has actually fallen since Sandy Hook. When emotions cool down, people use their brains and realize gun control solves nothing. This is why Obama and his commies don’t like letting a tragedy go to waste, they like to strike while the iron is hot, and we like to delay them as much as possible, and then destroy them.
6. The press is worth squat. What press? Today anyone with an Internet connection can have a blog. You think the average American cares what Maureen Dowd has to say? My hometown newspaper is dominated by liberals yet on Facebook, the pro-gun comments outnumber the anti-gun comments. Today the flow of information is not limited by the liberal media. Andrew Breitbart made a career doing the stories the liberal media wouldn’t cover. The Drudge Report exposed the Lewinsky scandal after Newsweek backed down.
Besides, the press doesn’t want to cover gun control everyday, they don’t like the angry phone calls, the newspaper cancellations, the loss of ratings. Look at CNN, did they not fire Piers Morgan? If gun control was such a hot topic surely his ratings would have been amazing. Instead, CNN has to cover some plane crashing into the ocean for 2-weeks to get ratings.
WE actually recalled TWO politicians in Colorado. One being the Majority Leader of the State Legislature and forced another to resign by collecting more than enough signatures for a recall of her too! Just for the record.
Thanks for correcting the record, I forget stuff sometimes.