Rings Hollow

In a Recent post by Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign and of the Million Mom March, she said this:

Be careful out there. If you hunt, be safe and shoot safely. And more than anything, be responsible for your own actions while holding your gun. Bullets injure and kill birds and animals during hunting season but they can also kill and injure people.

In the comments I asked her what she recommended for safety and training coursed for new hunters and shooters looking to gain skills safely. The first comment she never approved. Then I posted it again, and she published it and said something to the effect of “Why don’t you do that on your own blog.” Then she smelled a trap and deleted both of them.

Trap I say? Yep, wonder why? Well go scan Joan’s page…go Scan the Brady Campaign websites, go check out the Million Mom March chapters.

The closest I could get was the American Hunters and Shooters, which is intrinsically connected to the Brady Campaign comes the closest to having anything remotely to do with actual firearms safety, and that is simply a re-tread of The Ten Commandments of Gun Safety, and never do they even so much as mention how, where, or why somebody might be able to, or want live-fire training.

Let’s face it these are gun-ban groups, nothing else. Why would you need firearms safety training if all guns are banned? Also you’ll note that Joan publishes incidents of hunting accidents in her posts. Gun accidents and Gun Violence are useful to these people, hence why they are so crazy about the “Gun Death” metric.

Both the Gunnies and the Antis both claim our end goals to reduce death and violence, but groups like the NRA are huge sources of safety training, as well as self-defense training. Most of us gun bloggers take an active role in inviting new shooters to expense-paid range time and safety training.

Odd that the side of the aisle that is well documented as lying seems to be lying about wanting to reduce accidental death too….and that whole idea that its OK to hunt too.