Well, when your ideology is based on misinformation . . .
it’s understandable that you’d get frustrated at the lack of progress. ABC News notes that Jim Brady is frustrated by gun control progress:
That undaunted spirit has served them well, especially in their high-profile battle for gun control. They are frustrated that in the 13 years since the Brady Bill was signed, gun control efforts have largely stalled, and they single out the party they once proudly served.
Good.
March 30th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
I would say that having the Brady’s blame your political party is pretty much affirmation that you’re on the right track at least on that topic.
March 30th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
““The Republican Party today is not what the Republican Party was 20 years ago,” Sarah Brady said. “It’s moved so far to the right.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! She’s kidding, right? The Republican party that just rubber-stamped Bush’s largest gov’t spending in history is too right wing? The Republican party that’s falling over itself to fawn over illegal immigrants is too right wing?
Gah. Please. If the Republicans appear to be moving to the far right, it’s only because the Democrats are sprinting to the far left…
March 30th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
I got the email from StoptheNRA.org today. I like this quote
Pushed by the NRA, Congress killed the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. They voted to give special legal protection to reckless gun dealers. They even weakened the background checks in the landmark Brady Law that was named in my honor even though the Brady Law has stopped 1.3 million criminals and prohibited purchasers from buying guns since it was passed in 1994. And guess what? After a steady decline in gun deaths beginning in 1994, gun deaths began going back up in 2001. Big surprise, huh?
As far as I know, nothing changed until 2004 when the sunset occured. I know Brady was shot in the head, but this is ridiculous. The above quote was preceded by
We simply must stop the flow of illegal guns into the hands of criminals so that we can end the tragic toll of gun violence in our country once and for all.
Now, what did the AWB have to do with stopping the illegal flow of guns blah blah?
March 30th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
being a victom of a young punk with a carry permit. you would think that i would like to see more gun laws, but its the other way the kid that shot me had the choice to shoot or not to shoot. The gun laws control laws had nothing to do with my shooting. if gun violence is on the rise i blame the people for the why things are. kids not being afriad to go to jail or take responsiblity for there actions.
March 30th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
The Republican Party today is not what the Republican Party was 20 years ago, Sarah Brady said. Its moved so far to the right.
She’s just about 15 years off. Richard Nixon created the Enviromental Protection Racket, I mean Agency, imposed wage & price controls in peacetime for the first time, expanded the federal government in many other ways, and made friends with Chinese Communist thugs with more blood on their hands than Hitler. The Republican party has definitely moved right from that – but it did so under Reagan.
“the Democrats are sprinting to the far left”: partly true. Part of them were already there in 1972, enough to nominate McGovern. Enough that Nixon felt he had to spy on the Democratic headquarters because they couldn’t possibly be planning to alienate most of the American people and hand Nixon a landslide reelection, but that’s exactly what they did. (Nixon would have done just fine if he had called a press conference before the election and told the American public that he had made a little mistake in handing out bags of $100 bills for burglary and wiretapping services. Maybe he’d have only won by 65% instead of 70%, but he’d be impeachment-proof after proving to most of Congress that he could confess to a crime and still be more popular than them in their own districts.)
The moderate Democrats made a bit of a comeback after McGovern, but the wingnuts have been wearing them down ever since – some have been forced out, some retired or died, some sprinted to the left for survival within their own party. E.g, Jimmy Carter was supposed to be a moderate in 1976, now he’s a wingnut who never met a Commie he didn’t like and approves of grossly crooked elections provided a socialist wins. Many Democratic politicians have developed the talent of two-facedness to a remarkable extent: they are moderate in front of a moderate audience, raving leftists in front of a wingnut audience, they can schmooze with gun nuts and pretend to hunt in between rushing back to Washington to vote for every gun control measure that comes along. Too bad for the latter group that bloggers will drag their two-faced behavior out into the open….
March 30th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
I always thought that James Brady was nothing more than a puppet with his wifes hand up his ass making him talk.