Whackos
The American Hunters and Shooters Association is getting press coverage again, this time in the Washington Post. No mention of their Executive Director Bob Ricker calling us non-hunting self-defense types Whackos. And they call NRA too absolutist. Of course, I am shocked that the article mentions that the American Hunters and Shooters Association is an anti-gun shill group:
The NRA also asserts that Schoenke’s association is a thinly veiled front for gun-control advocates, and offers as proof Schoenke’s $5,000 donation to Handgun Control Inc., predecessor to the main anti-gun lobby, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Schoenke rejects the assertion; he says he was only trying to help a cause important to his wife.
Unfortunately for Schoenke, the Brady Campaign basically agrees with the NRA. “I see our issues as complementary to theirs,” Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, says about Schoenke’s association. “They’re a positive group.”
Helmke even contends that the two organizations are not far apart in approach.
First press mention of that I’ve seen. They don’t mention that it’s a shill group designed to make Democrats look pro-gun while being anti-gun so that they can get elected.
Bitter throws down the gauntlet.
And Heller is argued today? How convenient!
