Aurora Theater Victim’s Family Feels Left Behind By Gun Control Groups

By Tom Knighton

Gun control groups like to present themselves as being all about the victims of gun violence. They call pro-gun voices heartless while holding up the victims’ families as props to advance their agendas, but we’re heartless because we won’t give up our ground for gun control.

However, the family of a victim in the Aurora theater shooting told Buzzfeed News a very different tale recently.

The last two years have been some of the most significant for the anti–gun violence movement. The 2018 election cycle marked the first in which the National Rifle Association was outspent by gun control groups, which have also had significant state-level successes.

But as the Phillipses reel in the wake of another brutal shooting, they believe the gun control movement and the big organizations that lead it, including Everytown for Gun Safety and the Brady Campaign, need to recenter. In their eyes, if anti–gun violence activists are ever going to be successful, they need to do more to build national support and reassess how they treat survivors.

“Here’s the deal: We really don’t have a true grassroots gun violence prevention movement in this country,” Lonnie said. “It’s not a true movement, in the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms