Posted August 20, 2019 9:00 am by Comments

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/John Minchillo

Gun control advocates love to claim that gun owners are “fearmongers”. In their view the NRA “peddles fear” in order to drive up gun sales and gun ownership; either fear of being the victim of a violent crime, or the fear of more gun control. This quote from Everytown for Gun Safety’s federal media relations manager (in a HuffPost story alleging the NRA traffics in anti-Semitism) sums up the typical attack pretty well.

″[The NRA’s] leaders peddle conspiracy theories, fuel hatred and traffic in dog-whistle politics in order to incite fear and sell more guns,” Zucker said in a statement to HuffPost. “The NRA’s rhetoric has reached a dangerous new low, and Americans have had enough.”

I’ve noticed recently that gun control groups seem to be doing a lot of fear-mongering of their own. Everytown’s own website alerts visitors to the “unprecedented levels of gun violence” in this country, though violent crime has dropped dramatically across the United States since the early 1990s. Brady, meanwhile is featuring this video on their website.

The video’s message of”You shouldn’t have to send your child to school …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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