Moms Demand Action Leader Lies About Group’s Purpose

By Tom Knighton

Ah, what I would give for a noble adversary.

I don’t mind people disagreeing with me. I mind them being jerks about it, but disagreement? Nope. Not at all. No one is going to agree with me on everything, so why bother getting worked up over it? Clearly, not everyone thinks this way, and I suppose that’s OK too. After all, isn’t that just another disagreement?

What I don’t like, however, is when someone tries to use language to manipulate people into supporting them and their ideas. It’s dishonest in the extreme. Yet that’s precisely what one Moms Demand Action leader went on the record doing.

It was no coincidence that the Lakeland chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America met precisely on the anniversary of the July 20, 2012, shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people died and 70 others were injured.

Group leader Leander Aulisio of Lakeland said he wanted to make one thing clear to the small group gathered around a large coffee table in the Mitchell’s Coffee House meeting room.

“We never talk about gun control,” Aulisio said. “We talk about gun violence prevention. Gun control is for somebody …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms