Students For Concealed Carry Lash Out At Repeated Claims Of Astroturf

By Tom Knighton

Grassroots organizations tend to come with a certain appeal for politicians. After all, these are groups that represent a groundswell of support from the real people of this country.

That’s why charges of “astroturf” are so damaging to such a group.

Yet, a while back, the Students for Concealed Carry got such a charge, and as the author seems intent on repeating it, they’ve decided to defend themselves.

Anti-Campus Carry “Journalist” Persists in Touting Conspiracy Theory About SCC

AUSTIN, TEXAS – When The Trace, the “news” arm of gun-control conglomerate Everytown for Gun Safety, published a 2015 article claiming that Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) was founded by a wealthy cabal of gun lobbyists rather than by a poor group of college students, SCC not only denied the accusation but also offered to make a $5,000 charitable donation in the name of any gun-control group that could corroborate the accusation. When nobody tried to collect, SCC considered the matter settled. Sadly, the freelance journalist who wrote the original article refuses to let the issue rest.

In 2015, Adam Weinstein, now a senior editor for military magazine Task & Purpose, was working as a stringer for The …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms