{"id":16158,"date":"2019-11-22T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=16158"},"modified":"2019-11-22T06:38:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:38:45","slug":"16158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=16158","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Know the Opposition: Everytown for Gun Safety<\/a><\/p>\n

New York City\/United States \u2013 <\/strong>-(AmmoLand.com<\/a>)
\nThe one group at the forefront of trying to take away our right to keep and bear arms today is perhaps the best-funded such group in history. Despite the attempt to have a grass-roots name, this is a group largely funded by Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor currently running for president.<\/p>\n

The Everytown group, which counts Moms Demand Action as its force of grass-roots activists, is proving to be very potent. It\u2019s not hard. Bloomberg\u2019s money has been able to provide a sustained grassroots force that past groups like the Brady Campaign and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence haven\u2019t been able to really build.<\/p>\n

Backed by Bloomberg\u2019s billions, Everytown simply will flood a state with wall-to-wall TV advertising. In addition, Bloomberg\u2019s group has a director of \u201ccultural engagement<\/a>.\u201d In short, if you want to know why the\u00a0social stigmatization<\/a>\u00a0of gun ownership and support for the Second Amendment has taken off, this is the group to thank for it. The fact of the matter is that Bloomberg\u2019s gun-control empire is re-shaping the political landscape \u2013 and not in favor of those who support liberty.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg\u2019s resources have been a huge game-changer. For the longest time, the biggest strength that pro-Second Amendment groups had was the NRA\u2019s ability to mobilize thousands of grass-roots supporters in a Congressional district to do all of the little things \u2013 really, Democracy 101 stuff \u2013 that either supported candidates or who helped educate the public in the legislative and political arenas.<\/p>\n

The fight is now\u00a0a full-spectrum fight<\/a>. Bloomberg has managed to fuse an offensive on not just the political and legislative fronts, but he also leverages Hollywood, and he leverages \u201cresearch\u201d into gun violence as a public health problem. While the Violence Policy Center long pushed that, Bloomberg has again packaged it in a form that is delivered by Moms Demand Action.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that this full-spectrum fight is also being waged with\u00a0a long-term plan<\/a>\u00a0in mind. He is not only an incredibly wealthy anti-Second Amendment extremist, he also is very strategically and tactically astute \u2013 far more so than we\u2019ve seen from other anti-Second Amendment groups in the past. Just how good is Everytown\u2019s strategic acuity?<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s put it this way, the Brady Campaign was dangerous because it used emotional stories well, and it sought to separate gun owners from the NRA \u2013 it passed legislation, it made gains, but it was primarily media-driven. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence had more of a religious fervor, but it wasn\u2019t as effective, given its past push for outright gun bans. The Violence Policy Center was too extreme, even as it provided the intellectual underpinnings for the \u201cpublic health\u201d push for gun control. None had real grassroots strength.<\/p>\n

Everytown doesn\u2019t just unite those three \u201clegs\u201d of the stool, it has also shown a cold ruthlessness not seen from other groups. Bloomberg\u2019s group has set in motion a chain of events that poses an existential threat to all pro-Second Amendment groups.<\/p>\n

According to court filings<\/a>, Everytown was involved in pushing Andrew Cuomo\u2019s regime to engage in the\u00a0politically-motivated abuse of financial regulations to financially blacklist the NRA<\/a>. The resulting legal battle has since crippled the organization, touching off the infighting that we see today, and the needs of the NRA to fight the lawsuit ended up destroying the NRA\/Ackerman-McQueen partnership in a very ugly way. Meanwhile,\u00a0Bloomberg and Cuomo have taken advantage of the infighting they stirred up to win elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How can Everytown be beaten? The first step is unity. The infighting has to stop \u2013 and the NRA and other pro-Second Amendment groups\u00a0need to get their act together<\/a>. Second Amendment supporters must hang together, or Bloomberg will pick off pro-Second Amendment groups one by one and leave us isolated. Once isolated, our rights will be gone.<\/p>\n

The second step is to hit Bloomberg \u2013 and his group \u2013 where it is vulnerable. There are three areas: One is Bloomberg\u2019s nanny-state tendencies in general, ranging from the size of one\u2019s soda to his environmental agenda. The other is the fact that he is an out-of-touch billionaire who is more than little hypocritical on some of these issues. The third is that his group peddles phony caricatures about gun owners \u2013 and those who support the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

The third step is to begin a long-term effort of our own. The fact is, we must\u00a0build a pro-Second Amendment culture<\/a>\u00a0in this country, to make the thought of punishing millions of Americans for crimes and acts of madness they did not commit repulsive. We must work every day to prove Bloomberg is a liar about us, through\u00a0how we address Americans<\/a>\u00a0we are trying to persuade to support our battle for freedom, through the\u00a0approach we take<\/a>\u00a0in defending our rights, and being mindful about\u00a0how we come across<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If we fail, Bloomberg may well succeed where Sarah Brady, Pete Shields, and others have failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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