{"id":57404,"date":"2020-07-28T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57404"},"modified":"2020-07-28T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:34:29","slug":"57404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57404","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Everytown for Gun Safety\u2019s Stunning Hypocrisy<\/a><\/p>\n

Evergreen State gun rights activists are stunned at what appears to be hypocrisy of anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Everytown for Gun Safety, which sent out a pair of emails in recent days, one complaining about the National Rifle Association\u2019s ability to raise $1 million in June, and the other reminding recipients about the $60 million it plans to spend to help elect \u201cgun sense candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes on the heels of a July 23 press release about a \u201cspate of shootings in Seattle (that) left three people dead and five more wounded in less than 48 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that release, Everytown states, \u201cThese shootings are a reminder of the persistent gun violence that continues to impact the greater area of Seattle amid the coronavirus pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Everytown isn\u2019t acknowledging in its campaign to add more restrictions to the gun rights of Washington citizens is its multi-million-dollar support for gun control efforts that have already proven\u2014by the group\u2019s own press release acknowledgement\u2014absolute failures to prevent the violent crime they promised to prevent during the campaigns in 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\n

Liberty Park Press and TheGunMag.com investigated Everytown expenditures to support anti-gun Initiatives 594 (\u201cuniversal background checks\u201d) and 1639 (regulation of so-called \u201csemiautomatic assault rifles\u201d). Both measures were opposed by gun rights organizations and grassroots activists who were outspent by the billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobby.<\/p>\n

According to records maintained by the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, in 2014, the Everytown Action Fund contributed a whopping $2.31 million to the $10.4 million campaign, roughly 20 percent of the total war chest. Everytown founder Bloomberg kicked in another $285,000 from his own wallet. Separately, Everytown reported another expenditure of $968,906.11.<\/p>\n

I-594, mandating background checks on virtually every firearm transfer\u2014with narrow exceptions for immediate family members\u2014was supposed to keep guns out of the \u201cwrong hands.\u201d Yet it did not prevent the tragedies at Mukilteo or Burlington\u2019s Cascade Mall in 2016. One of the perpetrators passed a background check because he had no criminal history. The other took a gun from his stepfather\u2019s home, skirting the background check.<\/p>\n

The message on this T-shirt is self-explanatory. (Dave Workman)
\nCritics to this day believe it was also aimed at severely crippling gun shows like those sponsored by the Washington Arms Collectors, and private groups in Tacoma, Spokane and Centralia.<\/p>\n

Four years later, Everytown was busy again, contributing $450,000 cash to the I-1639 effort, and making a $59,500 \u201cin kind\u201d contribution. This initiative, which is being challenged in federal court, stripped young adults of their Second Amendment right to purchase and own any kind of semi-auto rifle, while requiring proof of safety training within the previous five years for any adult wanting to purchase a self-loading long gun.<\/p>\n

The measure also invented a definition of the \u201csemiautomatic assault rifle\u201d\u2014a firearm that Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said doesn\u2019t actually exist\u2014that literally applies to every semi-auto rifle ever manufactured, including .22-caliber rifles used for hunting, recreational shooting and youth training and competition.<\/p>\n

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, (YouTube, KGW)
\nYet, Everytown\u2019s press release complains, \u201cOn average, more than 750 Washingtonians die by guns each year, including 175 people who are killed in gun homicides. Between 2014 and 2018, King County, where Seattle is located, had more than 820 gun deaths.\u201d The overwhelming majority of these gun-related fatalities are suicides, and over the past few years, the firearms community has championed suicide prevention efforts, for which gun owners rarely receive any recognition.<\/p>\n

According to the FBI\u2019s annual Uniform Crime Report, in 2015 there were 141 gun-related homicides in Washington, and in 2016, there were 127 such killings. In 2017, the state reported 134 gun-related homicides and in 2018\u2014the most recent year for which FBI data is available, there were 138 slayings with firearms. It\u2019s not clear where Everytown gets its data, but none of those figures approaches 175 deaths.<\/p>\n

Also not mentioned by Everytown is the fact that the entire state\u2019s gun-related homicides pale in comparison to those racked up in Chicago or Baltimore or Washington, D.C., all three cities with even more restrictive gun control laws than Everytown has helped foist upon Evergreen State gun owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everytown for Gun Safety\u2019s Stunning Hypocrisy Evergreen State gun rights activists are stunned at what appears to be hypocrisy of anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Everytown for Gun Safety, which sent out a pair of emails in recent days, one complaining about the National Rifle Association\u2019s ability to raise $1 million in June, and the other … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9,21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-hypocrisy","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57405,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57404\/revisions\/57405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}