Reply #69: Todays News.....Who'd of Thought

[Bob Hannah]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March resorted to deceptive advertising in full page ads which ran yesterday in major newspapers," John Michael Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, charged here today.

Snyder, named Dean of gun lobbyists by national media, said "the claim in the ad that 'every national police organization' supports renewal of the ban on so-called 'assault weapons,' in reality a ban on the manufacture and importation of certain semiautomatic firearms, simply is not accurate.

"Neither the National Association of Chiefs of Police (NACOP) nor the American Federation of Police and Concerned Citizens (AFP&CC) supports it. The Brady bunch is out to lunch!"

The ad ran in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Snyder noted further that, "annual NACOP surveys of the nation's chiefs of police and sheriffs indicate that over 90 percent of the top law enforcement command officers in America support the right of law-abiding American citizens to purchase firearms for sport or self-defense."

Snyder said that the Brady group "obviously is spending at least many tens of thousands of dollars of its contributors' money on this advertising campaign. What a waste! There is not enthusiastic massive public support for renewal of the ban. In May, on Mother's Day, the so-called Million Mom March for renewal degenerated into a thousand gang limp from the Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.

"In May through early June, a CNN QuickVote internet poll demonstrated that of the hundreds of thousands of people interested enough to participate in the poll, 59 percent, or 215,424, voted in favor of lifting the ban, and 41 percent, or 152,257, voted in favor of extending it."

Politically, Snyder concluded, "the ban is a loser. Even former President Clinton, in his 1995 State of the Union Message, indicated that one of the reasons for his party's loss of control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 60 years was its support for the ban which he proposed!"

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