We told you recently how the gun-ban group Everytown for Gun Safety had launched its own bogus “gun safety training” program after we blasted them for years for having nothing to do with real “gun safety.”
“This is the same group that preaches that guns are the root of all evil, claims that gun owners can’t really protect themselves and are actually at greater risk when a gun is in the home,” Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), pointed out at the time.
As expected, though, birds of a feather flock together. Now, some in the so-called “mainstream media,” anti-gun advocates themselves, are praising the group for the initiative.
In a September 25 story, USA Today practically gushed over the group’s Train SMART program under a headline of “Everytown wants stricter laws on guns. Now, they’ll also teach you to use one.”
Everytown President John Feinblatt, himself a longtime gun-ban advocate, painted a different picture to the USA Today writer. He said everytown was always meant to be a “wide tent” including gun owners.
“We looked at the existing marketplace and it’s primarily fear-based,” Feinblatt told the newspaper. “When you boil it down, it’s marketing for the gun industry disguised as training.”
Of course, in addressing chaos caused by violent criminals, USA Today heralded runaway “gun violence” as one reason the nation needs Everytown’s program.
“The launch of the program comes at a time when the nation is reeling from political and everyday gun violence,” the story stated. “Meanwhile, the group faces constant headwinds in Washington making any changes to federal gun laws.”
Apparently, however, not all gun-ban advocates are on board with Everytown’s program. As USA Today further reported, Sandy Phillips, the mother of a victim of the 2012 movie theater attack in Aurora, Colorado, said the move is “hurtful.”
“What they’re doing is so hurtful and so insulting to survivors,” she told USA Today. “It’s like ‘Oh my God, how could any survivor continue to support them?’ People are hurt and confused. Our mission is to reduce gun violence and keep people from having guns in their homes, and here you are giving a gun safety class that encourages gun ownership. You can’t have it both ways.”
Ultimately, Everytown’s program was likely launched to make it seem like they want to train gun owners in safety when they actually want us not to own any firearms at all. NSSF’s Keane put it best in last month’s story.
“The whole thing is so bizarre that it couldn’t possibly be fiction,” he said. “Honestly … you just can’t make this stuff up.”
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