The Brady Bunch

The Brady Campaign to Prevent gun Violence sounds like a good organization. They are always talking about "common sense" gun laws. Of course we all know that "common sense" never enters into the discussion. The Brady bunch was founded by a guy named Pete Shields. Their original name was Handgun Control Inc. Their purpose back the was to ban every handgun in the Country.
Here's their mission statement.


We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. . . . [W]e'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. . . . The first problem is to slow down the number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal.

Richard Harris, A Reporter at Large: Handguns, New Yorker, July 26, 1976, at 53, 58 (quoting Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc.)...

Yep, sounds like common sense to me. Of course now their big thing is the "evil assault guns". What ever those are. We can think another one of the gun haters for that. . Take this quote from gun haterJosh Sugarman;

"Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons."
-Josh Sugarmann, Assault Weapons and Accessories in America, 1988

Lies and misdirection seem to be the stock in trade of all of these gun haters. More bad news for them, they are losing members so fast that the Brady bunch is having to sell their e-mail list to raise enough money to keep the lights on.Let there be no doubt, they want everyone except the Government to be disarmed. They will settle for nothing less.