04-19-2014, 11:00 PM
I'm all for a nationwide campaign to help push universal background checks and to keep guns away from more children and domestic abusers. There needs to be some pressure on politicians to act based on the voices and best interests of the public they represent without fear of repercussion from the gun lobby.
Will Everytown for Gun Safety accomplish those goals? I don't know -- but I hope so. I'm not a Bloomberg fan, but very few people have the kind of money it takes to launch such a wide spanning initiative. A counterweight to the NRA is needed; a good thing -- IMO.
If Bloomberg and the group try to exceed the stated goals and go for a ban on all guns at some time in the future, I'd not support that mission and they wouldn't be able to do so without the public and lawmakers' support anyway.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing or standing still because neither side trusts the other. If Everytown for Gun Safety succeeds in its stated goals -- great. If it then tries to move towards unconstitutional measures, they'll lose a good deal of any support they managed to accumulate to that point and they'll fail on that front, IMO.
Will Everytown for Gun Safety accomplish those goals? I don't know -- but I hope so. I'm not a Bloomberg fan, but very few people have the kind of money it takes to launch such a wide spanning initiative. A counterweight to the NRA is needed; a good thing -- IMO.
If Bloomberg and the group try to exceed the stated goals and go for a ban on all guns at some time in the future, I'd not support that mission and they wouldn't be able to do so without the public and lawmakers' support anyway.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing or standing still because neither side trusts the other. If Everytown for Gun Safety succeeds in its stated goals -- great. If it then tries to move towards unconstitutional measures, they'll lose a good deal of any support they managed to accumulate to that point and they'll fail on that front, IMO.