{"id":70,"date":"2006-11-15T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/15\/attacking-two-amendments-for-the-price-of-one\/"},"modified":"2006-11-15T05:55:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T11:55:29","slug":"attacking-two-amendments-for-the-price-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Attacking Two Amendments For The Price Of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news2006\/1103-07.htm\">Brady Campaign to &#8220;Prevent&#8221; Gun Violence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>, by way of its mission to attack the Second Amendment, is working with <strike>speech-rationing<\/strike> &#8220;campaign finance reform activists to gut the First Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, Nov. 1, asking the FEC to investigate whether the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America are in violation of Federal Election Commission regulations and Federal Election Campaign Laws.The complaint about the National Rifle Association asks the FEC to determine whether the NRA has engaged in prohibited activities, including electioneering on behalf of federal candidates, by expressly advocating the election or defeat of federal candidates in communications to the general public, beyond its membership, through its Web activities.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint against the Gun Owners of America GOA is similar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple 0f notes here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Brady Factory&#8217;s influence among voters, which peaked in the early nineties (when the group had about 150,000 member versus 3 million at the time for the NRA) in terms of popular support, hasn&#8217;t so much swerved into the worlds of the media, the PR war, the courts and the bureaucracy as simply realized that that was its rational home.  Brady knows it&#8217;s long lost the battle for America&#8217;s hearts and minds; they seek now only to grab America by the shorts and pull hard.<\/li>\n<li>All of you gun owners who stayed home or voted Constipendatarian because of your ire over ethanol subsidies or the picayune inner workings of a candidate&#8217;s immigration stance, or voted Democrat because you thought we needed a &#8220;change of course&#8221; or you thought &#8220;the GOP needs to get shook up&#8221;?  This is your decision beginning to come home to roost.\u00a0 The Dems are the party of Speech Rationing; McCain-Feingold was aimed at least partially at stifling the Second Amendment lobby, whose grassroots efforts had been so powerful in previous elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Democrat gains are going to embolden the gun grabbers.  Not that it&#8217;s going to be a complete disaster &#8211; even the Democrat leadership has learned that gun control is a complete nonstarter more than ten miles from either coast.  But it <em>does <\/em>mean that we&#8217;re going to have to spend time and money to defend the progress of the past six years, rather than press ahead for further progress among friendly legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<blockquote \/><p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joelrosenberg.livejournal.com\/179646.html\">Joel Rosenberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brady Campaign to &#8220;Prevent&#8221; Gun Violence , by way of its mission to attack the Second Amendment, is working with speech-rationing &#8220;campaign finance reform activists to gut the First Amendment: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, Nov. 1, asking the FEC to investigate whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}