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What’s The Right Age To Teach Kids Gun Safety?

March 5, 2025December 4, 2023 by John Boch

Here’s an inconvenient truth: firearm safety education saves lives. However, some people fear guns and don’t want anything to do with teaching their kids how to be safe around them. At the same time, others agonize over when to start teaching firearm safety with their kids. What’s the right time to start teaching your offspring … Read more

Question of the Day II: Is Gun Control a Tenet of Christianity?

January 24, 2011 by William C. Montgomery

Is gun control a religious issue? More pointedly, it is a tenant of Christianity? Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence president Paul Helmke, Republican former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, says that for him it is. Since the interview took place on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a program that that I’m sure nobody in America actually watches, click here for the transcript. “[Gun control] does fit into my religious tradition,” Helmke says. “I went to a Lutheran grade school growing up. We talked about nonviolence. The story of the garden of Gethsemane is put down that sword…

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The Truth About The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

October 30, 2010 by Robert Farago

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The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is dedicated to . . .wait for it . . . preventing gun violence. To that end, the gun control group beats the drum for “common sense” gun regulations: rules [supposedly] designed to prevent criminal access to firearms. Like most of the regulations the Brady Campaign champions, it seems like a reasonable stance. Who wants criminals to have guns? Like most of the regulations that the Brady Campaign champions, things are not exactly what they seem . . .

Ohio Judge to Crime-Concerned Citizens: Arm Yourselves

April 10, 2010 by Robert Farago

Josh Sugarmann (Executive director of the Violence Policy Center) and Paul Helmke (President Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) will be all over this story like a cheap suit in three, two, one . . . To be fair, so are we. And why not? It’s not every day that an Ohio judge tells the public to take up arms in defense of their lives and property. The AP report is pretty clear on the subject on the judge’s motivation: “One judge’s solution for citizens feeling less secure because of budget cuts in an Ohio county: Carry a gun. Judge Alfred Mackey of Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court advised residents Friday to arm themselves because the number of deputies has been cut about in half because of a tight budget. He also urged neighbors to organize anti-crime block watch groups.” Over at the story’s source (WKYC.com), there’s no embed code. But Judge Mackey has a moral code . . .

Brady Campaign: 2nd Amendment Rallies Trigger Violence and Vice Versa

April 5, 2010 by Robert Farago

As TTAG reported, the Huffington Post has launched a media meme equating the April 19th Second Amendment March with all manner of domestic terrorism and spree killing. In an editorial entitled April is “National Gun Violence Prevention Month,“ the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence climbs on board the smear campaign express. Hang on. Let’s see . . . National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month, National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Alcohol Awareness Month, Injury Prevention Month and National Youth Sports Safety Month. Nope. On October 20, we’re invited to celebrate (if that’s the right word) the Day of National Concern about Young People & Gun Violence. But that’s as “month” as it gets on the gun violence front this year. Never mind. I guess it’s a case of start as you meme to finish. Although Brady Prez Paul Helmke takes his sweet time getting to the Second Amendment March slur, preferring to warm-up with his April-restricted Google search on “gun violence.” Skipping ahead . . .

Brady Campaign’s Paul Helmke: Gun Ban for FBI’s Terrorist Watch List “Pretty Reasonable”

February 2, 2025March 29, 2010 by Robert Farago

Define “pretty reasonable.” Fairly reasonable? Partially reasonable? It’s no small point. “The bills in Congress dealing with this issue are all pretty reasonable,” Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence President Paul Helmke opines. “S.1317, sponsored by Senator Frank Lautenberg, and H.R.2159, sponsored by Representative Peter King, both give the U.S. Attorney General the ability to block specific individuals on the Terrorist Watchlist from securing firearms from a federally licensed gun dealer, while H.R.2401, sponsored by Representative Carolyn McCarthy, prevents anyone on the No-Fly List from purchasing guns from a federally licensed gun dealer.” Problems? A few. But then again, not too many to mention.

Starbucks CEO: “Only Unloaded Guns at Starbucks”

February 2, 2025March 25, 2010 by Robert Farago

So, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz screwed the pooch at the shareholder’s meeting re: the whole gun control thing. Maybe. After a sensible statement about the logistical issues surrounding the idea of asking employees to frisk customers for firearms (or some such thing), Schultz apparently shot himself in the [metaphorical] foot. “I do want to clarify something you said that is not right,” he told one gun ban-favoring shareholder. “You can’t walk into Starbucks with a loaded gun. So that’s not the issue. The issue is, the law allows you to walk in with a weapon that people can see that is unloaded.” Needless to say, Paul WE CAN’T LEAVE STARBUCKS ALONE Helmke of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence was all over Mr. Coffee’s statement like a cheap suit. Writing in his home-away-from-home, Helmke once again wore out his welcome.

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