Baltimore, MD—Sarah Brady had
been the face of Gun Control in America for more than three decades. However today at age 73 she has succumbed to a bout of pneumonia.
Brady became the convenient
standard bearer for the forces that hate all guns and gun rights. This after a armed madman wounded her husband
James Brady who was President Ronald Reagan’s Press Secretary during a 1981assassination attempt.
Brady led a very deceptive
campaign that was intended to incrementally outlaw all firearms. She cleverly began to change firearm
adjectives and successfully demonized firearms based on simple cosmetics.
Like Brady most Americans
were ignorant about guns. She renamed all
the firearms that looked somewhat scary as assault weapons.
Assault rifles were actually
classic military combat weapons and were by that definition all fully automatic. That meant one pull of the trigger could
cause the weapon to fire until it was empty.
Assault weapons were really machine guns already banned by federal laws. Machine guns were already unpopular because
they extravagantly consume expensive ammunition.
What she did was redefine
millions of semi-automatic rifles and pistols confusing anyone and everyone
that they too were machine guns.
She succeeded to get the
so-called Assault weapons ban passed into law by a single vote. The law lasted ten years
and the crime rate soared anyway.
When the law expired millions
of the formerly banned guns were suddenly purchased and the crime rate began to
drop like a rock.
Brady always pretended she just
wanted to go after the scary guns when she really wanted every last law-abiding
American defenseless and helpless to criminals or government gone wrong.
Brady redundantly invented her own
statistics, overstated claims of gun deaths and injuries. She used FBI Uniform Crime Reports that
lumped justifiable killings by cops and citizens as Homicides suggesting they
were all murders.
She cleverly called the ATF
gun trace requests as crime gun incidents.
ATF routinely traced any and all found weapons or whenever their ownership was questioned. To suggest those guns were involved with criminal events was another very bold
lie.
Brady published a grading
list for jurisdictions on the basis of their gun laws. The paradox there was that the “A” list states
with gun bans or draconian restrictions had the highest murder rates. The “D” list states had few gun laws along
with little or no violent crime.
Finally Brady ran out of lies
and all but a few states passed laws allowing the law-abiding the right to
carry concealed weapons. Her landmark Assault
Weapons Ban was allowed to expire.
Courts nearly everywhere have reasserted Constitutional Second Amendment
rights.
Brady was clearly humiliated into her obvious forced retirement. she quickly dropped out of sight.
Brady's dream was forced registration of all firearms so government agents could locate and confiscate them later with the
next laws she’d hope to champion.
Brady somehow convinced
politicians that pre-purchase background investigations would insure criminals
and mental defectives would be unable to obtain weapons. Another expensive failure!
Phony identification and
purchasing fraud efforts routinely overcome the expensive and ineffective Brady
check system. Of course the Brady checks
created every kind of obstacle for the law-abiding especially those with
similar names to convicted criminals.
Nobody wants to see armed
criminal and mental defectives on our streets.
They are and always will be out there.
Well-trained and armed law-abiding people are the only way control cowardly
criminals. There will never be enough
cops to do this.
Sarah Brady ran a successful
but deceptive scam on America that gave her a huge financial reward and
sainthood among her gun rights hating disciples.
I will not mourn the loss of
Sarah Brady. I do however mourn the loss
of those who were murdered because they were enjoined by unconstitutional laws
to defensive weapons.
Government must stop insuring
that only violent criminals are armed.
