Alan Gottlieb is the executive vice president of the gun-rights group the Second Amendment Foundation, which is planning to team up with other such groups to hold a "Guns Save Lives Day" on the first-anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. After receiving a great deal of flack for the timing of the event, the groups have agreed to push it back a day - to December 15th. I know, how sweet of them, right?
When he was a recent guest on the CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight, Gottlieb said this regarding the timing of the event with relation to the Newtown school shooting: "My heart goes out to them... but that doesn't allow them to use that day either to attack my rights."
Ah, the irony in that statement is so thick, I could have sworn it took steroids. Mr. Gottlieb is complaining that the anniversary of a horrific school shooting where 20 children and 6 adults were attacked and killed by way of a gun is somehow an attack on his rights if people find it insensitive and moronic for him to hold a national "Guns Save Lives Day" on that very day. I'm sorry, Mr. Gottlieb, but when you compare your rights of holding a "Guns Save Lives Day" event on the first-anniversary of a school shooting being attacked with 20 6- and 7-year old children being attacked and killed via guns, you're going to lose that argument every time.
Interestingly enough, though, for as extremist as Mr. Gottlieb sounds, he was apparently caught on camera during a dinner speech in Portland, Oregon on April 12th of 2013, where he appeared to side with 90% of the public on a gun control law. At this speech, Gottlieb said the following:
"Philosophically, in a perfect world, I don't want any background check either, but I also don't want criminals buying guns and killing people with them and I can't justify morally that a person walks into a gun show, buys a gun from somebody without giving his name, the guy can hardly speak English, and he walks out the door with that firearm with no check, nothing at all. It goes on every day at every gun show. I want to be honest with you. We can't tolerate that. We're going to lose all our rights if we allow that to continue to go on. It's not a sustainable position for us to take. Yes, we might be able to win the battle this time and stop it in Congress. You're going to lose the war over time with that. Your Republican candidates, they're going to run on that, with [Mayors Against Illegal Guns co-chair and New York City Mayor] Mike Bloomberg spending millions of dollars in their districts and wiping them out? And then Democrats get their [way] on background checks [and] want gun bans. It's not a tenable position for us to take. We're marching off the edge of a cliff with it."
There we have it - one of the leaders of "Guns Save Lives Day" admitted that it's morally right to pass a bill which would expand background checks, especially in the case of gun shows. Welcome to the dark side, Mr. Gottlieb, where 90% of the country agree on a common sense gun law. Congress, now it's your turn...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/what-guns-saves-lives-day_b_4107395.html
When he was a recent guest on the CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight, Gottlieb said this regarding the timing of the event with relation to the Newtown school shooting: "My heart goes out to them... but that doesn't allow them to use that day either to attack my rights."
Ah, the irony in that statement is so thick, I could have sworn it took steroids. Mr. Gottlieb is complaining that the anniversary of a horrific school shooting where 20 children and 6 adults were attacked and killed by way of a gun is somehow an attack on his rights if people find it insensitive and moronic for him to hold a national "Guns Save Lives Day" on that very day. I'm sorry, Mr. Gottlieb, but when you compare your rights of holding a "Guns Save Lives Day" event on the first-anniversary of a school shooting being attacked with 20 6- and 7-year old children being attacked and killed via guns, you're going to lose that argument every time.
Interestingly enough, though, for as extremist as Mr. Gottlieb sounds, he was apparently caught on camera during a dinner speech in Portland, Oregon on April 12th of 2013, where he appeared to side with 90% of the public on a gun control law. At this speech, Gottlieb said the following:
"Philosophically, in a perfect world, I don't want any background check either, but I also don't want criminals buying guns and killing people with them and I can't justify morally that a person walks into a gun show, buys a gun from somebody without giving his name, the guy can hardly speak English, and he walks out the door with that firearm with no check, nothing at all. It goes on every day at every gun show. I want to be honest with you. We can't tolerate that. We're going to lose all our rights if we allow that to continue to go on. It's not a sustainable position for us to take. Yes, we might be able to win the battle this time and stop it in Congress. You're going to lose the war over time with that. Your Republican candidates, they're going to run on that, with [Mayors Against Illegal Guns co-chair and New York City Mayor] Mike Bloomberg spending millions of dollars in their districts and wiping them out? And then Democrats get their [way] on background checks [and] want gun bans. It's not a tenable position for us to take. We're marching off the edge of a cliff with it."
There we have it - one of the leaders of "Guns Save Lives Day" admitted that it's morally right to pass a bill which would expand background checks, especially in the case of gun shows. Welcome to the dark side, Mr. Gottlieb, where 90% of the country agree on a common sense gun law. Congress, now it's your turn...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/what-guns-saves-lives-day_b_4107395.html
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