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Gun enthusiast caught on camera supporting expanded background checks

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 o...