Brady Campaign Dying?

[pbwalker]

http://www.examiner.com/x-30265-Detroit ... thers-away

As gun rights activists await the upcoming decision in the McDonald vs. Chicago Supreme Court case, new evidence emerges that, in this post-Heller decision world, the public has soured on the bitter taste of gun control.

The latest evidence of the declining public support for restrictions on gun rights is in the data released today by the Federal Election Commission on the private donations and expenditures of the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC.

The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence is the flagship group for the gun control effort. The Brady Campaign absorbed the Million Mom March in 2001 when that organization's membership dropped so low as to be no longer self-sustaining.

Information provided by the Center for Responsive Politics , and derived from the FEC reports, shows that the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC, raised an all-time high of over $1.7 million in the 2000 election cycle and distributed over $1.6 million of those funds.

Contrast this to the more recent 2008 election cycle where the PAC raised just over $15,000 and spent just over $54,000.

The 2010 election cycle is still ongoing, but the numbers look no better: So far only $2,500 has been raised and just $4,545 spent.

Browsing through the charts and information at the Center for Responsive Politics shows fewer gun control advocates willing to spend their own money on that agenda. In the 2000 election year cycle 320 individual donors gave a total of $329,996. Contrast that to 2008 where three donors donated a total of $15,000.

So far, for the 2010 election cycle, only one donor has made a single contribution of $2,500.

As the Brady Campaign goes, so does public support for gun control. That's why the huge drop in funds raised, money spent, and individual donors is so telling.

The conclusion is clear: The public no longer believes the gun control lies. Now is the time to work to get that message to the government by redoubling efforts to elect pro-gun candidates and kick out those politicians who would deny us our basic human rights.

[surprise_i'm_armed]

pbwalker:

Thanks for finding that great article, which gives all of us 2A
people a reason to smile. Do you know anything about its author,
or the policy of that meda outlet?

From the days of Watergate we got the advice "to follow the money"
in analyzing any subject.

The lack of money flowing to the antis is a confirmation that the
Brady Campaign has not won the hearts and minds of rational people.

Gun control is not crime control.

There's already a plethora of laws which make illegal any bad thing
that can be done with a gun. More laws just restrict law-abiding
people, and have no effect on curbing criminals.

SIA

[seamusTX]

The Examiner can best be described as a loosely organized network of independent writers. They are not all libertarian or pro-RKBA, but many are.

I'm pleasantly surprised by this information. I have always known the Brady organizations have no widespread support, but formerly they got a lot of funds from a few deep pockets.

- Jim

[KFP]

I bet the three donors from 2008 feel good about their contributions! Of course, they may be/have been employed by the group too!

What will Obama/Pelosi/Reid do?

[surprise_i'm_armed]

In the 2008 election cycle, they received $15,000 and spent $54,000.

Sure wish my personal budget could work like this. :-)

SIA

[C-dub]

I wonder who, if anyone, is waiting in the wings to pick up the slack after their demise.

[KFP]

I wonder who, if anyone, is waiting in the wings to pick up the slack after their demise.

Presumably someone, but their fate will likely be the same if these financial reports are correct.

[seamusTX]

Watch out for IANSA.

The Citizens United Supreme Court decision may turn out to be the proverbial two-edged sword. I would like to be told in authoritative terms that I'm wrong.

- Jim

[aaangel]

lot of funds from a few deep pockets.

how much do you want to bet that these guys with deep pockets have armed security guards.

[seamusTX]

Of course they do. "Gun control" is only for rednecks and colored people.

- Jim

[74novaman]

Mayors Against Illegal Guns is the next big threat. They have deep pockets (Bloomberg) and try to shade their rhetoric as much as possible. We're only against ILLEGAL guns....yeah...problem is they'd like to make all guns illegal.

[Stupid]

I only support the real way to reduce gun violence - by ways of putting anybody who commits a felony with a firearm for mandatory 20 years - life sentence. That includes any convicted felon ever touches a firearm.

[SecedeTX]

I only support the real way to reduce gun violence - by ways of putting anybody who commits a felony with a firearm for mandatory 20 years - life sentence. That includes any convicted felon ever touches a firearm.

Sounds lucid to me. Having a clean rap sheet (as we must have to get the licence), makes me trend to harsher enforcement of people who are caught carrying with a past offence.

[Oldgringo]

Brady Campaign Dying?

Maybe so, BUT there will be other gangs of anti-gun cranks to take Brady's place; e.g., Bloomberg, Hollywood and other well fed socio-economic elements in our midst.

Keep your eyes peeled and, "Shoot low boys, they're ridin' shetlands".