Brady Gun Control Debuts New Lie On CNN

By Joe Bartozzi

Brady United President Kris Brown and her gun management activist allies are working out of lies to inform about America’s law-abiding gun homeowners and the business that gives for the train of the Second Modification.

As a substitute of supporting the Structure and legislation enforcement efforts to get robust on criminals who break the legislation and prosecute people who commit violent crimes utilizing firearms, Brown and the gun management industrial complicated would as an alternative relatively use lies to scare the general public and disgrace them into giving up their very own rights.

The most recent instance of Brown’s displayed dishonesty was on CNN for a section associated to Hollywood efforts to advertise secure firearm storage. There was no truth examine of Brown’s lie and it’s readily obvious the falsehood was uttered to tug at viewers emotional strings to push an antigun agenda.

New Lie on Show

Final 12 months, Brady United for Gun Management introduced it was spearheading an effort to deliver on Hollywood executives to assist the group promote extra gun management. People weren’t listening to them sufficient – that means they have been as an alternative exercising their Second Modification rights to buy and possess firearms – and Brady wanted a advertising and marketing improve. Brady introduced the addition of three massive names to assist them promote extra gun management to an American public that wasn’t . In a launch, the gun management group publicized the hires, saying they may “bolster efforts and domesticate new relationships within the leisure business.” The purpose is to “ignite a motion amongst tradition leaders and creators to spark optimistic norm and conduct change and reshape America’s relationship with weapons.”

Quick ahead just a few months and CNN ran a information section highlighting that actors on the TV present “S.W.A.T.” have been utilizing a gun secure within the residence when one of many actors returned residence off obligation. Brown was included and interviewed concerning the present visually demonstrating secure firearm storage.

“The brand new strategy is among the successes of the #ShowGunSafety marketing campaign launched by advocacy group Brady United, which is now partnering with studios throughout the nation after first assembly on the White Home for a roundtable with actors and writers final 12 months,” the report narrator says.

“That may be a gamechanger,” Brown mentioned of the present together with the fast scene of the gun secure in use. Then she spouted the lie. “We lose eight children a day… to household fireplace. That’s because of firearms within the residence that aren’t safely saved.”

CNN has an in-house truth checker nevertheless it’s unlikely that the assertion from Brown will get any re-evaluation.

Quick False ‘Truth’

There’s actually no telling the place Brady’s Brown got here up with the statistic that eight kids are tragically misplaced on a regular basis because of firearm accidents within the residence. The closest information level that may very well be discovered was a statistic on the web site Finish Household Fireplace that says “Day-after-day, 8 children are injured or killed from unintentional shootings.” Not surprisingly, Finish Household Fireplace is a gun management advocacy effort made up of a partnership between Brady United, the Advert Council, Docs Demand Motion (an offshoot of the Michael Bloomberg-backed Mothers Demand Motion and College students Demand Motion teams), Bishops United In opposition to Gun Violence and others.

Stating the apparent, it’s fairly totally different to recommend eight kids are killed within the residence on daily basis from unsecured firearms than it’s to recommend eight children are killed or injured by firearms every day. The blurring of knowledge and statistics to match their desired gun management end result is all too acquainted for the gun management motion that’s working out of details.

Final month, The Washington Submit analyzed, and was pressured to concede, that the often-repeated gun management lie that “Gun violence is the main reason behind demise for kids” was certainly false. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, official statements from The White Home, numerous gun management politicians and gun management activist teams – together with Brown – have all repeated the declare. By no means thoughts that it’s utterly false.

“If you focus solely on kids — 17 and youthful — motorized vehicle deaths (broadly outlined) nonetheless rank No. 1, as they’ve for six a long time,” The Washington Submit reported. “Within the curiosity of accuracy, it might be higher for White Home officers to confer with kids and teenagers when citing these studies. When all motorized vehicle accidents are counted, then motorized vehicle deaths proceed to exceed firearm deaths for kids — outlined as individuals below age 18 — whether or not or not infants are included.”

If Brown goes to start out making extra TV appearances to tout her Hollywood gun management activism, she would possibly wish to ensure she has her information and details straight.

Actual Options, Accountable Firearm Management

Selling secure firearm storage within the residence when weapons aren’t in use is a pillar of accountable gun possession. The firearm business wholeheartedly agrees. Nonetheless, the firearm business additionally believes in details and truthful information and making certain law-abiding gun homeowners are educated and may select the suitable secure storage system that works for his or her particular person scenario.

One of many firearm business pillar packages of secure and accountable gun storage is Mission ChildSafe® – a program that has offered greater than 41 million firearm security kits, together with gun cable locks, freed from cost, no questions requested, to anybody who requests one via legislation enforcement partnerships in all 50 states and 5 U.S. territories. Maintaining firearms out of the fingers of youngsters, and in addition these people who could also be combating melancholy or different psychological well being difficulties, is of essential significance. This isn’t one thing new. NSSF has been at this for 1 / 4 century. This 12 months, 2024, marks the twenty fifth anniversary of this life-saving effort. These lock distributions are on high of the free gun locks included with each firearm that’s shipped from the producer. The firearm business’s dedication to security is unequalled.

Together with Mission ChildSafe, NSSF’s Actual Options. Safer Communities® initiatives have had an actual, optimistic impression on decreasing firearm tragedies and conserving communities safer, all whereas defending and making certain Constitutional rights are honored. It’s why the firearm business is gratified that unintentional firearm accidents have trended to historic low numbers since information was first collected greater than 100 years in the past. Whereas the work is rarely performed, that’s a statistic the firearm business is proud to be part of and that Brady United’s Kris Brown, CNN and Hollywood ought to all acknowledge.

Joe Bartozzi is the President and CEO of the Nationwide Capturing Sports activities Basis (“NSSF”), the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Producers’ Institute (“SAAMI”) and the Chairman of the Mission ChildSafe® Basis.

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