5 Ways Gun Safety Advocates Are Using The NRA’s Playbook Against It

[SecularMotion]

One year after Congress failed to pass a background check bill that 90 percent of Americans supported, groups to combat the National Rifle Association are ratcheting up their financial investment, and pledging to take the gun lobby head on like never before.

“Because of Washington’s failure, we are beginning the next phase in the fight,” said John Feinblatt, president of the newly launched Everytown for Gun Safety funded with $50 million from Michael R. Bloomberg. Added an Everytown press release: “This means continuing to press for change in Washington and moving beyond Congress to bring the fight for common-sense gun policies to state capitols, corporate boards, and state and federal elections – fields of play formerly occupied almost solely by the gun lobby.”

And a year after former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords declared, “Mark my words: if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s,” her political action committee is fundraising at a rate of $2.5 million in just three months.

The gun violence prevention movement won some major state battles over the past year, but so, too, has the gun lobby, which remains a menacing check on forward movement. As the next generation of gun safety activists aims increasingly to battle their opponents head on, here are some key tactics from the NRA’s playbook that they are just starting to take up:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/17/3427522/five-ways-gun-violence-advocates-are-taking-up-the-nra-playbook/

[billh58]

1. K&R

Finally, a sensible political solution to eradicating corrupt politicians who accept NRA support and money.

[flamin lib]

2. It's about time.

Karl Rove said Republicans don't win by bringing people together but by dividing them. Gun advocates will walk through the fires of Hell to vote, so will anti abortion, anti gay, anti tax and anti government EVEN if each group opposes the other policies.

We have to get there, walk through the fires of Hell and vote. First here, then on every other policy we support.

[TupperHappy]

3. Support for more gun control by the vast majority of the public

...is a mile wide and an inch deep. Of course you will get 90% in support of background checks. But the devil is always in the details. That's why you haven't seen anywhere near the success you thought you would in getting the banner's radical anti-Constitution agenda passed.

I also appreciate the finger-snap in Billionaire Bloomberg's face over the loss of the Facebook pages. I haven't checked whether he's been able to wrest them away from the grassroots effort to define them from a pro-gun viewpoint. Maybe he should just look in the ashtray of his car for a few more millions and console himself with that.

[billh58]

4. Another Gungeoneer

heard from -- how quaint. Not enough action in the right-wing swamp for you?

[DanTex]

5. LOL. Back to FreeRepublic for you!

[Paladin]

6. If Bloomberg's recent actions are going to fail, how come you guys can't stop talking about it?

It's because you're scared shitless about any opposition, particularly opposition that has a solid funding base. Your movement has run on empty-headed paranoia for so long, you aren't happy unless you're scared shitless. Suits me.....

[jimmy the one]

7. devils in the gop

tupperhappy: Support for more gun control by the vast majority of the public ...is a mile wide and an inch deep.

.. this figure includes about 80% of gunowners supporting bg checks, are they as shallow as well?
.. it's relative anyway, there's more fervor in gunnuts rallying behind any perceived threat to gunownership, no matter how ludicrous or off the wall or deceptive it is.
Gun collectors are under some dire misconception that their guns are going to appreciate in value over the years so as to make themselves a handsome profit after keeping their guns in pristine condition for decades, so there's that incentive to fork over money to the nra to protect that, even tho they're squandering any profits they might've realized, times over.
.. and we gun control advocates can't really get together at rallies & have a show & tell about how our background checks are going, or rant on about the awb efforts in our states, as can gunnuts strut about showing off their new handguns & holsters & ammo boxes & superclips. So gunnuts get the intensity factor hands down, that's about all you can say about your contention about inch deep. In comparison gunnuts are drowning in the swamp.

tupper: Of course you will get 90% in support of background checks. But the devil is always in the details. That's why you haven't seen anywhere near the success you thought you would in getting the banner's radical anti-Constitution agenda passed.

The devil is in the details? baloney, bs, rot, malarky, the devils live in the republican party, for manchin toomey compromise was defeated to appease gop legislators in the senate. There was no devil in those details, it was doomed by republicans from the moment democrats proposed & supported it.
This guy above thinks current guncontrol legislation is 'radical anti constitution agenda', I smell a GN.
Buh, BYE; go sell your tupper ware someplace else.

[billh58]

8. K&R n/t