Since the Brady Campaign to Distribute Dishonesty decided that Reasoned Discourse isn't a viable solution to getting out their message so I guess they're going for the only thing left and that's becoming a tacky, second-rate tabloid that appears to take pleasure in gloating when people die with guns (don't worry. It's a TinyURL so they won't get Google-Fu with it).
You see, they're not a news organization, they're an anti-gun organization. They're not repeating this tale to inform or to educate, they're doing it as a way of saying "See? People die when they use guns!". It's tacky, but not unexpected coming from a group who relies on manipulating emotions and out right lying to try to get more donations. If they spent the same amount of time highlighting the number of times people protect themselves with firearms, it would be clear to anyone reading that the Brady's position is not supportable.
But then they wouldn't have any blood to smear on postcards asking for more money.
UPDATE
Their very next story was more of the same, literally posted in time it took me to write this. The story has nothing to do with gun crime and everything to do with rolling around in the blood of the dead.
You stay classy, Brady Bunch!
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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:13 PM