There’s Something About Mary
The Inquirer weighed in on the Mary McFate story recently. They gave their usual free publicity to Bryan Miller at CeaseFire NJ (the NRA has to pay for advertising you know). The editorial didn't have too much to say other than this charmer:
"To the extent that disrupts their important work fighting gun violence, the alleged spy McFate/Sapone and her paymasters have made urban streets that much more dangerous."
Groups like the Brady Campaign (formerly Handgun Control, Inc.) are not "fighting gun violence". They are trying to reduce then eliminate gun ownership. In fact Mary McFate was almost certainly telling the NRA what these groups were really doing. The talk about reducing gun violence and "sensible gun laws" is pure marketing. Actually, it is fraudulent marketing because what they're selling isn't really what they are advertising.
I'd like to hear from the Inquirer specifically what the anti-civil rights groups are doing to fight gun violence, not gun ownership, but gun violence. You see, here's the problem for them. Focusing on violence rather than ownership would require drawing attention to the details of the crime data. The fact is most murders are committed by people with criminal records, who own and possess their guns illegally, and who have a history of increasingly aggressive and violent behavior.
In other words, legal gun owners are not the problem. Criminals are. No amount of gun control will change that.