The Brady Campaign, in its continual effort to limit Second Amendment rights, has just named Arizona “Paradise for Criminals.”
The Brady Campaign “has finally gone too far in its deceptive efforts to raise money, attract the blindly fearful, and undermine the fundamental human and civil right to keep and bear arms,” according to leading Arizona civil-rights experts.
“Arizona has been ranked number one for gun-rights freedom,” said Alan Korwin, publisher at Bloomfield Press, whose gun-law publishing firm recognized this top rank in 2010, and was backed up for the past two years by Guns and Ammo magazine, the leading publication in the field.
“Do you feel like you live in paradise for criminals?” Korwin asked, noting the federal failures at our Mexican border.
“Is this what you think your Arizona Commerce Authority or Visitors Bureaus believe? Is this why you moved here? Do you actually see crime in the streets where you live — or just on your TV set late at night in so-called “news”? The Commerce Authority was not reached for comment.
Charles Heller, speaking for the Arizona Citizens Defense League, added, “This is a typical publicity stunt of the Brady people. They don’t care about truth or morals. What’s upsetting is how fast and unquestioningly the so-called mainstream media gives them attention, demonstrating their own blatant bias. As long as the Brady center thinks what we’re doing is wrong we know we’re on course. We look forward to even greater negative ratings from them in the future.”
Activist are asking the Columbia School of Journalism, which plans a workshop in Phoenix on news media bias about gun violence, to the Campaigns tactics. According to the activists’ statement, “The Bradys even make it a joke, providing a travel directory for criminals. We’re not making this up.”
E.J. Montini, a columnist at the Arizona Republic, issued a stinging rebuke of the Brady’s stunt; “I don’t consider our beautiful desert oasis a ‘paradise for criminals.’ We have our share, but so does every other place, including those with stringent firearms restrictions.” And those places don’t have an international border that leaks worse than an Iranian nuke inspection.”
The activists bemoan the fact that “we face destructive hyperbole from an agenda-driven fear-mongering group in the nation’s murder capital, where obtaining even a government permission slip to keep and bear arms is virtually impossible. They get extensive “news” coverage, instead of ridicule and a demand for an apology. If such preposterous outrage were to appear over race, gender or any other civil right the media would howl with alarm. Instead, we find the lunatics are truly running the asylum. Guns save lives, stop crime and help keep you safe.”