Listen to the liberal media, and you get the impression that the tide is turning on gun control. Not only is support for gun control supposedly on the rise (note: it’s not), gun control groups are becoming mobilized, we’re told.
“Gun Control Groups See Huge Surge As More Than 500,000 Sign, Donate, Volunteer” read one headline at Forbes. According to the article, Moms Demand Action, the grassroots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, saw 75,000 new volunteers following the recent school shooting at Majority Stoneman Douglass high school. Meanwhile, Giffords, the organization run by the former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in 2007, said more than 450,000 people have signed “a vote courage” pledge, and that 43,000 people have donated $1.2 million.
But what about pro-gun groups?
According to the Miami Herald:
The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million from March 1 to March 31, the group’s first full month of political fundraising since the nation’s deadliest high school shooting on Valentine’s Day, according to filings submitted to the Federal Elections Commission. The total is $1.5 million more than the organization raised during the same time period in 2017, when it took in $884,000 in donations, and $1.6 million more than it raised in February 2018.
The $2.4 million raised is the largest the group has raised in a single month since June 2003. The group also saw $1.1 million and $1.5 million raised in January and February 2013, two months after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
I’ve seen these post-public shooting donations portrayed by liberals as “donations in response to a public shooting,” but what they really are is “donations in response to liberal calls for gun control in response to a shooting.” Liberals seem to be under the impression that the gun debate is between the NRA and the American public, but all of the NRA’s power comes from their members.
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