More and more editorials outside the second amendment community are taking the position of praising Starbucks for standing their ground against the gun control bully The Brady Center For the Prevention of Handgun Violence, a non-profit. This is most significant.
Brady prevents nothing in the way of violence, as it bullies companies into submission and compels them to give in to disarming their employees or students and now customers. In bullying companies to refuse business to armed customers in states where it is perfectly legal to carry your loaded sidearm, gun control forces corporations to enforce rules that aren’t there in the state law. This can alienate customer and business and begin a lot more damage as it operates outside of due process and goes against the better judgment of both business and customer. Customers get cheated out of their rights and businesses lose the respect of customers for giving in.
But Starbucks shows how to stand your ground and sets the example of not giving in to pressures outside of due process: bullying.
Infuriated, Brady then makes disparaging remarks about food poisoning, and bullies Starbucks publicly that it will somehow similarly treat food poisoning with the same indifference it accuses the company to be applying in respecting gun rights in its stores.
Los Angeles Times by Brady President Paul Helmke March 8, 2010: “If the company were to have a policy that, say, resulted in tainted food and drinks that sickened its customers, we would all agree that such a threat should be communicated to the American public.”
I don’t think so, and one wonders why Hemlke would say so.
Because Brady is starting to lose it, like most leftist organizations who are on the wrong side of the issue. Even another Kennedy began to lose it on the floor of the Congress this week, ranting hysterically out loud about a minor injustice or simply the breaks of the game: a little less publicity than he wanted. Former Congress Critter Massa’s mysterious self-flagellation mea culpa over a minor tousling tussle ticklefest attracted some attention on more self-destruction: why quit over such a small infraction? In falling on his sword, some got the feeling that he brought it with him beforehand.
Brady is no different from these, as its gun control fever becomes a Potomac Fever-like fervor in bullying, going hostile and off-topic, and going just plain nuts.
The style of the left as in Brady’s model is to hound companies who have a specific vulnerability in their public image. When a company such as Starbucks notices that their image is enhanced actually by standing up for themselves against bullies, Starbucks speaks volumes. The gun owners are responding with love, showing appreciation, buying the products and public support.
Other companies will notice, and once again, Brady has bitten off more than it can chew, and may soon have only itself to blame for its eventual demise. Again. (It operated earlier as Handgun Control, Inc, also as a non-profit.)
The beauty is that voters may notice, too, that they don't really need to listen to the left on any issue anymore as if the left has a legitimate opinion: it doesn't. The left only pushes people around, its only purpose in some long-standing anger we will never understand, and that's not much of a credible opinion on an issue requiring serious good faith. Soon, the entire left will be judged in November, and likely disregarded as not being as serious-minded as the issues require, but more self-indulgent, more self-serving, more unpatriotic.
We need solutions to abuses of power, and those solutions need to come from the electorate for a change and not from officials. That means electorate-originated thought and not official-originated thought. Brady and gun control obviously do not speak for the electorate, except in a very small, anti-liberty faction; we will always have people who hate this country, unafraid to say so, really, unafraid of what you think (obviously) about takings and getting others to enforce them.
Nothing would say Hatred of American Independence better than gun control and bulling people into it.
This November, vote for Independence from public servants.
