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Bloomberg's Everytown loses its spokesperson

Gun control advocate: Obamacare & Snowden hurt the agenda, which wouldn't have worked anyway



If you watch a lot of news, you've seen Mark Glaze. He's the executive director of Michael Bloomberg's "Everytown for Gun Safety" organization and, every time there's a mass shooting, the gun-control group puts him out there to attack the 2nd Amendment. Glaze has always argued that many of the (almost universally) illegal guns used in these crimes could have been contained, if only we would diminish the rights of law-abiding Americans.
Now, Mark Glaze has decided to walk away from Everytown. His group's agenda is - at least for the moment - in ashes, and he's given a farewell interview to the Wall Street Journal. In it, he blames Obamacare's launch, Congressional gridlock, and Edward Snowden for America's resistance to gun-control. Oh, and he admits it wouldn't have worked anyway. Problem Number 1, according to Mr. Glaze, is Snowden's reveal of the NSA's unconstitutional overreach:

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"The fact that people have learned that the government has taken for itself the right to listen in on our most private conversations has done nothing to inspire faith in government restraint. It's that lack of faith in government restraint that makes it difficult to do things like ask everybody to take a background check."
Problem Number 2 is the undeniable fact that government is largely inept:
"When you take on the gun issue, you're forced to take on by proxy a much bigger issue in this country, which is a deeply ingrained distrust of government that gets worse every time the government can't get a healthcare website off the ground or can't get its act together to pass a farm bill."
Problem Number 3 is the biggie. Gun control just won't do what Glaze has been claiming it would.
"Mr. Glaze said the movement hasn't solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldn't have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates, even if they might have prevented other gun crimes. Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy solutions that we have to offer and the way some of these mass shootings happened, you know, it is a messaging problem for us, I think. ... Is it a messaging problem when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting? Sure it's a challenge in this issue."
Amazing. The man who is arguably America's number one gun-control spokesperson is actually admitting that the federal government is out of control, it's inept, and solutions proposed by gun-grabbers won't stop the very crimes he ghoulishly likes to exploit as pro-gun control talking points. That's not a messaging problem. It's a reality problem. After all, he's basically just outlined the very reason the 2nd Amendment exists in the first place. Still, he won't let that stop him, and he promises he'll be back. According to Glaze, the new timeline for gun control is "an election cycle or two." In other words, "come talk to me when President Hillary is in office."


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