Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
A new book scheduled for release next week reportedly says that the Obama administration preferred "politics over policy" when it "ignored a willingness by the gun lobby to help in the fight against illegal guns and gun violence," the Washington Examiner - no connection to this column - is reporting today in a preview.
It would hardly be the first time that anti-gunners in or out of government have dismissed an opportunity to sit down with gun rights advocates. The same sort of thing was reported earlier this year by the Seattle Times in a story about Initiative 594's chief financial backer Nick Hanauer, when he apparently blew off a chance to talk about gun policy with Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
There should be no small amount of public interest in these disclosures, because they demonstrate that it is not the firearms community that appears fixated and inflexible, but the administration and gun prohibitionists. What's better for the country, divisive politics or productive discourse?
http://www.examiner.com/article/anti-gunners-not-interested-talking-says-new-book-preview