More disappointment for the Brady Campaign

May 23, 11:20 AMSt. Louis Gun Rights ExaminerKurt Hofmann

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I don't generally publish on weekends (actually, this is my first weekend Examiner article), but I could not resist a short piece about recent developments.

Thursday, I mentioned that although the Brady Campaign had no illusions of President Obama vetoing the credit card industry bill (because of the guns in national parks amendment), Brady president Paul Helmke hoped that Obama would at least pay lip service to the citizen disarmament agenda.  Helmke's words:

By attaching this language to an unrelated bill designed to protect credit card users, those pushing more guns in more places have insulated themselves from any possible chance of a veto by President Obama.

When he signs this bill, however, we call on President Obama to re-affirm his long-standing concern about more guns being carried in more places, and promise the American people that he will be taking steps in the near future to help reduce the gun violence in this country that unnecessarily touches so many each year.

As I said Thursday, the Brady Campaign was reduced to hoping not for blocking of the restoration of gun rights to national park visitors, but for Obama to at least complain about it.

It seems, though, that even that request fell on deaf ears.

Also in the bill, but unmentioned in the White House fact sheet: a provision that makes it legal to carry loaded guns in national parks. The measure won bipartisan support in the Senate and House after being offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Coburn and the National Rifle Association argue the measure will enable law-abiding citizens to defend themselves against acts of violence in the parks. The pro-gun control Brady Center argues it will make the parks less safe. In a statement earlier this week, Brady Center president Paul Helmke called on Obama "to re-affirm his long-standing concern about more guns being carried in more places" when he signs the credit card bill today.

Not a single word?  It's almost as if no one cares about their crusade, doesn't it?  I'm not the only one to have noticed, either.

Despite the pleas of gun control advocates, Obama made no mention of a provision tacked onto the bill that allows loaded guns to be carried in national parks.

Again, as I mentioned Thursday, I know I am at risk of taking the gloating thing too far.  I am not backing off from my belief that gun rights face a serious threat from this administration and Congress--if not now, then "when the time is right".  Still, I am not one to pass up an opportunity to give the citizen disarmament advocates a poke in the eye, if such an opportunity presents itself.