Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter
On Friday, the gun control group Sandy Hook Promise released a video, “Evan”. It is a short video detailing two students trading messages on a desk, without knowing who the other is. When they finally meet on the last day of school, a shooter interjects into the scene, and the video proceeds to cycle through several shots in the video that had no focus in the prior clip.
It is important to note, that the gun rights and gun control groups stand in unison on this issue – we are all working to identify troubled individuals looking to do harm, and make sure they get the attention they deserve. No one takes issue with SHP working to cut down on gun violence.
However, after closer inspection of Sandy Hook Promise and what the group has done since its inception, I do have a big issue with the group’s practices, including this video, which is very misleading at best. At worst, the group claims to offer help that it does not provide, and is disingenuously offering to educate the public as a way to promote their own gun control agenda.
The video is embedded below:
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Clearly, the child in the video has serious issues. He appears to be bullied and not have any friends, with no one paying him any mind. Perhaps if the MSM didn’t blast out every school shooting for days, troubled youths wouldn’t feel as though they could just copycat the Columbine shooters to posthumously receive the attention they never got in school.
If you have issue with my attacks on media coverage of shootings, ask yourself if the media gave similar coverage to a bus driver who asked kids if they were ready to die before he crashed the bus, killing 5 and injuring over 20, because I’ve heard the media cover the recent Ohio State shooting more extensively, in which there were far fewer casualties, with the only fatality being the shooter himself. The media is feeding into the rash of Columbine copycats, and SHP is not helping by giving troubled teens recognition for unspeakable conduct.
Turning to SHP itself, it is led by Nicole Hockley, who lost a child in the Sandy Hook shooting. I feel for the loss suffered by Hockley and all the other Sandy Hook families, and no law or NRA safety training will ever give her solace in her loss. Nonetheless, her practices as head of SHP are aimed at eviscerating the 2nd amendment in her quest for revenge, without any regard to gun owners’ rights. Moreover, she is known to lie and distort the facts, and will stop at nothing to harm gun owners and manufacturers.
I mention manufacturers, because although I can find no evidence that SHP was directly a party to the frivolous lawsuit against gun manufacturers that was recently tossed out, the fact that the families of 10 victims leads me to be nearly certain that several members of Hockley’s group were plantiffs in the ruling. Bearing Arms detailed quotes from the lawyers for the families as referring to all owners of AR-15s as “notoriously incompetent”.
Hockley also stated that SHP has created a guide to inform people on the warning signs of gun violence, but Bearing Arms was unable to locate such a guide, only finding questionable statistics in addition to their platform.
FirearmsNews did a closer examination of SHP, and found the following:
- The group delivered petitions to New Jersey Governor Chris Cristie, urging him to sign legislation limiting magazines to 10 rounds in the Garden State
- SHP supported the draconian new gun laws in Connecticut
- SHP’s communications director appeared in an ad for anti-gun Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy
- SHP was honored by the anti-gun New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
Clearly, this group has a history of promoting a failed gun control agenda. It is now doing its best to downplay its true goals to garner support from the general public. Make no mistake about it; they will wait until another emotional shooting takes place to put forward their calls for further restrictions on gun owners rights. Hockley and SHP have demonstrated that they are not above using questionable emotional appeals to promote their gun control agenda.
Honestly, I have no problem with the PSA route they are taking, beyond my issue with possible promotion of copycat attacks. However, SHP has shown no willingness to engage with gun owners to try to work together to identify troubled individuals, and to attack the causes that lead them down a troubled path in the first place. These appeals would be far more effective if they had support of organizations that represent millions of gun owners.
Perhaps, if they had started that way, instead of blaming the gun industry and promoting gun control, maybe gun rights and gun control groups could have worked together to make a difference. Like it or not, the NRA is the number one training organization in the USA for gun safety. If SHP and other gun control groups were really serious about doing something other than restricting the rights of gun owners, they would extend the olive branch and ask the NRA and NSSF to work together on gun safety training, instead of using emotional promos to further their gun control agenda.
Study Sandy Hook thoroughly, the work of Prof. Tracy, Dr. Eowyn, Sofia Smallstorm, the blog of FOTM, and the work of Wolfgang Halbig, and you will see a video production on the order of the one seen by you. Study crisis actors, they were used at Sandy Hook and are used elsewhere. A motivation is the disarming of America so that Globalists can rule the world with total control, no interference. The public has much to learn to get to through the fog of media lies and to the truth.
Other than murdering American citizens on a massive scale there is little chance of confiscating the guns of most law abiding citizens without regard to what draconian laws that they might attempt to force through. Americans bought 200,000 guns on Black Friday and have an estimated 300,000,000 guns, which I think is on the low side. Local cops have no stomach for confiscating the peoples guns, everyone knows where they live. If the federales attempt a large scale confiscation they will set off a shit storm not seen since the civil war. No foreign force would even consider coming to the United States to enforce something like this, think of Falluja but on a national scale.
They will attempt to whittle away at the existing rights we have through taxes and regulations, but the horse has long left the barn. The Americans who want guns have them and will not be giving them up willingly or otherwise. Even with decades of government school indoctrination there are still enough unindoctrinated citizens to hold the line for now. Looking at the map from the Presidential election it is not hard to see where the majority of the guns are and while they may attempt to steal the guns from the blue zones as they have using restrictive laws for years, the red zones will remain no go areas. Just my opinion.
Bob.
Nice work….but youtube redsilverj and peekay22/truth that blow it wide open. Once you watch those videos……you would have to in serious denial, or just retarded to believe the hoax that is sandy hook.
What is always left out of the Sandy Hook tragedy is the fact that the mother of a mentally disturbed young boy who avoided commitment to a mental hospital for her precious little snowflake ! Remember the father and older son lived together elsewhere because the brother feared sleeping because snowflake could injure him or worse in his sleep ! Mommy couldn’t bare the thought of having such a problem child so she divorced and taught snowflake to shoot , taught him well too ! After he blasted mommies brains out while she slept on to Sandy Hook . The mental health system failed etc …. So let’s go after existing gun owners to pretend we are addressing the problem ! Fact with over 80 million gun owners in America , if legal gun owners were the problem EVERYBODY IN AMERICA WOULD KNOW IT !
I don’t know whether the official story about Adam Lanza and his mother is true. But the official story about the rest of the incident is false so it certainly leads one to wonder.
There is no compromise on a man’s (or woman’s) right to use whatever tool is necessary to defend one’s life. Ever. Fuck the safety Nazis.
They’d save about twenty times as many lives if they could focus their attention on keeping the deep state from bringing all the heroin in the country, but then that’s not likely to happen.
Guns are tools. Telling human beings they can’t use tools that they own is beyond silly, but we’re not dealing with rational people here.
Will you guys explain what you mean by the official story being false and also crisis actors being used?
“I don’t know whether the official story about Adam Lanza and his mother is true. But the official story about the rest of the incident is false so it certainly leads one to wonder.”
—-Fred Hayek
Let me try to explain it in one sentence, Freddie. A totally whack-job kid, possibly on an powerful anti-psychotic drug (Fanapt) and coddled by a liberal mommy in full denial about her dear snowflake, grabbed some weapons and blew mommy’s head off with a shotgun and proceeded to an elementary school to kill 20 kids and 6 adults.
Let me know what I need to do about further explanation of my sentence above. People like you who post bullshit like your stupid “the official story about the rest of the incident is false” without further comment really, really pisses me off. Until you clarify WITH PROVEN FACTS AND NOT SPECULATON, you’re a fucking idiot.
A kool-aid drinker.
No photos, no crime scene cleanup, crime scene demolished, no record of the 26 kids singing at the Superbowl, and lots more unanswered questions must lead to a conculsion that the official story is false.
see the 16 questions and research for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZKyDV8Fnu4
But we need people like Hayek to make us look like stupid low IQ morons and keep the mainstream from taking anything else we say seriously.
Never, never, never ask for any evidence or fact from people that make statements like that, you won’t get them.
FWIW, they tend to gravitate to places like this and dominate them, as their commentary approvals and disapproval show (yes, that’s presenting evidence).
“They’d save about twenty times as many lives if they could focus their attention on keeping the deep state from bringing all the heroin in the country, but then that’s not likely to happen.”
—-Hardscrabble Farmer
100% correct, save for the fact that most of the heroin is smuggled in along with cocaine and meth shipments. To stop one drug, you have to stop them all.
Now..I’m the other side of the planet, but I just don’t understand this Sandy Hook issue.
Either the kids existed, died or they didn’t.
Why is this so damn problematic to prove ?
You have graves, death records, friends, schoolmates, school records, proof of their existence (or not) in many forms.
Anyone ?
Zdawg:
search the web for “Mike Palecek Sandy Hook”
and look for a link/pdf called “nobody died at sandy hook”
it is filled with a lot of theories that try to take apart the official story.
The book makes the claim that Sandy Hook was a FEMA drill for Mass Casualties involving children.
Of course, nobody believes this, just like nobody believes the story about building 7.
(see what I did there)