There’s a new gun-control lobby in town called Georgians for Gun Safety, which ironically, gets its money from the Boston University’s School of Public Health.
They’ve been running a series of advertisements on local television calling viewers’ attention to the impending repeal of the Assault-Weapons Ban. The ads are narrated by a Hispanic baseball player and reference the DC sniper shootings, which is odd because the rifle used by Mohammed and Malvo was a Bushmaster semi-automatic, not a weapon even covered by the Brady Bill’s nebulous and vague definition of “assault weapon.” The ads rely on a hodgepodge of half-truths and emotional exaggerations to make their point.
What these folks hope to achieve is vague at best, but given that the fastest-growing segment of our population is Mexican, I can see where having a Hispanic narrator would be a shrewd (if not despicably manipulative) touch.
I checked out their page, and as usual, we’re fed a bunch of vague and unsupportable “factoids” to stir up the emotions. Continued...