The Supreme Court has agreed to hear DC vs. Heller. Until now, the gun control lobby has been very confident, and almost cocky in their press releases.
Then came this release from the Brady Campaign.
If the Supreme Court does not reverse the federal appeals court decision, gun laws everywhere could be at risk…
…from the long-standing machine gun ban…to the 1968 Gun Control Act…to the Brady background check law.
…to your local and state laws…like the ones in California and New Jersey banning military-style Assault Weapons…and many more.
Well, I’m not seeing a downside. They smell pretty desperate, though.
I’ll let them phrase it:
Just minutes ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take what could be the most significant Second Amendment case in our country’s history.
Thanks to your support, your Brady legal team had already begun preparing for this announcement, but now our lawyers have swung into high gear to prepare our “friend of the court” brief. We have a tidal wave of work to do in the weeks ahead and we need your help now.
This fight is so critical that we need to raise $50,000 by November 30. And since your gift will be going to our Brady Gun Law Defense Fund, it will be fully tax deductible!
We need your help today to build a strong Brady Gun Law Defense Fund to protect America’s gun laws. Please give today (…) Please give generously.
Notice that they ask for money in 3 out of 4 paragraphs there. I guess the $500,000 the Joyce Foundation gave to the VPC (which is a front for the Brady Campaign) in 2006 wasn’t enough?
Now they’re scared. As well they should be. The last time the Supreme Court ruled on the 2nd Amendment was in 1939, and back then, FDR had packed the Court with justices sympathetic to his reform programs.
The current Court is far different. Seven out of nine current Justices were appointed by Republican presidents, and what’s more, they exist in an academic and political climate that has come to recognize the true nature and intent of the 2nd Amendment.
P.S. I cannot stress how important your gift is to our Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Please give a tax-deductible gift today.
I should be getting some interesting mail over the next few weeks.