Friday, March 25, 2005

A matter of perspective

I just went swimming in the sewer. Well, not really, but that's what it feels like. Actually I was surfing around the Brady Campaign website, where I found this little gem mixed in with their 10 year old statistics:


The scourge of gun violence frequently attacks the most helpless members of our society - our children.


The Brady Bunch and their partners in crime, the Million Mom March, like to say things like that. Here's one from the MMM:


All children have the right to grow up in environments free from the threat of gun violence.


But is it really "for the children?"

According to this site, the average annual expenditures for the Brady Campaign/MMM during the years of 2000, 2001, and 2002 was $5,001,358.

If they really wanted to "help the children," they could have gone to the Children's Hunger Relief Fund and used that money to help feed one child every day for a year for $55. Their $5 million would have provided food for 90,933 children for a year.

I ask again......is it really "for the children?"

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Comments:
All children have the right to grow up in environments free from the threat of gun violence.

If it were really for "the chirren" they'd be much more concerned about abusive parents than unsecured firearms.
 
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