By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
A stunning admission from the man who, until recently, was described as “the face of the gun-control movement” for billionaire anti-gunner Michael Bloomberg, could have some blowback for the gun prohibition lobby because he candidly stated that none of the solutions proposed by anti-gunners would have stopped mass shootings.
Mark Glaze, who stepped down as executive director of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns and more recently, Bloomberg’s $50 million so-called “grassroots” Everytown for Gun Safety, observed, “Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy solutions that we have to offer and the way some of these mass shootings happened, you know, it is a messaging problem for us, I think. … Is it a messaging problem when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting? Sure it’s a challenge in this issue.”
Glaze doesn’t blame gun control failures on the fact that the message is wrong, however. According to the Wall Street Journal, which did a story on Glaze’s departure from the gun prohibition movement, the fault actually lies with President Barack Obama’s “unrelated political problems” including health care, Edward Snowden and congressional gridlock.
The newspaper also noted, “Mr. Glaze said the movement hasn’t solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldn’t have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates, even if they might have prevented other gun crimes.”
Translation: The “common sense” solutions to so-called “gun violence” actually don’t solve anything. Instead, they reflect a tired agenda and a gun control wish list that is more about limiting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Bloomberg’s “Everytown” lobbying group recently was harshly criticized for repeating a debunked claim that there have been 74 school shootings since the Sandy Hook attack in December 2012. Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, dubbed the group “Every Liar for Gun Safety.”
Gottlieb does not believe anti-gunners have a “messaging problem” so much as a credibility problem. Glaze essentially confirmed that with his remarks to the WSJ.
