"The Brady Campaign says it is going forward with "common sense measures that are helping to protect Americans from this threat".
Right now in Illinois, anyone - including gang members, people with severe mental illness, and domestic violence offenders - can buy a gun from a private seller with no questions asked.It is already a crime in Illinois to sell a firearm to an individual w/o a FOID card. So why do groups like this need to make false statements like this? Are they ignorant, lying or both? There are no other options.
Brady said he is not pushing Dillard to concede."He's a friend and colleague. He'll have to make a decision on what he thinks is appropriate," Brady said.
"The Republican Party is moving forward. Senator Brady and I are singing off the same hymnal. We're tagging teaming Pat Quinn. So, the party's not losing any steam here," Dillard said.
The NRA stands for greed and power. The fact that they promote the availability of automatic firearms to the general public. They talk about it in the context of hunting. What are you gonna hunt with an automatic weapon? It just blows my mind that people can be so greedy and so self-centered and so power hungry . . . they really make their members look bad . . . I think a lot of those folks have really gotten far away from what it means to be human.The study continues:
...our data indicate that although many of them reported a "strong" familiarity with the NRA, most NRA disidentifiers in our focus groups had little personal exposure to the organizations with which they disidentified
(e.g., none had ever met an NRA member), and gained most of their information from media reports portraying the organization in a negative light. As one informant noted: "I don't know them, and I don't want to. I don't want to legitimate their existence by even acknowledging them. We are so far apart, we probably can't even communicate."
