Here is a story from Friday, July 13th, from the Philadelphia Daily News, that continues to circulate around the internet that we wanted to share. It’s a story prompted by our Freedom States Alliance recipient group CeaseFire NJ, and its persistent executive director, Bryan Miller.
Put the gun down, Elmo.
That’s the war cry of gun-control advocates after learning that a National Rifle Association Web site is offering discounted tickets to Sesame Place and other kid-friendly theme parks – in return for donations to the NRA’s political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).
“This is a very strange thing, the connection between guns, the NRA and Sesame Place,” said Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ. “It looks to me like a PR nightmare.” …..
According to the NRA-ILA Web site, the price of a two ticket donation is $50, about half of the regular price. The other discount prices, according to the Web, are: four tickets for $100, six for $150 and eight for $200. …..
Ashley Varner, a spokesperson maintained that the NRA was a “family-friendly organization.”
A “family-friendly organization?” Are you kidding? How does the NRA say something like that with a straight face?
“Family-friendly?”
This from an organization that thinks the deaths of young children is worth the price of easy access to guns? Or even more chilling, the “price of freedom?”
In fact, according to the CDC, between 1999 and 2004, over 900 children and young people under 18-years-old died from unintentional gun injuries. Many of those children’s lives could have been saved if gun owners were accurately warned about the real risk of owning a gun. Or if the gun industry was required to enact even the most basic consumer product safety devices that would prevent children from accidentally discharging a gun.
Although the NRA spin machine tried desperately to deflect the issue Bryan Miller summed up the issue accurately:
“We think it is just wrong to use a kids’ park, and this is for small children, to raise money for an organization that is doing everything it can to protect gun-industry profits at the expense of safety, and that includes children’s safety.”
