by Jean Fontaine is the “data lead for South Carolina Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.” She lives in Greenville, South Carolina. I’m not sure what a data lead is but I imagine it to be somewhere between a mailing list manager and someone who clips articles from a newspaper.
Ms. Fontaine had an op-ed in the Greenville News regarding a training session she attended in Minneapolis, Minnesota this summer. She started the column by saying:
This summer, I took training in Minneapolis for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a nonpartisan organization that supports the Second Amendment. It was created after Sandy Hook to advocate common-sense gun reforms that are straightforward…
Either the training Ms. Fontaine took in Minnesota was on how to be a commedienne or she just told a whopper. The Demanding Moms for Illegal Mayors are neither non-partisan nor pro-Second Amendment.
Fortunately, those who bothered to read this screed long enough to comment thought she was full of it as well. There was not one comment supportive of her position.
A quick Google search reveals that Ms. Fontaine is a former educator who objected to constitutional carry in South Carolina when it was proposed in 2013. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the late 1960s. I’m sure Ms. Fontaine, bless her heart, is a nice person and means well but her advocacy is misguided and dangerous.
The demanding mommies that protested the removal of the ILLEGAL 30.06 signs at the Houston zoo also claimed similar/
"I'm personally not anti-gun," said Stephanie Lundy. "But we also believe there are places in our public life where guns are inappropriate and the zoo is one of those places."
I wonder if they all attended the same training session.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/mothers-hold-rally-over-antigun-sign-at-houston-zoo/35373558
I wouldn't be surprised. They get their talking points from the top and they say what they're told to say.
You know what is "inappropriate" lady? Violent criminals who can choose to attack you any place and any time and even in a zoo. That's why people carry firearms.
But she gets an OPED, and the rest of us don't… And you can bet she's getting emails/faxes everyday with the party line!
But she gets an OPED, and the rest of us don't… And you can bet she's getting emails/faxes everyday with the party line!
I'm sure you meant "bless her heart" in the traditional southern manner.