{"id":1727,"date":"2014-04-17T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/04\/17\/the-gang-that-couldnt-shoot-straig\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:57","slug":"the-gang-that-couldnt-shoot-straig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"The Gang That Couldn&#8217;t Shoot Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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you are a billionaire rolling out a new so-called grassroots organization funded with $50 million of your own money, you expect your underlings to have taken care of all the details.<\/p>\n<p>Splashy story in the New York Times? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/16\/us\/bloomberg-plans-a-50-million-challenge-to-the-nra.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fancy new website? <a href=\"http:\/\/everytown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New YouTube video to get the message out? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_GBSwxyPuaE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook page for the new organization? Uhh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that if you go to Facebook and look for Everytown for Gun Safety you will go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Everytownforgunsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a page actually devoted to gun safety<\/a> and not gun control. The page lists the Four Rules in its header and it includes links to the real grassroots gun safety organization: the National Rifle Association and its <a href=\"http:\/\/training.nra.org\/nra-gun-safety-rules.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Safety 101 page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/gideonresnick\/a-pro-gun-group-stole-bloombergs-gun-safety-groups-name-on-f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzfeed even did an article<\/a> on this move. And how did Mark Glaze, former Executive Director of Bloomberg&#8217;s Illegal Mayors and current Executive Director of Everytown for Gun Safety react? With the predictable violent rhetoric of the gun prohibitionists:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>When alerted to the presence of the page, a representative at Everytown for Gun Safety said that it wouldn\u2019t be long before it disappeared from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they\u2019d like to duel for it,\u201d said Mark Glaze, the executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety. \u201cI hear every person on our staff of 85 is a better shot than Wayne LaPierre. Or maybe a bidding war!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going through the proper process for transitioning our Demand Action page to \u2018Everytown,\u2019 which takes a few weeks, and acquiring trademark protection for both Everytown and Everytown for Gun Safety. Once that happens, we expect Facebook to shoo these cybersquattters politely off this name\/page.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Staff of 85? Shoo these (peon) cybersquatters? So much for their image of being a grassroots organization even though the mainstream media will try to push it for them. <\/p>\n<p>So how do you fight a billionaire who wants to be king and impose his rules? If you are part of a grassroots movement that is willing to fight for its rights you use guerrilla tactics just like these guys did.&nbsp; Kudos to them on their preemptive strike against the Bloomberg Death Star.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Sebastian has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2014\/04\/17\/epic-screw-up-by-bloomberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more on this here<\/a>. There are now many state specific sites dealing with real gun safety.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, let me point you to two new blogs. The first is by Rob Morse and is called <a href=\"http:\/\/everytownforgunsafety.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everytown for Gun Safety<\/a>. The second is by yours truly and is named <a href=\"http:\/\/everytownforgunsafety.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everytown for (Real) Gun Safet<\/a>y. They were there for the taking. As that famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plunkitt-Tammany-Hall-Practical-Politics\/dp\/0451526201\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397762449&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=plunkitt+of+tammany+hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tammany Hall politician George Washington Plunkett<\/a> said, <a href=\"http:\/\/historymatters.gmu.edu\/d\/5030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;He seen his opportunities and he took &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/a> It works for me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are a billionaire rolling out a new so-called grassroots organization funded with $50 million of your own&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,1685,2645,2636,203],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-everytown-for-gun-safety","tag-grassroots-action","tag-guerrilla-tactics","tag-mark-glaze","tag-michael-bloomberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}