{"id":5020,"date":"2010-11-27T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/11\/27\/brady-campaign-racis\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:30","slug":"brady-campaign-racis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"Brady Campaign Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18619,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.statesman.com\\\/news\\\/texas-politics\\\/nra-opens-new-front-in-gun-rights-battle-1073668.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.statesman.com\\\/news\\\/texas-politics\\\/nra-opens-new-front-in-gun-rights-battle-1073668.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18620,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\\\/2010\\\/11\\\/24\\\/brady-desperation-getting-nasty&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111015182429\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\\\/2010\\\/11\\\/24\\\/brady-desperation-getting-nasty\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:43:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:43:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18621,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Bill_Clinton#Early_life_and_career&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260414164203\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Bill_Clinton&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:43:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:43:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18622,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/#%21\\\/paulhelmke&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260421182639\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:43:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:43:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18623,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/texas-politics\/nra-opens-new-front-in-gun-rights-battle-1073668.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin American-Statesman on the D&#8217;Cruz cases<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;This is an unprecedented attempt to arm teenagers &#8230; even though most states currently restrict them from carrying a concealed weapon,&#8221; said Daniel Vice , senior attorney for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence . &#8220;Teen gang members could buy guns if this law is changed.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>James D&#8217;Cruz is Latino.<\/p>\n<p>James D&#8217;Cruz is 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>By the logic of the Brady Center, the combination of the two makes James D&#8217;Cruz a potential &#8220;teen gang member&#8221;. Nice racial stereotype, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is no surprise given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\/2010\/11\/24\/brady-desperation-getting-nasty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their recent attack<\/a> on Mr. D&#8217;Cruz where they took Facebook postings out of context to conclude he is fascinated with &#8220;with gangsters and outlaws, often quoting them, and include violent, threatening messages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By this logic, one would say the Yale Law Class of 1973 was filled with a bunch of hack politicians that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton#Early_life_and_career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slept with staff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#%21\/paulhelmke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacks 18 year olds<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only got a job due to family connections<\/a>. It makes as much sense.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Austin American-Statesman on the D&#8217;Cruz cases: &#8220;This is an unprecedented attempt to arm teenagers &#8230; even though&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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,4515,4257],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brady-campaign","tag-james-dcruz","tag-paul-helmke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}