When it comes to real gun safety, talk to the people who know something about it

The gun control movement has abused the English language yet again: Instead of gun ‘control’ it’s now gun ‘safety’. Much like a semiautomatic rifle is an ‘assault weapon’ or how there can be mass shootings with no fatalities or school shootings with squirt guns.

Case in point: The National Rifle Association’s ‘Eddie Eagle‘ program, which has been presented to more than 32 million children. Since its inception, medical associations, including the Michael Bloomberg-funded John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions, have dismissed the program, saying it takes more than a single presentation to make an impact on younger minds. In fact, they tried a similar program and got the same results – because they ignored everything beyond the presentation.

The NRA never assumed a single presentation would do the job. They did assume parents would play a crucial part in reinforcing the message because they knew this was the only way the program could work. In addition to offering free downloads of the program’s parental guides as well as advisory videos from people like Julie Golob, a champion shooter and a mother of two.

Are the doctors in these medical associations really that stupid? We can understand the Bloomberg Center’s contempt; they don’t want to be embarrassed. However, some of the ‘studies’ by so-called medical professionals are so meaningless, one has to wonder how they got funded.

Having seen some of the gun control gangs efforts at safety messaging, they are pretty much worthless. In a series of videos starring Melissa Joan Hart, Everytown managed to show serious violations of the basic rules of gun safety when a police officer showed how to make a Beretta 92 ‘safe’. He dropped the magazine, but didn’t check the chamber of a handgun perfectly capable of being discharged without the magazine. Not only doesn’t look good for Everytown, it doesn’t look good for the New York City Police Department.

Another loser was “Family Fire” created by the Brady Bunch and the Ad Council. Not only was its first ‘Safety tip’ not to have any firearms, it offered no support, only instructions on spreading the message in print and online.

Contrast that with Project ChildSafe, a safe-storage initiative of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s trade and lobbying association as part of the group’s “Own It, Respect It, Secure It” program.

Gun control fanatics and the media never mention Project ChildSafe. In fact, when the Department of Justice awarded a $2.4 million grant to the NSSF, specifically to expand Project ChildSafe, the liberal media was aghast and shrieked for the DOJ to retract the grant. They never even examined the purpose of the grant, they just saw the money going to the gun industry.

We need to call out the soi-disant gun safety groups and ask them the tough questions about what, if anything, they are doing about actual gun safety. Other than a tired bunch of laws they have flogged for ages, they’ve got nothing to show.

Once again, the gun control movement is exposed: It doesn’t care about saving lives; just about grabbing guns.