Reply #26: Actually it was Handgun Control, Inc. ... [View All]

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Which was the predecessor to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Brady Campaign

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The Brady Campaign emerged from Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI), originally the National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH), and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (CPHV). NCCH was founded in 1974 by Dr. Mark Borinsky, a victim of gun violence, and became HCI in 1980.<4>

On June 14, 2001, Handgun Control, Inc. was renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in honor of Sarah and Jim Brady.<4> On October 1, 2001, it incorporated the Million Mom March.<5>

In January 2010 the Better Business Bureau published its Charity Review on the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, stating that it failed to meet six (of twenty) standards for charity accountability. This report will expire in 2012.<2>

Leadership

James and Sarah Brady have been influential in the movement since at least the mid-80s. Mrs. Brady replaced Nelson "Pete" Shields as chair in 1989.<6> Shields had held the position since 1978.<7>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Campaign

Firearm Safety/Kids & Guns

On January 19, 2001, during Senate confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Sen. John Ashcroft, Michael Barnes, the president of Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI, now Brady Campaign) grossly exaggerated the number of children who are killed with firearms each year. Mr. Barnes was assisted in his deception by a perennial anti-gun lobby water carrier, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). Their exchange went as follows:

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Other "gun control" supporters have resorted to the same deception. Then-President Bill Clinton tried to build public support for so-called "Triggerlock" and "smart" gun laws by claiming that 13 children are killed with guns every day. (NBC "Today Show," 3/2/00) Hillary Clinton said, "Every day in America we lose 13 precious children to gun-related violence." ("Remarks by the President and the First Lady on Gun Control Legislation," 4/27/99) HCI/Brady Campaign Chair Sarah Brady claimed the figure was 14 per day. (3/99). The HELP Network recently claimed the figure at nine per day. (Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan, Help Network News, "Firearm Injury and Fatality Among Children and Adolescents.") Sometimes the figures are expressed as "5,000 per year" or "one every 90 seconds."

Anti-gunners produce their phony figures by adding the relatively small (and declining) number of firearm-related deaths among children to the much larger number of deaths among juveniles and young adults under the age of 20, and dishonestly calling the total "children." Sometimes, they have counted anyone under the age of 24 as a "child" to get an even higher number of deaths. The following table shows the correct figures for each age group.emphasis added
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=21&issue=009

NATIONAL REVIEW April 17, 2000 Issue
An Army of Gun Lies

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A full listing of the lies told by the antigun lobby could fill a book. A short list of the more popular ones would have to begin with the canard about the number of children killed by firearms. We are told repeatedly that 13, or 15, or 17 children every day are killed by guns. This factoid is used to conjure up pictures of dozens of little kids dying in gun accidents every week.

In truth, the number of fatal gun accidents is at its lowest level since 1903, when statistics started being kept. That’s right: Not only is the per capita accident rate at a record low, so is the actual number of accidents—even though the number of people and the number of guns are both much larger than in 1903. The assertions about “X children per day” are based on counting older teenagers, or even people in their early twenties, as “children.” The claims are true only if you count a 19-year-old drug dealer who is shot by a competitor, or an 18-year-old armed robber who is shot by a policeman, as “a child killed by a gun.” As for actual children (14 years and under), the daily death rate is 2.6. For children ten and under, it’s 0.4 per day—far lower than the number of children who are killed by automobiles, drowning, or many other causes.
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http://old.nationalreview.com/17apr00/kopel041700.html

The De-Bunking of Handgun Control, Inc.

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Of the "12 Children a Day Killed" by guns, 70% of these "children" are 17 to 19 years old, shot by police or by their intended victim during the commission of a violent crime (typically drug or gang related crime). Good Riddance! Many of the rest are suicides, some are genuine victims of violent crime, and a small fraction are accidents.
http://www.digital-exp.com/doco/HCI-debunked.html#Children

I said that neither the Brady Campaign nor the NRA should be allowed in influence CDC reports. Their statistics should be clear of any political opinions or viewpoints.