BELLEVUE, WA –-(Ammoland.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation today challenged the nation’s leading opponents of gun ownership to “lead by example” and give up their own firearms and armed security before expecting the citizens, for whom they work, to surrender their ability to defend themselves.
“It seems clear from the direction the administration is going that it wants to severely restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners to purchase the firearms of their choice, “said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, “and we think they should demonstrate their belief in their own programs by giving up their firearms and security first.
“That would include Joe Biden’s shotguns,” he added, “and the armed security now enjoyed by Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
“It would especially apply to President Obama,” he continued, “who just signed legislation giving himself Secret Service protection for life, at the expense of taxpayers he wants to disarm.”
Gottlieb said the same principle should apply to anti-gun celebrities who have bodyguards while supporting legislation that would deprive average citizens from owning firearms for personal protection.
“For example,” he noted, “when I appeared with CNN’s Piers Morgan recently, he asserted that nobody needs an AR-15. The other day near Houston, a Texas teenager used an AR-15 to defend himself and his 12-year-old sister from a home invasion by shooting two burglars. Piers can choke on that.”
Gottlieb believes that public figures have no right to suggest gun bans for private citizens unless they first voluntarily give up their personal security.
“These anti-gun politicians were not elected to positions of royalty,” Gottlieb said. “They are citizens, with no more rights than any other citizen. They were elected to serve the public, not treat the public like serfs. If they want us to put our safety at risk, they should drop the pretense and give up their guns and guards before daring to suggest that anyone else do the same.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. In addition to the landmark McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court Case, SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; New Orleans; Chicago and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and numerous amicus briefs holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
PM and friends can tell people to kill american citizens and thats OK but if someone said that about him a foreigner they would be arrested and maybe shot.
Piers Morgan is an IDIOT and if NOT deported then SHOT just like he & his anti-gun IDIOTS suggested should be done to Alex Jones on his show!! I got SO aggravated by him I couldn't finish watching the video. BUT there is a simple statement that Gottlieb could have made… The POLICE are NOT there when someone breaks into your home to do you & your family HARM!!! And I would have asked Piers why the POLICE need to have those guns? WE need those guns for the SAME reason the police do!!! I would CONSIDER giving up my… Read more »
Kind of hypocritical coming from the SAF given that they have been going from one Federal court to another saying that states can ban firearms from being openly carried even though the US Supreme Court came to the opposite conclusion.