Take a look at this.
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Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC), is worried about this trend. In the Monitor article, Sugarmann stated:
“If you compare the pro-gun activity in the blogosphere versus the pro-gun-control activity, the scales have just tipped tremendously in their favor,” says Josh Sugarmann, founder of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, which advocates for more gun control in the US. “There’s much more engagement, more involvement, and they clearly have more free time than people on our side of the issue do.” It’s curious that Sugarmann forgot to mention that he has nothing but “free time,” except that his time is paid for quite handsomely by the Joyce Foundation: In 2007, he made $132,894 in salary plus another $3,987 in benefits. Perhaps he worries about what would happen if a bunch of wealthy Liberty-lovers got together–a la Joyce Foundation–and paid pro-rights writers $136,881 per year.
While Sugarmann disparages what he considers amateurs with too much free time, the Christian Science Monitor notes: “the pro-gun forces are, for now at least, winning the battle for hearts and minds, even gun control advocates concede.”
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