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Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 07:14 PM Apr 2020

Major gun safety groups endorse Joe Biden's presidential bid




Two of the nation’s largest gun control advocacy groups have endorsed Joe Biden, the latest sign that Bernie Sanders’ spotty record on guns may be weighing him down in the presidential primary.
Everytown for Gun Safety and Brady announced they are backing the former vice president.

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund plans to spend $60 million on electoral activities this cycle, some of which will go toward trying to elect Biden. An Everytown spokesman said the group typically airs advertisements and engages in grassroots organizing for the candidates it endorses, though it’s unclear when the group will begin to spend on Biden’s behalf. The group, which was co-founded by billionaire former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, also boasts 6 million supporters and more than 375,000 grassroots donors, numbers that could help boost attention and support for Biden’s presidential bid nationwide.

Brady, another leading gun violence prevention group, endorsed Biden on Sunday. The group said in a statement that as a senator, Biden worked with Jim and Sarah Brady to pass the landmark Brady Bill, which established mandatory background checks for gun sales. Biden also championed a 1994 federal assault weapons ban.

“Joe Biden has worked with the gun violence prevention movement, with survivors and with lawmakers his entire career,'' Brady President Kris Brown said. ”We know him, and he knows us. We know he will work to deliver this change.''
Biden said he was honored to receive the endorsements and lamented that the high rate of gun violence in the U.S. has become “normal” for most Americans. For those who are connected to gun violence, “normal is a living nightmare,” Biden said.

In an interview with The Associated Press, John Feinblatt, head of Everytown for Gun Safety, said the group chose Biden because working for gun control is “his past, it’s his present, it’s his future.” Asked if Sanders’ record on gun control factored into the group’s decision, Feinblatt said that the group looks at a candidate’s “total record.”
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Major gun safety groups endorse Joe Biden's presidential bid (Original Post) Gothmog Apr 2020 OP
Thank you, Alyssa, Goth & Gun Safety Groups.. Biden is the Cha Apr 2020 #1
K&R onetexan Apr 2020 #2
These are important endorsements Gothmog Apr 2020 #3
Worth Noting, Sir, It Was The NRA Got 'Bernie' Into Congress In The First Place The Magistrate Apr 2020 #4
 

Cha

(295,900 posts)
1. Thank you, Alyssa, Goth & Gun Safety Groups.. Biden is the
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 07:46 PM
Apr 2020

only logical choice!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
3. These are important endorsements
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:52 AM
Apr 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
4. Worth Noting, Sir, It Was The NRA Got 'Bernie' Into Congress In The First Place
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:56 AM
Apr 2020

They backed him in order to punish a Republican who had proved disloyal....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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