Bloomberg-Backed Group Pushing Gun Control With Familiar Color

BELLEVUE, Wash., June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's nationwide effort by the Michael Bloomberg-supported Everytown for Gun Safety to promote the wearing of orange garments in an effort to push the gun control agenda at least uses a color so many of Bloomberg's former colleagues are already wearing, in prison, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed.

"We've been watching social media throughout the day, and we're stunned that the organizers of this event chose the same color that many prison inmates, including several ex-members of Bloomberg's other group, the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, are wearing every day of the year," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "At least they're sticking with a color familiar to so many anti-gun politicians."

Two Bloomberg-supported groups, Everytown and Moms Demand Action, along with other gun control organizations – essentially the entire gun prohibition lobby – are endorsing and participating in today's "wear orange" effort.

"When this publicity stunt was launched," Gottlieb observed, "the organizers tried to peddle this as an adoption of the color that hunters wear for safety in the field. What they didn't expect, however, is that millions of hunters and gun owners are now fighting back, reminding the gun grabbers on social media that orange is also the color of prison jumpsuits.

"At least we'll see the anti-gunners coming from a long way off," he chuckled, "but we can't be sure if they're just misguided protesters, or jail escapees. In either case, we're advising our members to not let anybody wearing orange get too close today.

"What is truly deplorable," Gottlieb added, "is that this effort tries to send a subliminal color-coded message, linking crime and violence to legitimate hunting and recreational shooting. Maybe next year, the gun prohibition lobby should just wear black and white stripes."

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

SOURCE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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