No Democrat is Too Violent for Everytown…as Long as They Promise to Back More Gun Control Laws

Everytown for Gun Safety’s political hypocrisy is on full display as it remains silent on reported remarks made by Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, to whose campaign it has contributed $200,000, fantasizing about the shooting of a political rival and his children three years ago, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

“Apparently,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed, “it’s okay for one of Everytown’s so-called ‘gun sense’ candidates to exchange text messages about shooting a former Virginia House speaker in the head. After all, why else would Everytown give $200,000 to the man’s political campaign? What’s even more bizarre, and downright disturbing, is that Jones is running for the office of Virginia attorney general, the commonwealth’s top law enforcement officer.

“But the macabre nature of Jones’ acknowledged remarks and Everytown’s silence underscores the depravity of the gun  prohibition lobby’s double standard,” he continued. “We’ve seen where some people are trying to downplay his remarks as a private conversation, but suggesting that a political rival ‘gets two bullets to the head’ is not the kind of thing said casually by a person now campaigning to be the Virginia attorney general. 

“Clearly from the size of its contribution to the Jones campaign,” Gottlieb noted, “the nation’s wealthiest gun prohibition lobbying group wants to buy this guy a victory in the November election. Maybe Everytown is hoping that if it remains silent, people will overlook or soon forget its June endorsement of Jones, and not make a connection between this embarrassment and Everytown’s $1 million advertising campaign supporting another Democrat anti-gunner—former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, who is now running to be Virginia’s next governor. She has already made pronouncements about the gun control legislation she will sign if elected. 

“It is obvious the only thing Everytown is concerned about is getting anti-gunners elected to public office,” Gottlieb stated. “We’re appalled, but hardly surprised, at Everytown. An organization so determined to buy away our constitutional rights, one election at a time, doesn’t care who it brings along to do its bidding.”