Gun Control Advocate: Norway Shooting Could Be Exploited, Help Gun Lobby
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:00AMThe Brady Campaign, a prominent gun control advocacy group, issued a statement Monday warning that Friday’s attack in Norway could be used as justification for looser firearm laws.
“There are some in America who will use this shooting to assert that Norway’s strong gun laws don’t work or to support the American gun lobby’s campaign to make it easier to carry guns in public places,” Acting President of the Brady Campaign Dennis Henigan said. “That would be a tragedy. It should not be forgotten that, in a typical year, Norway loses fewer than 10 of its citizens to gun homicide; America loses an average of 12,000.”
Added Henigan,“The shooting in Norway is neither a reason to condemn Norway’s strong gun laws, nor to celebrate our own.”
The Brady Campaign was founded by Reagan Press Secretary James Brady, who was left partially paralyzed after being shot during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
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