BELLEVUE, WA – The embarrassing exposure of a gun control activist’s tale about a school shooting in rural Pennsylvania which never happened illustrates just how far anti-gun fanatics will go in their crusade to disarm America, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
The dramatic tale of a school shooting at Dallas High School even found its way into a speech delivered by the author of this bogus report at the Kentucky state capitol in February, according to one published account. The fellow responsible for this canard, Calvin Polachek, has been denounced even by the gun prohibition lobbying group which initially gave him the chance to spread his deceit. Moms Demand Action, part of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety lobby, hosted the February rally, but now admits Polachek “shamefully lied to our volunteers.”
“The exposure of this fraud not only illustrates how far anti-gun extremists will go in their effort to attack gun rights,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “but also shows how quickly other gun grabbers will accept an outright lie as gospel to justify their own prejudices against gun owners and the Second Amendment.
“We’re also bemused,” he stated, “that the Mom’s group felt it necessary to condemn Polachek’s obvious attempt to ‘exploit the tragic, lived experience’ of true victims, because the gun prohibition lobby exploits tragedies all the time. They make a habit of it, and some have even made it a career. They manipulate data, make wild claims about gun rights organizations wanting ‘guns everywhere for everybody’ and engage in varying degrees of social bigotry in an effort to stereotype, demonize and ultimately ostracize gun owners.
“What is alarming is how so many people willingly endorse such behavior and even engage in it,” Gottlieb observed. “Polachek’s tale is a symptom of a bigger problem, which is the blatant prejudice practiced against the Second Amendment community by politicians, the media and self-righteous extremists who have convinced themselves that turning rights into regulated privileges will somehow prevent violent crime, improve society and ultimately create some sort of Utopia. Maybe what upsets the gun control crowd most about Polachek’s prevarication is that he got caught and exposed.”