Brady United claims to be an organization that is working to end “gun violence” in the country. A more accurate description of Brady, however, is a group working to end “gun ownership.”
That’s been evident for decades, as the group used to be called Handgun Control Inc. After all, how better to “control” handguns than to ban them.
However, when leaders realized HCI’s very name ran counter to the ideas of the vast majority of Americans, it changed its name several times to seem more palatable to average citizens. However, it never changed its core purpose of trying to limit private gun ownership in every way possible.
Now, it seems that “private” gun ownership isn’t all the group wants to limit, based on recent comments from the group’s president. In a January 8 post on X, following a few high-profile shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents, Kris Brown said cops shouldn’t have guns either.
“We don’t know the details behind the shootings of 2 people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland,” Brown wrote in the X post. “But I know one thing for certain: whether in the hands of federal officers or everyday Americans, guns do not make us safer.”
While the claim is, of course, ludicrous, it’s also disrespectful to the founder of Brown’s own organization. Brady was named after President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, Jim Brady. Both were shot in an attempted assassination, which was quickly ended by armed federal agents with guns.
As NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) put it in a recent news item: “It might come as a surprise to James Brady, who passed in 2014, that the head of the organization that bears his name is now suggesting that armed federal agents do not contribute to public safety. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine that anybody would be willing to undertake the difficult and dangerous job of protecting the U.S. president and his senior staff without the benefit of being, not just armed, but with the best, highest-performing firearms currently available.”
What Brown didn’t say in her X post was that the two suspects shot in Portland, along with the woman shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while driving her car into him, is that all three have been accused of either intentionally interfering with enforcement of immigration law or of actually being in violation of the law. Authorities say they also weaponized their vehicles against federal immigration enforcement officers.
Regardless of what Brown thinks about ICE and the Border Patrol’s recent efforts, they are both duly sworn law enforcement bodies upholding laws set by Congress and ignored over the past several years. Agents of both aren’t the bad guys many make them out to be, rather good guys just doing the job that they swore an oath to do.
Ultimately, there’s still only one solid truth when it comes to violent criminals: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” The Brady organization has spent its entire existence trying to curtail gun ownership by regular “good guys.” If they were to get their wish and even “good guys” within law enforcement were disarmed, I wonder who they think would stop the “bad guys” then.