Below is a video interview with Arne Duncan by the Brady Campaign, a fierce anti-gunner when he was in Chicago and the motivation for one of my longest rants against self-righteous anti-gun people. And forgive me for quoting myself, but I really do think the whole thing is worth a read. I guarantee it will take much less time to read than it took to write 
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But in any case I wonder how Mr. Duncan finds it morally acceptable to position the 3 – 4 million NRA members in the same category as “gang bangers and everyone else” who dare to disagree with him on the subject of the 2nd amendment and firearms. And I wonder if he remembers the adage that “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
Perhaps, Mr. Duncan, you would take a moment to read the below. And just perhaps you might realize there are intelligent people who also love children but disagree with you, and in fact think your goals will do more harm than good:
I am an NRA member, Sir. I’m a father of two beautiful children who mean more to me than my guns or ANY material thing in my life. As a live near Littleton I drive by Columbine High School on an almost daily basis. And I never cease to be reminded of that horrendous day in 1999 when two young men took so many lives, maimed others, and then committed suicide. Making that nightmare memory even more real in my mind is the realization that my beautiful girls may very well attend High School in that very building.
I’m aware of the dangers of the world, and if I could make the world safer for my children and the children of others by giving up my guns and supporting the anti-gun groups and their supposed “sensible gun laws” I would do so in a heartbeat. There is nothing more important to me than my girls, and destroying a couple of rifles and sending checks to the Brady Campaign would certainly be an easy and “feel good” solution.
But I think, Mr. Duncan, you have made some serious mistakes in your views; and that your political goals will make my girls’ world, and the country in general, more endangered, not less. And if we, as two adults who love children could converse intelligently for a moment, perhaps you might at least understand why some do not agree with your “common sense” stand, and argue that history reveals your stance to be naïve and short sighted.
Obviously Mr. Duncan is still throwing his full support behind the Brady Campaign … but watch how careful he is not to get nailed down on a specific issue. He stays very general, and when a man with a political position/political aspirations talks in such generalities it is because he wants to avoid being labeled. This is a big difference from his Chicago positions, when he did everything possible to be quoted on the anti-2nd amendment side of things.
