A fabricated tale of a school shooting in rural Pennsylvania, spun by gun control activist Calvin Polachek in Kentucky, has ignited a firestorm of criticism and exposed the depths to which some advocates may go in their pursuit of stricter gun laws.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) issued a scathing condemnation, asserting that the incident highlights the extreme tactics employed by what they term “anti-gun fanatics” in their “crusade to disarm America.”
Polachek’s fictional account, detailing a dramatic shooting at Dallas High School in Pennsylvania, even found its way into a speech he delivered at the Kentucky state capitol in February. This revelation has sent shockwaves through both gun rights and gun control circles, leading to denouncements from unexpected quarters.
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“It’s my 26th year in the Dallas School District, and I could tell you that thankfully we’ve never had an event like that in our school district,” Dallas School Superintendent Thomas Duffy told WHAS. “It’s very troubling and disheartening that was a story that was being promulgated.”
Moms Demand Action, a prominent gun prohibition lobbying group and part of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety lobby, initially hosted the February rally where Polachek spoke. However, the organization has since disavowed him, admitting that Polachek “shamefully lied to our volunteers.”
Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of the CCRKBA, did not mince words in his reaction. “The exposure of this fraud not only illustrates how far anti-gun extremists will go in their effort to attack gun rights,” Gottlieb stated, “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.”
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Gottlieb also expressed a degree of “bemusement” at Moms Demand Action’s condemnation of Polachek for exploiting “the tragic, lived experience” of true victims. He argued that the gun prohibition lobby frequently “exploits tragedies all the time,” making a habit and even a career out of it.
Gottlieb accused gun control advocates of manipulating data, making “wild claims about gun rights organizations wanting ‘guns everywhere for everybody,’” and engaging in “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. He posited that Polachek’s fabrication 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.” These groups, he argued, have “convinced themselves that turning rights into regulated privileges will somehow prevent violent crime, improve society and ultimately create some sort of Utopia.”
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Gottlieb concluded with a provocative thought: “Maybe what upsets the gun control crowd most about Polachek’s prevarication is that he got caught and exposed.”
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