Well, this was disappointing. It's a sad day for millions of American movie-watching Second Amendment supporters. My household members are Hugh Jackman fans and we're going to have to reconsider if we can watch the work of an Australian actor who fell for the publicly debunked rhetoric of lobbyist smear group Everytown. Part of the Bloomberg lobbyist apparatus, Everytown has been hard at work churning out debunked narratives to support millionaire Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun agenda. To clarify, Hugh Jackman is aligning himself with a group:
- That memorialized the Boston bomber (among other criminals shot by police) at public rallies across America.
- That had their shamefully false statistics on school shootings blown apart by CNN, the New York Times, Politifact, and other outlets.
- Whose founder and financier just blamed all of America's murders on the black community as a reason why they should be disarmed.
- Who pretends to be about firearm safety yet denigrates amazing organizations like Project Child Safe which distributes free gun safety kits and trigger locks across the country. Everytown was repeatedly asked to support the safety group and they have refused.
- Whose umbrella members have been convicted of child predation convictions.
- That regularly makes demonstrably false claims about gun laws.
- That was forced to publicly retract false and defamatory statements about members of the 2A community.
Is Jackman's new affiliation with a group of this nature a statement about his character? Intent? I find it hard to believe he would so blindly pledge himself to a group that has done little more for gun safety than make us law-abiding gun owners praise Jesus that they don't carry.
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