{"id":4287,"date":"2011-07-10T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2011-07-10T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T20:00:39","slug":"helmke-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4287","title":{"rendered":"Helmke bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the last day for Paul Helmke<\/a> at the Brady Campaign<\/a>. \u00a0Despite suffering major defeats in the court<\/a> and an inability to move an agenda in Congress and most of the states, Helmke insists the antis will win<\/a> in the end. \u00a0A successor has not been named yet. \u00a0I don’t think Colin Goddard<\/a> will be it. \u00a0He’s a bit young and I don’t believe he has the management skills necessary to run their operation.<\/p>\n

In any event, Paul decides to leave us laughing with these closing remarks:<\/p>\n

… \u201cI am not trying to ban all guns,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to take everyone\u2019s guns away. I\u2019m not anti-gun. And I\u2019m constantly having to say Brady doesn\u2019t mean we are going to disarm everybody …\u201d …<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n