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The Truth About Rand Paul’s Deceitful Pro-Gun Fundraising Letter (Images)

In a fund-raising letter from Senator Rand Paul — on the outside of the envelope, to be precise — President Obama is brazenly misquoted. See that “quote” in the lower right-hand corner of the envelope?



Yeah, that’s pretty scary. Except he never said that. The first part of this quote was taken from his speech concerning the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But the part in the brackets is pure fantasy. The President never said that. Here is what he DID say:

“In the coming weeks, I’ll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens, from law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to parents and educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, because what choice do we have? We can’t accept events like this as routine.”

Sounds a little different when it’s correctly quoted, doesn’t it? But the real quote doesn’t cut it with the gun-nut crowd. Especially not
The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), an organization that makes the NRA look mild by comparison. Its founder, Dudley Brown, is adept at lying.

But that’s not the only weird thing about this fund-raising appeal. See the return address? A Post Office box in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Rand Paul is a Senator from Kentucky. What’s the deal? It seems that PO box is the address for… Saber Communications (aha!). Michael Rothfield’s company. The same guy who is on the NAGR Board of Directors. You don’t have to be an Einstein to figure this one out.

Will this come back to bite Rand Paul in his Teabagging ***? We shall see. But, until we find out, we can at least smack him (and Saber Communications) down for misquoting the President just to scare stupid gun owners. Hopefully, the gun owners who aren’t this dumb will remember this cynical attempt to frighten them.