NC: GUN CONTROL LAWYER USES ‘RULE OF THE THIRD’ TO TAKE YOUR GUNS

04/24/2014

Community organizer and gun control activist Vincent DeMarco spoke at UNC Charlotte recently to kick off National Public Health Week. The attorney activist and President of Health Care for All has spent 30 years lobbying against tobacco, alcohol and gun rights associations under the guise of working on public health issues.

While addressing the group of 40 to 50 at the Student Union, the Maryland based “advocate” [DeMarco’s self-description] schooled attendees in the art of “Transforming Public Will into Political Power.”

DeMarco has devised a foolproof method of pressuring lawmakers into voting for policy that his groups create. He uses to his advantage election seasons when candidates are most vulnerable to public opinion. In addition, DeMarco’s six-step process to guarantee a win for his causes depends heavily on building coalitions, with faith leaders as the most critical members.

As national coordinator of Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, DeMarco calls on legislators in election years to support gun laws that require background checks, fingerprint licensing, and the sale of guns with no more than 10 rounds of magazine capacity.

DeMarco believes “very strongly…that assault rifles, like the ones used in Newtown, Aurora and by the DC sniper need to be banned.”

Moreover, FUPGV asserts: “We have a moral obligation to keep guns out of the hands of people who may harm themselves or others.” 

But gun rights advocates have a big problem with restricting gun rights on law-abiding citizens. 

A North Carolina concealed carry owner told this author he disagrees with fingerprint licensing because the state assumes he is a criminal before he even possesses a firearm.

Don Pomeroy, Secretary/Treasurer of Grass Roots NC and a member of the audience, weighed in with his take on DeMarco and his activism.

I was appalled that UNCC provided a forum for such a naked, biased agenda during its Public Health Week with no counterpoint whatsoever.  To see a taxpayer-funded university sponsor an event advocating the manipulation and control of taxpayers and their government representatives to further an agenda of control over the taxpayers dripped with irony and hypocrisy.  The sad icing on the cake was the apparent utter naïveté and ignorance of the UNCC public health studies department chair as to the essence of the DeMarco message.  Speaking to the department chair after the event was a true disappointment and demonstration of why our public education institutions are failing the taxpayers that support them.

…DeMarco’s scurrilous methods and in particular his gun-grabber agenda and penchant for legislatively stripping Second Amendment rights and natural liberties while trampling the Constitution.

In one of the six steps, DeMarco taught the audience how to use “The Rule of the Third” and how this plays into every decision you make in promoting your cause. The public is divided into thirds: the rabid supporters, those 100% against you, and the middle that may agree with you, but have some concerns. With respect to gun issues, he said: 

Your goal is to come up with a plan that motivates your base without turning off people in the middle. When you go to gun issues, before the Supreme Court decision that you can’t ban all guns, which I think is a great decision, before that there were people that wanted to ban all guns. Well, that may motivate the third of the rabid base, but it turns off people in the middle; you’re never going to get it done.

Fingerprint licensing of handgun purchasers – that is strong enough to motivate your base without turning off the people in the middle.

So, the community organizer is willing to trade an all-out ban [most likely what he eventually wants] for an incremental approach to gain the trust of “the middle.”

Will the “DeMarco factor” chip away at gun rights until we can no longer bear arms?

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