A leading gun control group on Monday blamed the fatal shooting last week of five police officers in Dallas, Texas on the ‘gun lobby.’
In an email to supporters on Monday, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said the shooting in Dallas, as well as the police-involved shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, are a part of the ‘gun lobby’ vision for America.
"This is the gun lobby’s vision of America becoming reality," Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign, said in the email. "It’s a twisted vision of a nation where every man, woman, and child is armed to the teeth–and where people solve problems with bullets instead of words."
"We must do better," the email said.
The Brady Campaign went on to say the gun industry is making it easy for dangerous people to get guns.
"That means engaging in two important and related conversations," Gross said. "One conversation must examine how the gun industry and its political lap dogs have made it too easy for dangerous people to arm the worst side of themselves–their racism, fear, bigotry, anger, and hate. The other must look at how gun violence and racism collide to disproportionately terrorize communities of color."
"We can do better and we must do better to protect every American. Through sensible policy and thoughtful discourse, we can keep guns out of the hands of the hateful and those who seek to act on their anger by pulling a trigger," Gross added.
The email included links for recipients to share the message on social media and a link to a donation page on the Brady Campaign website.
Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, responded to the email by saying guns are not the problem.
"This statement proves that the gun prohibitionists think owning one gun is being ‘armed to the teeth’ and gun ownership is the reason why we have violent crime," he said to the Washington Free Beacon. "I have never met a gun with a brain to hate or a finger to pull its own trigger. If owning a gun for self-defense is bad then why do our police carry one?"