http://gunowners.org/pres08/mccain.htm
John McCain's Gun Control Problem
by John Velleco
Director of Federal Affairs
In 2000, Andrew McKelvey, the billionaire founder of
monster.com, threw
a sizable chunk of his fortune into the gun control debate.
It was shortly after the Columbine school shooting. Bill Clinton was in
the White House and gun control was daily front-page news. McKelvey
wanted in. He started out contributing to Handgun Control Inc., which
had since been renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But
while he agreed with their gun banning goals, McKelvey thought the way
they packaged their message was too polarizing.
"I told them that Handgun Control was the wrong name. I thought what
they were doing was great but I thought it could be done differently,"
McKelvey said.
So McKelvey struck out on his own and formed Americans for Gun Safety.
Although AGS shared almost identical public policy goals as other
anti-gun groups,
McKelvey portrayed the group as in the 'middle'...
