{"id":78473,"date":"2017-08-28T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=78473"},"modified":"2017-08-28T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T05:58:49","slug":"everytown-volunteer-pens-scathing-op-ed-feel-betrayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/everytown-volunteer-pens-scathing-op-ed-feel-betrayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Everytown Volunteer Pens Scathing Op-Ed: &#8216;I Feel Betrayed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_78474\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ranta.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"everytown-volunteer-pens-scathing-op-ed-feel-betrayed\" title=\"Everytown Volunteer Pens Scathing Op-Ed: 'I Feel Betrayed'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78474\" title=\"Everytown Volunteer Pens Scathing Op-Ed: 'I Feel Betrayed'\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ranta-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Everytown Volunteer Pens Scathing Op-Ed: 'I Feel Betrayed'\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ranta-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ranta-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ranta.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Ranta, a former advocate for the Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety. (<em>Photo: HuffPo<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everytown for Gun Safety styles itself as a \u201cmovement\u201d of \u201ceveryday Americans\u201d working together to make communities safer, but a recent op-ed from a former volunteer is calling that grassroots-led identity into question.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Ranta, a former Everytown Survival Fellow by virtue of a gunshot wound suffered at the hands of her estranged husband, published an op-ed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/as-a-gun-violence-survivor-i-feel-betrayed-by-everytown-for-gun-safety_us_59a04fe5e4b06d67e3375190\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"everytown-volunteer-pens-scathing-op-ed-feel-betrayed\" title=\"Everytown Volunteer Pens Scathing Op-Ed: 'I Feel Betrayed'\">Huffington Post<\/a> blasting the anti-gun organization\u2019s top-down bureaucratic structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, gun control groups like Everytown have implemented top-down organizational models that treat gun violence prevention advocates like servants and gun violence survivors like fundraising fodder, giving us little or no say in our own advocacy. That must end now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her consternation began after learning that Everytown sponsored the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) conference in 2015 and planned to do so again this year. Police organizations attract support from a wide variety of sectors, and this year\u2019s conference was also sponsored by the National Rifle Association, Beretta, and First Tactical.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering for an organization that planned to appear at the same conference as the NRA was too much for Ranta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing prepared me\u2026 for the Facebook post I saw this past weekend detailing Everytown\u2019s financial support of the FOP,\u201d she complained. \u201cA friend of mine was looking at FOP\u2019s website when she noticed that Everytown was listed as a sponsor of their upcoming national conference in Nashville \u2014 right alongside the NRA, First Tactical, and Beretta \u2014 the company that made the handgun my estranged husband shot me with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ranta complained to Everytown headquarters about the FOP\u2019s \u201cnoxious\u201d record promoting pro-gun legislation, but she was told to stop using \u201cinflammatory language\u201d and ordered to wait for Everytown to issue a statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Everytown caved to the pressure and pulled out of the conference. But instead of acknowledging their sin, they issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/everytown.org\/open-letter-fop\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"everytown-volunteer-pens-scathing-op-ed-feel-betrayed\" title=\"Everytown Volunteer Pens Scathing Op-Ed: 'I Feel Betrayed'\">statement<\/a> explaining that they left the FOP conference due to the inclusion of a Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer named Betty Shelby. In 2016 Shelby shot and killed an unarmed black man named Terence Crutcher, but was acquitted of all charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the inclusion of former officer Shelby is a gesture that will only inflame the divisions that exist between communities of color and law enforcement,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t good enough for Ranta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile yes, the participation of Officer Shelby in the conference (on a panel) is very disturbing, that is far from the only criticism that Everytown\u2019s volunteers and survivors have about the FOP,\u201d Ranta said. \u201cEven if Shelby had never been invited to this conference, Everytown\u2019s 2015 and 2017 sponsorship of the conference would have been wrong. That needs to be clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ranta resigned as an Everytown Survivor Fellow after being blocked by the Survivor Network Facebook page for voicing her concerns about the sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy conclusion is that dissenting voices have no place in these organizations. You toe the line or you\u2019re out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ranta ends her rant by encouraging her readers to join \u201cauthentic\u201d anti-gun organizations that \u201ctruly run from the local level\u201d and don\u2019t take advantage of survivors and their stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy conclusion is that dissenting voices have no place in these organizations. 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