It's been a bit since we talked about the group 97Percent. This is a gun control organization that has a history of pretending that they speak not just for the gun control side, but even most gun owners.
The last time I mentioned them was back in September 2025, when one of their trainers tried to defend the failures of red flag laws in Minneapolis by claiming the issue was that people didn't act, without recognizing the irony of blaming people while trying to skirt blaming other people.
Regardless, in that piece, I quoted a bit by a guy named Chris Carita, who was described as a former police officer and senior trainer at 97Percent.
It seems that Carita has moved up in the organization.
It appears the anti-gun nonprofit 97Percent has returned, although there have been massive internal changes and it is much less now than it used to be.
We haven’t heard much from them since they plagiarized photos of top female shooters to gaslight the public into believing they were not an anti-gun group.
97Percent’s one time executive director, Elizabeth Troye—once a senior advisor to Vice President Mike Pence—has been scrubbed from the group’s website.
In her place is Christopher Carita, an ex-cop who just last year was denied a disability pension by Fort Lauderdale’s Police and Firefighter Pension Board by a 4-3 vote. Apparently, a majority of the board members didn’t believe Carita was suffering from PTSD, because his application did not meet the criteria for being “service connected, permanent and total.”
Carita’s takeover appears to be solely to increase support for his current work, which is holding classes on “red flag” laws, which he calls Extreme Risk Protection Orders, or ERPOs.
Carita, it should be pointed out, is a huge ERPO proponent, even though they are only law in 21 states.
Other than advocating for Carita’s classes and workshops, 97Percent’s website has, for now, remained mostly the same.
What that means is that 97Percent is just bumping up how much they push ERPOs, but not backing down on the fact that there's literally no bit of gun control they're not fully in support of.
This is a group that has continued to pretend that it speaks for the vast majority of Americans, including gun owners, while advocating for things that absolutely no poll has ever shown gun owners support for.
That's because the group's history has been nothing but an attempt to gaslight the American public about what they stand for and who really supports their cause.
Carita's new gig is probably a good thing for him financially since his disability claim failed to go where he wanted it, but I honestly don't care that much about that. What I care about is the warped idea that they can keep pretending to represent people they don't.
Carita even claims he wants to bring gun owners to the table, all while the organization he now heads continues to push things like permit-to-purchase and permit-to-possess laws. You know, some of the most extreme anti-gun measures out there, and that's just the tip of the iceberg with them.
Sorry, but while I respect law enforcement, I have no use for an anti-gun cop who is now peddling gun control as a career. It started with David Chipman, but it won't end with Christopher Carita.
May everyone at 97Percent go and pound sand.
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