Right...because it worked so well the last time it was tried.
Posted on 11/22/2013 10:29:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When I first saw this clip from Katie Pavlich, it reminded me of my own interview with Richard Dreyfuss nearly three years ago on the need to educate on civics and civility. Dreyfuss appears to have taken those issues to heart here in his appearance last night on Piers Morgan Tonight, in which he tells a somewhat stunned Morgan,” I don’t think the NRA is a villain.” And he directly rebuked Morgan’s entire oeuvre on the topic with his explanation — “I believe that’s a problem of the press, which started with an ‘us-them’ problem.”
It’s an interesting platform on which to make that argument, I’d say:
As for Dreyfuss’ proposal, it’s equal parts fantasy and well-intentioned ignorance. First, the NRA is a private organization, not a governmental bureaucracy. They don’t own warehouses in which to store illegal weapons, whether on a “short list” or a long list. Dreyfuss mentions that we should look at guns like cars, but AAA doesn’t provide drivers licenses nor garage services for people who don’t qualify to drive. Law enforcement responsibility is always a governmental task, for very good reason — we don’t want private police enforcing private law, no matter whether we like their mission or not.
Second, as Katie points out, the NRA already trains people on safe weapon use — nearly a million people a year, actually:
In civilian training, the NRA continues to be the leader in firearms education. Over 50,000 Certified Instructors now train about 750,000 gun owners a year. Courses are available in basic rifle, pistol, shotgun, muzzleloading firearms, personal protection, and even ammunition reloading. Additionally, nearly 1,000 Certified Coaches are specially trained to work with young competitive shooters. Since the establishment of the lifesaving Eddie Eagle® Gun Safety Program in 1988, more than 12 million pre-kindergarten to sixth grade children have learned that if they see a firearm in an unsupervised situation, they should “STOP. DON’T TOUCH. LEAVE THE AREA. TELL AN ADULT.” Over the past seven years, Refuse To Be A Victim® seminars have helped more than 15,000 men and women develop their own personal safety plan using common sense strategies.
As for “taking care of this problem,” the NRA has little power to do much more than it already does. Morgan would like it to capitulate to gun seizures, which its membership will never do. The NRA can and should lobby Congress to look for better ways to assess and treat mental illness, which is usually the root cause in mass shootings, and enforce laws on the books before encroaching further on the rights of people already abiding by the law. Following up on failed background checks might be one productive area for law enforcement, but that is not the NRA’s job — nor should it be.
Ugh. Piers Morgan. Hard for me to think of that man without wanting to vomit.
The Brits ran him out for a reason. We should too.
Richard Dreyfuss: If GOP doesn’t help fix Obamacare, should anticipate ‘the sick and the dying and the dead on their lawn’
The Second Amendment CLEARLY protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. If the Founders wished to protect the right of Militias to store arms in locked armories, they knew how to say it.
It's ludicrous to suggest that our Founders, who had to fight their own government to retain their arms, would enumerate a power of the government to take them away.
I dunno; in light of the nuclear option, the NRA’s endorsement of Reid looms even larger.
Very well said. Thanks.
Awesome. The punk in the orange T shirt got whacked by the crippled store clerk. Permanently it looks like.
From the angle, it looks like the shot might have gone right through orange-shirt’s descending aorta.
Game over chump. Have a nice long nap.
It’s dawning on Hollywood conservatives are half the population.
We’re having the kids - AND we’re rejecting movies for ourselves and our families. We reject people who show in their ‘art’ that they hate us. How many Jews in Hitler’s Germany would have been ‘entertained’ by German movies that showed them to be stupid or base?
Hollywood hates conservatives. We got their message.
Doooown he goes, instantly. It looks like a head shot or right through the heart. Oh yeah and look at the start, he cuts the guys throat when he first walks in. That would have been two murders but unfortunately for him he met the 2nd amendment
>>It’s dawning on Hollywood conservatives are half the population.
We’re having the kids - AND we’re rejecting movies for ourselves and our families. We reject people who show in their ‘art’ that they hate us. How many Jews in Hitler’s Germany would have been ‘entertained’ by German movies that showed them to be stupid or base?<<
Really, are you sure conservative Jews comprise 50% of the Jewish community? I think it is more like 15%, if we’re lucky.
He wasn’t talking about Jews, he was using them as an analogy. He was saying conservatives are 50% of Americans.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Nah, I was saying conservatives in the United States are half the population. And that we don’t go to movies because we’re presented in such a bad light...
Over the years, I have had numerous FReepers tell me that only 15% of Jewish voters are Conservatives. I have to agree with them considering how many vote for Dims. I personally only know four who I consider as solid conservatives. I deal with too many who support Obama when he came into the light.
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