Rolling Stone Writer: NRA the ‘Greatest Threat to Our Homeland Security’

NewsBusters.org ^ | June 19, 2016 | Tom Johnson

[Kaslin]

Omar Mateen claimed at various times to be aligned with terrorist groups including ISIS, Hezbollah, and the al-Nusra Front. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson does not consider any of those bloodthirsty outfits “the greatest threat to our homeland security today.” That description, Dickinson argues, best fits the National Rifle Association. “The NRA's unhinged gun advocacy,” he wrote in a Wednesday article, “has created a soft underbelly to our homeland security that radicals are exploiting to inflict mass murder.”

Dickinson declared, “Make no mistake: The NRA paved the way for the Orlando attack,” given that

-- “

The NRA's lobbyists and political allies fought for a raft of permissive state gun laws, turning Florida in particular into the ‘Gunshine State.’"

-- “The gun lobby's gusher of campaign cash and threats of electoral retribution cowed our federal leaders into inaction…even in the face of the slaughter of first graders [and] an assassination attempt on a member of Congress.”

-- “The NRA's politicking has warped the Constitution itself. [The] 2008 Supreme Court decision [in District of Columbia v. Heller] recast the Second Amendment as a guarantee of individual gun rights. Today, the NRA's top Senate allies are blocking a Supreme Court nominee who could limit or reverse that decision.”

Like Dickinson, Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick detests the Heller decision; she asserted in a Monday article that “the current interpretation of the Second Amendment…is a hoax. Outside of the GOP, this is widely understood.”

Lithwick sees our present-day gun laws as not just wrong but perverse (bolding added):

When my son asked me why we shoot each other dead almost every day in America, I got to tell him that it’s because we are “free”…

…We are free to feel paralyzed and trapped in a system that is literally killing us…

…We are also captive to the notion that as much as we wish someone would do something about all the innocent dead people, our hands are tied by the freedom-affording gift that is the Second Amendment. It is a sick joke of our democracy that after every mass shooting we must tell our children that the Framers gave us this precious gift of liberty, more valuable than their lives, and that we are stuck with it. This is the opposite of freedom. It is slavery by choice.

[Kaslin]

The rest of the title is and ‘Paved the Way For the Orlando Attack

[himno hero]

What?
Have the muslims (and marxists) declared America their homeland?

[kingu]

How about the Housewares department at Macy’s? I understand they’re still selling weapons of mass destruction, colloquially known as pressure cookers.

Had the terrorist brought a couple of those instead to the club, there would have been many more deaths.

But hey, let’s blame the sexy guns, not the terrorist, because that’s what liberals do.

[ozzymandus]

I’m sick and tired of these girly-men attacking my Constitutional rights. I’m a Life Member of the NRA.

[VRW Conspirator]

I’m sick and tired of these girly-men attacking my Constitutional rights. I’m a Life Member of the NRA.

The good news is that the girly-men will be the first to die come the Zombie Apocalypse.

[G Larry]

Anybody looking to Rolling Stone for truth is already lost.

[Chode]

feh...

[Bryanw92]

>>It is a sick joke of our democracy that after every mass shooting we must tell our children that the Framers gave us this precious gift of liberty, more valuable than their lives, and that we are stuck with it.

The sick joke is that this mangina actually got the right answer in this quote.

The Founding Fathers did think that liberty was more valuable than individual lives. So, they enshrined a right to keep and bear arms, knowing that some arms would be used for evil but the overall possession of arms by the population would be good in the balance.

The sick joke is that the Progressives do nothing to stop the bad people. They ship in terrorists and criminals. They celebrate mental illness. They teach boys to be weak and feminine. And, they post “No guns” signs so that good people can’t have guns, but bad people can walk right in and start shooting.

[butlerweave]

Rolling Stone is still in business ?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Do they still publish false rape stories from colleges, and do they still publish puff pieces about the Boston Marathon bombers????

[Fiddlstix]

Rolling Stone Writer: NRA the ‘Greatest Threat to Our Homeland Security’

Geee....
So The NRA has been a Threat since 1871!
Who Knew?

[ozzymandus]

Maybe sooner than that.

[CGASMIA68]

RS was good when it was a Rock and Roll goto rag for music info,charts etc.

Its now a liberal rag not worthy of being used to wipe my butt

[Fred Hayek]

And Salon.com takes it even further blaming Orlando on “toxic masculinity”. The Left is working to change this nation into a collection of nancy boys and man hating wymyn.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Islam is the threat.

Everything else is obfuscation of that fact.

Convenient way to disarming Americans.

That paves the way for . . . . . . . . . .

[Trod Upon]

The oldest civil rights organization in the country is the “greatest threat to homeland security?” I find it difficult to fathom such a degree of stupidity. You couldn’t pay me to read that ridiculous rag.

[circlecity]

Says the magazine that publishes fraudulent rape stories as fact.

[wastoute]

What an endorsement. This libtard is whining because if not for the NRA all his libtard wet dreams would have come true by now and the only impediment between this moron snowflake and free healthcare, free college, free anything else anyone else has is the NRA. Well God Bless the NRA and thanks Dad for suggesting I join.

He is so stupid he fails to grasp that if not the NRA millions of gun owners would join together in some organization with a different or possibly THE SAME name.

So let me translate from incomprehensible libtard vocalizations to plain English. “If only we could have the re-education camps in place and murdered 25 million of these knuckle dragging conservatives we could have saved the lives of 49 homos.”

I don’t care if he is too stupid to realize that is what I am hearing when he starts bleating for gun control. I quit trying to debate these morons years ago. I must be getting crotchety in my old age because as God is my witness if I ever again hear a libtard bleating for gun control I hear that as a DEATH THREAT and I am just about certain that is how I would respond.

[ctdonath2]

The Left can only enforce the ban thru threat of violence.
What they want to ban is what we own precisely to stop threat of violence.
They need to grasp where this goes.

[GregoTX]

A moslem that wanted to an isis soldier made the attack.

The aclu blamed the christian right

rolling stone magazine blames the NRA.

makes sense