Posted on 10/09/2015 3:09:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an effort to use the recent tragedy at Umpqua Community College to boost her political campaign, Hillary Clinton has been attacking the National Rifle Association for days. Earlier this week, the Democratic presidential candidate went so far as comparing the NRA to Iranian terrorists and communists during a town hall style campaign stop. From The Hill:
“You know, the NRA’s position reminds me of negotiating with the Iranians or the communists," Clinton said at an Iowa town hall on Wednesday.
The Democratic primary front-runner accused the nation's largest gun lobby of spreading propaganda to keep its dues-paying constituents paranoid.
“The NRA tries to keep gun owners — the ones who are members — really upset all the time so they can keep collecting their money, because they tell them they’re the only thing that’s going to stop the black helicopters from landing in the front yard and people’s guns being seized,” Clinton said. “That’s the argument they make. And it works with some people and it has turned a lot of people into absolutists themselves.”
A few thoughts:
1) When Hillary Clinton compares the NRA to the Iranian regime, which is responsible for the murders of hundreds of American citizens around the world, she's comparing Americans here at home to Iranian terrorists. The NRA isn't a boogy man, it's a grassroots organization made up of 5 million law abiding, Second Amendment supporters. Clinton is running for President of the United States, which means she's obligated to represent all Americans.
2) The NRA, not the anti-gun lobby which Clinton is a part of, has been responsible for getting mental health legislation passed in Congress and signed into law by previous presidents.
Since 1966, the National Rifle Association has urged the federal government to address the problem of mental illness and violence. As we noted then, “the time is at hand to seek means by which society can identify, treat and temporarily isolate such individuals,” because “elimination of the instrument by which these crimes are committed cannot arrest the ravages of a psychotic murderer.”[1]
More recently, the NRA has supported legislation to ensure that appropriate records of those who have been judged mentally incompetent or involuntarily committed to mental institutions be made available for use in firearms transfer background checks. The NRA will support any reasonable step to fix America’s broken mental health system without intruding on the constitutional rights of Americans.
Most recently, the NRA got behind new mental health legislation introduced by Texas Senator John Cornyn. Further, the NRA has dedicated millions of dollars and thousands of hours to firearms safety programs in every state across the country.
3) Clinton's anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment rhetoric might work in a far left primary, but it won't work in a general election. The number of Americans who believe gun rights should be protected now outweigh those who believe in new gun control measures.
4) Clinton supports the deal recently struck between the Iranians and the White House, so her comparison makes little sense based on her own arguments and positions.
5) If guns are the problem, when will Hillary demand her 24/7 security team stop carrying them for her protection?
It's easy to attack the NRA for political reasons, but it's hard to come up with real solutions to violence. I'll leave you with this:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
National Review
✔ @NRO
WATCH: Video compilation proves gun control advocates have
literally ZERO solutions http://bit.ly/1OXbvDl
9:14 PM - 6 Oct 2015
If true .... why won’t she fund the NRA like her administration funds Iranian terrorists ?
She is such a cunning runt ....
Stay Safe Hale !!!
Hey Buddy!!!!!!!!
Thanks for jumping in!!! Good to hear from you!
It’s good to know we live in their heads 24-7, isn’t it.
She can keep flapping her kipper lips. The NRA membership will just grow.
And Vote.
You know, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are the same thing, except Bernie has a bit of honesty.
Agree ..... she says politicizing loss of life in Benghazi is bad due her being responsible .... but politicizing NRA/Guns loss of lives is good for her election because she wasn’t responsible ..... get a clue Hillary then go save the gay whales for Allah and take a lesson (or two in her case) on how to suck start a 9mm..... just my opinion.....
“.....how to suck start a 9mm.....”
Chuckle, chuckle...
She’d miss......
LET US HEAR ALL OF HILLARY’S commie plans
tell us about your college papers, you know the commie related ones
HEY HILLARY.... GET YOURSELF A GOOD CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND LESS COMMIE TALK .... PLEASE....thanks
If ordinary American peasants made a citizen's arrest of the open and notorious felon Hillary Clinton, would her Secret Service gunthugs intervene to protect the criminal from the law-abiding?
Because the GOA doesn't cave. Doesn't give in. Not one millimeter.
But the NRA does. It appeases and tries to find "common ground" with the enemy, and supports leftists such as Harry Reid.
Fewer people walk out alive of Planned Parenthood’s smallest office every day than walk out of the National Rifle Association’s HQ all year long.
I wonder if they even know it exists? GOA is about 6% of the NRA membership size.
I compare Hillary to an alcoholic, a lesbian, a liar and an enabler of a serial sex offender and rapist!!!
Well, if the jackboot fits, and all that...
“...Debbie Wasserman Schultz ducked a question...”
I don’t know is she ducked it so much as she was genuinely stupid about the whole issue.
She’s not the brightest lightbulb on the string, you know. A couple french fries short of a Happy Meal, and all that.
Seen better heads on a mug of root beer.
The woman is stark raving mad!
It will be fun watching that witch lose again.
Who else the dems going to run /
They are stuck with her
I don’t care whether she’s the nominee, she is totally unlikeable and will stifle turnout.
She’s pretty easy to campaign against if the GOP doesn’t cower in the corner.
I live down the street from a guy who on occasion will place a crudely hand lettered cardboard sign stating “Goddamn the NRA!” in the back window of his pickup truck.
Reminds me of Jeremiah Wright.
I drive past and just shake my head and laugh.
My son is an NRA councilmember.
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