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Posted on 12/31/2013 1:48:06 PM PST by Lazamataz
After the slaughter of innocents at Sandy Hook last December, the nation seemed poised to enact common-sense gun controls. Poll s showed that even the majority of gun owners and NRA members were in favor of such measures as universal background checks and the banning of some military style assault weapons. Then, while most of us were still reeling with shock, the NRA went into high gear. Wayne LaPierre was all over the airways sounding like a cross between Elmer Gantry and an Old Testament prophet warning of Armageddon. His message: The government was coming to confiscate our guns and deprive us once and for all of our Second Amendment rights.
After weeks of this, and despite President Obama’s assurances that the government did not want our guns and had no intention of messing with our right to own them, public opinion slowly but inexorably began to shift. Passionate arguments for these same modest gun control measures by the president and the parents of the murdered children fell on deaf ears. Congress listened to the gun lobby once again and decisively voted down the gun reforms.
And the n came the massacre at the Navy Yard — 12 dead, eight injured — and public reaction was not only muted, it was almost nonexistent. David Gregory on “Meet the Press” felt obliged to ask LaPierre: Is this the new norm? As if LaPierre had the answer. Indeed, I think he does.
We have to ask why the gun lobby’s arguments are so potent. How do they manage to override our common sense and evoke our deepest, most primitive fears —not once but time after time?
I have a theory. I believe the NRA is deliberately channeling the voices of those individuals and groups that exist on the extreme fringes of society; groups that have never had a legitimate platform for their loathsome views and paranoid fantasies until the NRA gave them one.
I’m talking about self-described racist skinheads, felons whose hatred of society was forged in prison, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and “doomsday” cultists like David Koresh, who provoked his own apocalypse at Waco. All have in common an unshakable belief that the federal government is the enemy.
And that’s the message the NRA is relentlessly insinuating into the lizard part of our brains: Hang on to your assault weapons, your .50-caliber bullets and your 100-round ammo clips. You’re going to need them when the government comes to take first your guns, then you, away.
Laz, be honest now. Was that picture before, or after?
She won't last long enough for the roundup. Obamacare will take her out well before that.
She's smiling, ain't she?
Haha!
Total left wing nut job. Hope she rots in hell.
Apparently she washes the prozac down with koolaid. Lots and lots of koolaid.
(Almost did a typo. Almost typed "kookaid." Very appropriate based on her article, not to mention her pic.)
Goodness! ...Stick an NRA poster over that face before it melts my 3D gun.
Every government does this. It’s granted power, it grows that power, then it abuses that power.
EVERY government.
And folks around here wonder why I hold the views I do. ;-)
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I wouldn’t wish that one anyone. But she probably will. (Not presuming to make God’s call on His behalf, but it is fairly obvious in this case.)
Until I can go into Walmart and buy a box of .22 LR ammo, I am going to assume that the federal govt. is indeed waging a war on gun owners. I could be wrong here, but that is the assumption that seems most appropriate.
Puritans desperately fear someone, somewhere might be enjoying life.
Paranoid message? It’s liberals that are paranoid... of guns.
Once they remove all the criminals in government,I might be willing to talk about it.
WOW!!!
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She got that one from the voices in her head, right?
That photo is from a Christian school in Arkansas.
No, Ronald is going “MOM! You’re EMBARASSING ME!”
And she birthed him looking the way he does now, like she was using Super Elastic Bubble Plastic to make condoms while porking one of Edisons or Tesla’s first electrical experiments...
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