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.
OK, but only if you take the guns from all the criminals first....
Very much agreed ping. It’s high time we started using that term for our side:
As in the:
Commonsense Civil Right of Self-Defense [CCSD]
“Man, in must be hard pushing one of those into an SKS! “
Not really, fit one and start stuffing 10 round stripper clips into it. Got a couple of the fifty rounders, stripper clips fill it just as nicely as they do the stock ten round clip.
A guy on ar15.com bought a gift NRA membership for obama. He took screen shots of the online purchase.
If you bought a membership for 0bama using each of his SS #s it could run up quite a bill! lol
A voice of reason cries out from the darkness - the tendrils that compose the darkness try to extinguish the light of reason.
That about sums it up in terms of Right vs. Left - we need some brighter lights...
THE BLAZE
‘Looks Like Weimar Germany’: The Viral Photo Out of Connecticut That’s Giving Some Gun Owners Chills Dec. 31, 2013 10:32pm Jason Howerton
A now-viral photo showing a long line of Connecticut residents waiting to register their guns and ammo is circulating across the Internet — and it’s sending chills down the backs of some gun owners. 
Via: http://www.theblaze.com 
Moonbats in the media, linked to their own stoopid words, should be well known.
Thanks, and thanks for the starting picture of the moonbat.
Woe to all who look upon her gaze...
"Trust the government, they said..."
To the White Hut with her! First row, Helen Thomas Memorial Throne!
Misery loves company and Obama could use help.
OK, so all you have to do is not register gun owners like Hitler did Jews, and the NRA's fears will be proven to be groundless. Since your fate on this issue is in your own hands, and it's so easy to disprove their paranoia, why are you blaming them?
No, not even then. Not even if you're including government employees in your definition of "criminals".
Besides, even if every word except "Good Morning" out of that guy's mouth wasn't a lie, what about the next POTUS? The law wouldn't automatically sunset just because The Won leaves office. Sooner or later someone will arrive on the scene who would abuse the law. The only way to make sure they don't is not to pass it in the first place.
EPA and the Sierra Club'd be all over for endangering a species and violating the crows' civil rights.
Well, sure. If the feds kill you, that sanctifies the killing. If you're not a fed and you kill 20 kids, then THAT's bad. SO bad that we should violate the civil rights of all the people who didn't do it.
its a way to convince them- when they try to take guns from criminals they will see why WE need them...
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