Posted on 11/15/2012 11:56:37 AM PST by neverdem
The NRA has been saying all along that Barack Obama would unleash an assault on our Second Amendment freedoms if he won a second term. It sure didn’t take long for him to prove us right.
Just hours after Obama won re-election last Tuesday, his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year. The official starting point for the new talks is last year’s failed draft, which contains provisions that threaten our sovereign right to keep and bear arms through an international gun registration scheme.
And not long after Obama floated the idea of banning semi-automatic firearms, we learned that California Senator Dianne Feinstein was working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to draft new legislation that would ban semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns, so-called “high capacity” magazines, and rifles and shotguns with pistol grips. Reportedly, Feinstein wants to make it illegal not just to sell your guns and magazines, but to leave them behind in your will.
Not surprisingly, the lights had hardly gone out at Obama’s victory celebration last week when gun-hating New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with his pollster, Frank Luntz, were conducting push polls to promote government control over every firearm transfer — including between fathers and sons, and grandfathers and grandsons.
In Bloomberg’s world, a child wouldn’t be able to tear the wrapping paper off his first .22 rifle on Christmas morning unless Santa Claus had first cleared it with Obama’s bureaucrats.
I know a lot of folks are still down about last week’s presidential election. It’s puzzling how so many Americans can tell pollsters that the country is on the wrong track, then vote to keep the same guy driving the train.
But this isn’t the first time in history when gun owners and NRA members have faced a difficult challenge, and it won’t be the first time we’ve risen to the occasion and come out victorious. The Second Amendment wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for the courage of tens of millions of gun owners and freedom-loving Americans across our nation, and throughout our history.
As long as dedicated patriots continue to band together and fight as though freedom itself is on the line — because it is — we will defend the Second Amendment in Obama’s second term and save it for generations to come.
For gun owners, the next four years won’t just be the fight of our lives, it will be a fight for the future of our nation. We’re ready to lead the charge.
Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.
We knew it. I am an NRA member.
“Does the NRA still support Harry Reid ?”
Harry Reid has been Senate Majority Leader for 7 years now. During that time he has not allowed a single peice of anti gun legislation to come to the floor for a vote. So your idea is for the NRA to make him an enemy? Brilliant!
And BTW, the NRA did not support him in his last election. They didn’t endorse anyone.
So where do you think the Senate Republicans will be?
“So where do you think the Senate Republicans will be?”
Locked out. I thought this would be funny but come to think of it they might try.
I wasn’t saying to make Reid an enemy, I was just asking if he was still an ally of the NRA.
Lighten up Francis.
Because they are saying whatever...but voting in lockstep?????
True. But any funds for enforcement have to originate in the House. But it would be preferable to get/keep enough pro-gun Senators to block action there as well.
Meanwhile, he spent the last year in the Senate supporting Harry Reid and Barack 0bama.
I'm not impressed.
That's what they SHOULD do when both candidates are pro-gun.
Sorry I misinterpreted your post. There were tons of the “I’ll never give another dime to the NRA” crowd calling for just that a couple of years ago.
Yes, the key would be in stopping the treaty in the first place. Otherwise, the House will cut funding about as well as they have with Obamacare.
The NRA can talk a good game....
But when it comes down to it...they will support Dims. WHY?
This is what I answered:
"Why do you think over 60 rats sent a letter telling Holder to pound sand as far as a renewal of a so called "assault weapon" ban in March 2009? If the NRA supports a rat who (is) solid on the Second Amendment, then that's OK with me. That's all I expect of the NRA, taking care of the Second Amendment."
They are not a GOP subsidiary. Their policy of endorsing incumbents who are just as solid on the Second Amendment as a GOP challenger is logical, even if I don't like it.
“Obama, Romney, they’re both the same. Romney would have done this.”
No he wouldn’t. You’re lying like a rug.
But don't you see? Those same rats, while they passed your test on guns, probably voted FOR Obamacare, increased taxes, etc - everything that makes a rat a rat, and sinks our country.
We can't be single issue voters any more - not that it matters any longer...
When are NRA endorsed rats voting for gun grabbing? The NRA downgraded any rat member of the Senate who voted for Sotomayor or Kagan, IIRC.
Just read you said your Romney statement was sarcasm. No one would know that unless you tag it as such. Otherwise you reap the results of not doing so, which is heavy fire back at you. Best you get the /s out of the alphabet and use it next time, lol.
Just read you said your Romney statement was sarcasm. No one would know that unless you tag it as such. Otherwise you reap the results of not doing so, which is heavy fire back at you. Best you get the /s out of the alphabet and use it next time, lol.
I'm not, but a gun grabbing pubbie can go play with their anatomy. I want the NRA to be a single issue organization.
My experience is if someone is good on the 2nd Amendment, then about 9 out of 10 times they're conservative or libertarian. I can live with most of the latter. They're usually limited gov't types.
ANY vote or support of a DemoSocialistMarxistLiberal is a vote AGAINST our country. That's my opinion.
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