Posted on 07/16/2015 7:47:15 AM PDT by pabianice
...Unfortunately, the NRA has been working for years to make sure lunatics and felons can obtain guns as easily as possible... Then the NRA worked to weaken old rules barring the mentally ill from owning guns. In the past, because of concerns that an unbalanced person could relapse after treatment, the rules provided that anyone prohibited from having a gun for psychological reasons was banned forever. No more: Now a person committed to a mental hospital can, after getting out, petition a court for his guns. And by lobbying state legislatures, the NRA made sure psychiatric experts play a puny role in determining if a former mental patient should have a gun. Instead, in places like Idaho, state judges who are ill-equipped to make such a determination do it with no input from experts...
According to the NRA, every armed madman or criminal is a responsible, law-abiding good guy with a gun until the moment his first bullet splatters the walls with the brains and blood of innocent people.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I wonder if he thinks “crazy people” should have their voting rights taken and never given back as well.... Prolly not
I wonder if it ever occurs to them that they lost the argument about 30,000,000 gun owners ago?
FMCDH-BITS
Ja, ja, chust who ist das Eichenwald, anyvay?
My fractured German sez `Eichenwald’ means `oak forest’, but use of only the surname in his byline does have a Gestapo-like ring to it. Like signing for liquidation on a list of enemies of the state.
Crazy people and illegals should be able to vote, but not legal gun owners. Ban the guns and then onward to utopia!
eichenwald = oak forest in German
I fear that the louder the Liberal press shouts, the easier it be comes to move their agenda. Much like the press of the 30’s in Germany, the USSR, Italy and Japan. We have changed as a nation over the past 50 years, is this the America you were brought up in? I think not. Is it the best of times or are we slowly (or quickly) turning into a pile of..... ? I can’t believe how easy it is to mind control the masses via the media. Simple minds watching canned laughter, and viewing garbage on the video screen, so easy to convince them to accept a liberal agenda. OMG, we now have babies for sale, parts only? I’m sure the SCOTUS will have to decide on that too.
I read the opening BS lie that is the opening line of the article, and stopped there.
You can make a sort of argument for magazine limitations, and for universal background checks. But what is the argument against open carry?
It shows what the disarmists are afraid of. With concealed carry, they can claim the moral high ground, that being armed is something dangerous that people should be ashamed of.
They cannot do that with open carry, where people proudly assert their rights as a form of strong, symbolic, political speech, a combination of First and Second Amendment rights.
In response to your post,because of a computer error made in Washington state claiming that I did not pay a speeding ticket while on active duty at Ft. Lewis (which) I did!....after my active duty I was driving in Florida with my Massachusetts drivers license and my (in-state) Florida license ...I get pulled over for running a yellow/red light and informed that my license is suspended ??? ...for an unpaid traffic ticket in ...Washington state....before I got the state to remove the mistake IT made I received two more driving on a suspended license citations which Florida just made a FELONY....it took me SIX years to get the felony removed even after Florida rescinded the clarification ...so a felony is not what it used to be ...I voted anyway...what sotoreo is doing is lawless like every other action he has done...when will you freepers ( i being one ) learn that since bush senior it is a true free for all in our republic with now blatant pilfering and corruption the norm...after someone has served their sentence (except for murder/child abuse) they should have the right to vote.
What’s a Newsweek?
But Obama thinks felons should be allowed to vote. Otay.
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Felons, almost everywhere can vote already, once they have served their time. In Maine and Vermont, they can vote via absentee ballot, from their prison cells.
Look for your state laws here:
https://exoffenders.net/felon-voting-rights/
Is Newsweek still printing? Bet they are down to 10 pages by now.
If they only paid attention over the years, they would realize how self-defeating the NRA can be. They’ve supported far more “compromise” on my rights than I ever would agree to.
I read them in the torch lit cave under Washington's tomb.
I do not agree, but this is the author's reasoning:
The last compromise gun advocates should make is based on the words of that conservative hero, Ronald Reagan: “There is no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.” In his statement, issued as governor in May 1967, Reagan was referring to members of the Black Panther Party—Second Amendment absolutists—who walked into the California State House openly carrying rifles to protest a gun control bill.
Reagan’s statement—directed at those Black Panthers publicly brandishing their weapons—should be no different when applied to gun zealots walking through a Chili’s restaurant in San Antonio carrying long guns. Or the buffoon with an AR-15 loaded with a 100-round drum who last month walked around an Atlanta airport. Or the nitwit in Gulfport, Mississippi, who menaced shoppers at a Wal-Mart by loading and racking shells into a shotgun a few weeks ago, forcing an evacuation of the store. In all of these states, that near-sociopathic behavior was legal. But how can anyone tell whether these nincompoops parading around with their guns on display are merely acting like a 4-year-old proudly showing everyone his penis or constitute a deadly menace? Ask someone at the posh Omni Austin Hotel in Texas; earlier this month, a man walked around the lobby with a rifle, legally scaring people. Then he shot and killed someone.
Wrong. When the Constitution was written, it expressly included Letters of Marque and Reprisal... even before the Second Amendment was added. This was an explicit recognition of private ownership of BATTLESHIPS, and a request for the US government to hire those private weapons for the benefit of the nation.
In other words, he deliberately conflates open carrying with brandishing, uses sexual innuendo, and does not have a real argument, other than he does not like it.
Yes, the Black Panthers *brandished* their guns. It was a marvellous act of Alynski tactics, to push the legislature to pass more *gun control*.
It is hard to believe that the Panthers intended any other outcome, no matter how much they claim otherwise.
The Press does not have the right to use just ANY form of communication...
Just because Ronald Reagan said it does not mske it the gospel truth.
He was wrong.
Everyone is wrong sometimes.
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