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Gary Williams said, 5 months ago
Why don’t we just forget all this and move on, we all know nothing is going to change. Humans are nothing more than walking apes with better weapons
Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago
The NRA provides education and gun safety. Just another liberal hate campaign.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Maybe, JUST MAYBE, if the leadership of the N.R.A. would start to promote that fact as much as they seem to be screaming about any new legislation, the general public might be inclined to have a more sympathetic and supportive view of the organization.
Just a thought…
ansonia
said, 5 months ago
@masterskrain
The NRA are protecting our second amendment rights. They do promote gun safety and responsibillity, you just don’t hear about that because the Left loves the “If it bleeds, it leads” type stories to promote their agenda to prove that the only thing that will work is gun control, which they cleverly have begun calling “gun violence prevention.”
There is a concerted effort to demonize the NRA, so there is an enemy to go after. It would be too difficult to actually attack the problem – the individuals who don’t care about any laws, much less gun laws.
Thank God for the NRA. They are protecting our Constitutional rights.
Dale Netherton said, 5 months ago
Its the same old story of the Old West. We are a peace loving town but we need a man with a gun to protect our sorry fantasy when the bad guys show up. The job of keeping the peace was a man with a gun. How hard is that to understand?
Adrian Snare said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima
The NRA has become a sick and corrupted organization consisting of fearful individuals..I am not a member but I have been thru the education process…Lets have some truth here, NOT NRA propaganda.
JPTewel said, 5 months ago
Here’s the text of the Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Where in that text does it say a citizen may have an assault weapon? A 100 round magazine? Armor piercing bullets? Dum-dum bullets? NRA and other gun nuts would say it all comes under the “right of the people to keep and bear arms”. Fine. Let’s go by what was available in the late 1700’s when this amendment was written and passed by the states. Arms can mean a sword, a blunderbuss, a carbine, a flintlock, a musket, or a sabre.
Adrian Snare said, 5 months ago
@Dale Netherton
And that man is a policeman, a professional….Do you comprehend this.
BTW, the year is 2013, NOT 1813.
Things change.
Omnius said, 5 months ago
The NRA needs to be designated as a terrorist organization because it’s responsible for so many needless gun deaths. Only criminals and cowards, like Miss Ima, need assault weapons and high capacity magazines.
dfrechet said, 5 months ago
Sounds like you are the one full of hate and anger; I just hope you don’t try to prove it by taking it out on someone to exercise your “freedom” of speech…..
You need a tranquilizer and a time out.
midaswelby said, 5 months ago
@JPTewel
Using exactly the same argument, the 1st Amendment wouldn’t apply to TV, radio, telegraph, fax, or the Internet, would it?
When all those who want restrictions on the 2nd amendment abandon communication technology and take quill to parchment and go back to distributing copies made on a printing press, I’ll believe your sincerity.
Until then, I can only be amazed at your logic, and not in a good way.
mikefive said, 5 months ago
“Mrs. Ima – you’re still a little whiny b1tc#!!!”
♦
I seldom comment on trollish comments, but yours is so exceptional and you made so many of them that I have to congratulate you. Unfortunately, you sort of ruined the whole theme with the last sentence.
SaltWaterCroc said, 5 months ago
We have the ATF. Of course Congressman Sensenbrenner inserted a requirement that the ATF director has to be confirmed by the Senate (into the Patriot Act, 2006), so there has not been an ATF Director in 6 years. Congressman Tiahrt, 10 years ago, inserted into a spending bill an amendment (sponsored by the NRA) restrictions on the ATF. This bill severely restricted the ATF’s ability to do what the NRA says they want them to do, which is enforce existing gun laws. It allowed dealers to ignore police requests for assistance. It denied Congress formerly public crime gun data. It ended the oversight of used firearm sales. It required the destruction of background check records within 24 hours. The ATF has the same number of agents now that it had 40 years ago. It’s time to take gun control away from the NRA (gun manufacturers) and move it back to the federal government, where it belongs. Self-regulation does not work.
stevenjohns said, 5 months ago
@JPTewel
I agree with you absolutely 100% — until your last two sentences, which totally ruined the post.
The Constitution’s right to bear arms was tied to “regulated militias” before there was a standing Army. There is no right of the people to bear arms apart from that!
Dycel
said, 5 months ago
@ansonia
Ok ansy we get the rhetoric point but you obviously don’t understand the reality of the situation.
I was a member of the NRA in 1958 then they promoted gun safety including advocating for gun safety laws under the 2nd amendment.
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By 1977 they were hijacked by the current controlling hierarchy and utilized as the repubby’s war chest for idiots to raise an army of chicken littles who’s the sky is falling mantra “they’re going to take your guns away” started.
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These devoted follower’s, paranoid mindless minions of irrational fear and loathing who will at the drop of the mantra give billions of dollars to stop the dreaded government and give the repubby candidates a financial foot up have been trained to ignore common sense and self preservation the original objective of the NRA.
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But you and the rest of the faux noise bus flunkies still heavily under the thumb of the black hole of denial mantra plot at the back of the bus to save? your “rights” and prove your idiots.