NRA Statement

[wtr100]

Ok lads - it's letters to the editor time

Batteries released - fire at will

[kmitch200]

IMO, it now puts the anti-gun crowd in a box.  If they refuse to support the NRA's new shield program, they obviously don't care about the safety, welfare and protection of children as they claim.  Love it.

Yes, it certainly does.
Shrieking about GUNS! and not adressing fixing the problem is the anti's specialty.

(may they rot in hell and sodomized by Satan with a barbwire covered penis for eternity)
I hope that didn't sound insensitive.

on eidt: Leaving the video game crap out of it would have been a good thing IMHO. They might as well have added listening to rock & roll to the list too....

[mrmatt2you]

I thought he did a great job today.   I liked how he not only defended the NRA but guns.   They came out with a strong game plan and I think they are this fight for the long haul.   I do wonder how many people who own guns in swing states that went Blue wish they could change their votes now.   

[JdePietro]

I thought it was a well crafted argument but I agree they should have left the entertainment industry out of it. People who a deranged enough to be influenced by video games and movies are not mentally sound. I am surprised they did not address the growing issue of mental health care in America. I guess I'll chalk it up to them being an organization that deals with firearms and not mental illness. So perhaps refraining from that subject was smart.

All in all it was a good moral boosting piece now we just need to grass roots the crap out of our legislators and let them know that we will not be quite in the wake of their agenda.

Happy Holidays all!!!

[tombogan03884]

It comes to late.
This is what happens when you give you enemy a week head start in the information war.
We already lost, the only question is how much.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/december_2012/55_favor_assault_weapons_ban_but_62_oppose_complete_gun_ban

Friday, December 21, 2012

Most Americans favor taking semi-automatic and assault-type weapons off the market but also are wary of a society in which only the government has guns. Very few would opt for a neighborhood where they couldn’t own a gun. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 55% of American Adults think there should be a ban on the purchase of semi-automatic and assault-type weapons. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree and oppose such a ban. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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[jaybet]

I thought it was a well crafted argument but I agree they should have left the entertainment industry out of it. People who a deranged enough to be influenced by video games and movies are not mentally sound. I am surprised they did not address the growing issue of mental health care in America. I guess I'll chalk it up to them being an organization that deals with firearms and not mental illness. So perhaps refraining from that subject was smart.

All in all it was a good moral boosting piece now we just need to grass roots the crap out of our legislators and let them know that we will not be quite in the wake of their agenda.

Happy Holidays all!!!

He did mention that the US needs a national database for mentally disturbed individuals, but never revisited the statement.

[jaybet]

A couple of the central NJ rag newspapers have already come out with editorials blasting the NRA for not supporting a gun ban(Ha...what did they THINK we'd say?) and the other I read said, "It doesn't matter what the NRA says".

That's the typical attitude right there...there is NO discussion. We're right and anyone who disagrees is an idiot and a baby killer.

They can all go pound sand.

[MikeBjerum]

Tom,

It isn't too late.  He expressed the respect I anticipated, and he spoke at a time that is closer to when emotions on the fringes are starting to settle.

Today's local daily has a report that two of our Second Amendment DFLers who parrotted the DFL statement last weekend are now stating that they do not believe that a ban will or would have helped.  They are both citing the Clinton ban of 1994, and how a decade of ban had no affect then or since.

Knee jerk reflex is still happening in some parts, but cooler heads are beginning to return.  I don't know that the timing is perfect, but today is better than last Monday would have been.

[1Buckshot]

So lets see. the poll states that 55%  of americans think all semi-auto weapons should be band. The big word here is ALL. No semi hand guns, No semi shotguns, No semi Rifles. Sounds alot like other countries bans.  Just how many of this 55% have one ore more of these semi-auto weapons at home.

[blackwolfe]

The entertainment industries will be off the table in any solutions.  They spent $40 million in campaign contributions more than twice the amount of the NRA.

The entertainment industries basically have an unlimited and open ended propaganda machine with all the entertainment news shows, and media outlets hanging onto and reporting every little vitriol tidbit of rhetoric the "star" utters.  Additionally the writer and producers insert the anti gun, bad gun, drivel into the shows.  The anti gun propaganda machine is the Terminator on steroids that demonizes and stomps on any one that is contrary to their anti message and has the resources to do it.  We are David vs. Goliath.