The NRA’s fearful mission
By Ken Wilson
Gun ownership in America was never an issue of fear and hate until the National Rifle Association created its own tax-exempt foundation to promote gun marketing.
Huge amounts of cash from this foundation is funneled to the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action to write legislation preventing government from considering public safety laws related to gun violence.
Wilson lives in Martinsville.
March 7, 2013 - 7:57 AM
Thats alot of donation $$$$$..Waht does that tell ya ? Alot of people like guns, obviously. A 15-shot Glock ? Much rather have my 19-shot GB Steyr.
“Gun violence in America is a product of greed in the marketplace and phantom fear directed toward the uninformed and those with excessive levels of testosterone.”
You could not be further from the truth in your statement and this one here proves it. gun violence in America is a product of the mental health system and the lax enforcement of current laws. It is also a product of the Hollywood and internet that glorifies such violence but all liberals do not want to face that fact. But instead want to blame inanimate objects and organizations that promote gun safety for the violence. Then they wonder why it keep occuring. Whenever law makers and those trying to take the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizen realize that all they are doing is contributing to the problem then and only then will the problem be solved. what is proposed right now will not work and even the Vice President has admitted it will not prevent one single killing. Sorry the problem is right in front your eyes but you fail to see it.
…Guess thats better than `excessive levels of Estrogen`. Once again, a leftist makes up a story so as not to have to deal with the reality involved…Potstech hits the `nail on the head`….especially Hollywierd….those blatent hypocrites scream out against gun violence and then turn around and produce the most violent garbage imaginable. I haven`t been in a movie theatre in over 4 years and will never go in one again. I chose NOT to give my $$ to Hollyweird….I urge each and every one of you to do the same. Boycott that trash. Find a substitute for the theatre,,its easy and you won`t miss it.
#2 So the answers are better mental health services and better law enforcement. Are you ready to pony up the additional income and sales tax to fund those things? Willing to put your money where your mouth is? Yes or no.
Interesting study: http://news.yahoo.com/more-gun-laws-fewer-deaths-50-state-study-224508338.html
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“More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says”
Even many gun owners and gun rights advocates realize there is a problem.
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It is hiding your head in some sand to think that the majority of gun violence is about “mental health” issues or anything other than the hot-headed, angry, belligerent, criminal minded and control freaks who think that guns help them “solve” problems.
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Calling the NRA or VCDL “organizations that promote gun safety” is just not honest.
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Whenever gun rights advocates and those trying to make guns easier to get realize that all they are doing is contributing to the problem, then maybe the problem be solved. It has no hope of a solution as long as they refuse to face the truth.
#5 Have you read the article you cite? If not, perhaps you should.
I would highlight all the verbatim refererences as to it’s bogus “analysis” but that would simply be repeating the article.
As Mrs. Saunders in effect suggests…..yes all, please read the article.
What’s the difference between the NRA and the Sierra Club?
They both have an agenda and solicit donations and use member dues to promote that agenda through lobbying. They both promote legislators and legislation that supports their stated mission.
At least the NRA does offer gun safety classes around the country. Do public schools teach gun safety? Or do they just expel 6 and 8 year olds that point their finger at a fellow student and say “bang” while playing “cowboys” during recess? Or worse yet, draw a picture of a gun?
Beam me up Scottie, there is no intelligent life down here!
Funny how you both ignored this part of his truthful commentary:
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“Anybody with average intelligence should know that local, state and federal governments couldn’t possibly take 350 million guns from the American people without a fight, regardless of the NRA or any other extreme gun-rights organization.”
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No one needs the NRA to fight for gun rights, they are in the constitution and they are here to stay. What the NRA does, as he says, is gin up fear to sell more guns.
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The NRA fights to keep guns easy to gain and gun sellers play to the “man card” machismo with styling them like military or police weapons. Both make it easy for criminals and the angry “tyranny fighters”.
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The NRA and the people who support them are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
#5 As to your “claim” that the NRA does not promote gun safety. Please Mrs Saunders don’t let the facts get in your way:
http://eddieeagle.nra.org/
http://www.ehow.com/about_6611358_nra-hunter-safety.html
Many, many more……for decades.
I join you in beseeching Scottie, John R.
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Yes, both the Sierra Club and the NRA “have an agenda and solicit donations and use member dues to promote that agenda through lobbying”, etc. Only the Sierra Club does not hide behind earth safety and earth preservation when their actual agenda is earth development and exploitation. The NRA hides behind “gun safety” and “gun rights” (see #9) when their actual agenda is gun sales.
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They are precisely the same, only different.
Is Eddie Eagle related to Joe Camel?
“angry tyranny fighters“ as suggested in post #8 by Saunders….I can guarantee, given that the Democrats owned all 3 branches from `08-`10….This Country would have been tyrannical in the drop of a hat had it not been for one thing……our GUNS. Anyone that believes otherwise is a fool.
#11 NW….just the irresistible urge to be a smart aleck (“I greatly ressemble that remark”). Or does it belie ignorance?
Joe Camel, if one believes the rhetoric, was designed to attract kids to cigarettes.
Are you suggesting the NRA uses Eddie Eagle to attract kids to guns?
If so, please substantiate. No dancing & huffing, please sir. If yes, please substantiate, or at least explain your inference.
Your anonymous guarantee being worth every penny paid for it notwithstanding Awood, the reality of your scare tactic remains, that the Democrats never “owned all 3 branches from `08-`10” due to the Constitution. I believe the Civil War already proved who is the fool and who is afraid of whom.
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Jim Lucas, did the tobacco companies say that was the purpose of “Joe Camel”?
Jim Lucas, do you like how Awood’s “dancing & huffing”? You sure seem to have missed it. Here to help.
Here’s a picture well worth viewing. My heart goes out to this couple.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/giffords-returns-site-shooting-article-1.1281091
The NRA does nothing that is illegal. If you do not want guns then don’t buy one. I worry more about being killed by a car accident than by a gun.
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I do not like teacher unions. But I do not go around accusing them of greedily taking union members dues and giving them to congressmen in order to promote salary and benefits for the union members while all the time claiming they are working for the children.
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Mr. Wilson was completely over the top and used ever nasty phrase/word that he could dream up to show his hate for either the NRA or guns or both.
Oh my, imagine that! Someone being “over the top”? Someone has used “nasty phrase/word that he could dream up to show his hate”? Say it ain’t so…
How ever will we recover from such a thing?
Al, your concern is just really touching.
I am on board for the NRA receiving the exact same respect as every other union. Look Al, more common ground.