Ruthann Sprague, with the National Rifle Association, shows Bonnie Kristian, 24, of Alexandria, Va., foreground, how to hold the Laser Shot at a shooting simulator booth run by the NRA at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. on Friday, March 15, 2013. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
The Daily Beast
At NRA University, National Rifle Association grassroots organizer Miranda Bond told a group of young conservatives fresh from Sarah Palin’s fiery, lead-barreled CPAC speech Saturday afternoon that encouraging pro-gun friends to register to vote was a good start—and even better would be discourage “anti-gunners” from casting ballots.
“The thing is, we don’t want the anti-gunners to vote,” she said, lamenting the fact that President Obama was re-elected despite the NRA’s best efforts to oust him. So, she said, students should set up voter registration booths on campus but “put up a great big sign that says, ‘Pro-gun? Vote Here.” That will keep the gun control advocates away, she said, because “they’re scared of guns.”
You want all kinds of burdens on gun ownership, but you want just anyone to vote, including people who aren't smart enough to find out where the actual voting booths are. How about treating both rights the same?
ReplyDeleteBecause they're not the same.
DeleteAnd it is here that we come to a huge source of our disagreement. Of course voting is not the same as owning a firearm. Nor is it the same as free speech, or freedom of religion, or the right to not self-incriminate, etc. To suggest any of these are the same is erroneous. They do have one thing in common. They are all fundamental human and civil rights. They aren't ranked in order of importance or anything similar. They are all to be valued and protected. You and other anti-rights people may be willing to part with some or all of them. Pro-rights people are not.
DeleteI'm not concerned.
ReplyDeleteThe number of young people interested in shooting has been steadily decreasing, according to every survey. Getting college-aged young men and women to vote is sometimes a challenge, but there are many drives to sign them up outside of the handful pushed by the NRA, and the percent of students that are pro-gun is so marginal as to be ignored.
You need to listen to my students. Every semester, I get several who write argument papers in favor of gun rights of all kinds. Take a visit outside your leftist enclaves some time. You might learn something.
DeleteAnd of course, Baldy gets it wrong again. Sixty percent of college and high school students surveyed, say they plan on owning guns at a later stage in life.
ReplyDeletehttp://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/elitist-professor-does-study-on-guns-and-young-americans-then-jumps-shark/
Sure. But "planning" or "contemplating" buying a gun is very different from ACTUALLY buying a gun. And, lo and behold, when they hit the real world they fail to buy.
DeleteCheck the second graph on this page for ACTUAL gun ownership:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/01/435437/the-myth-of-nra-dominance-part-iv-the-declining-role-of-guns-in-american-society/
Mr G doesn't mind the leading questions in a poll that supports his fetish.
DeleteMikeb, if you'd get over your sexual obsessions, you'd see the world more clearly. We don't suffer from your condition.
DeleteHmm...I've read as much about this poll as I could and I've not found any of those "leading questions". Would you provide a supporting link, please?
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