NRA Conventioneers Regurgitating the Party Line

via Think Progress

The Incredible Honesty and Transparency of the National Rifle Association

From the NRA-ILA site.

In fact, the NRA is the largest and arguably the most influential advocacy organization in the nation today,with 4 million members...

From Big Think.

Bill Novelli is CEO of AARP, a membership organization of 40 million people age 50 and older, half of whom remain actively employed.

Why do they do that? Why do they say such ridiculous things and then accuse others of lying?

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Dennis Henigan on the NRA in the Afterglow of the Convention

via The Brady Campaign

The NRA is the most accomplished marketer of fear in American political life.

There is, first, the fear of imminent violent attack. I’m not talking about a healthy concern for personal and family security. The NRA, and its gun industry patrons, need average Americans to believe that the threat of attack is constant and pervasive; that we are at serious risk all the time and everywhere we go. It’s not enough to have a gun in the home for self-defense; you need multiple guns throughout your home so you’re never too far from your gun. It’s not enough to carry a concealed weapon outside your home; the law must allow you to carry it virtually anywhere an attack might conceivably occur, into restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, community centers and churches.

He goes on to mention the other "fears." What do you think?

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Richard Poplawski - Remember Him?

Do you think they talked about this guy at the NRA Convention? We noticed Sally Kalson did.

Future NRA Members Wreak Havoc During the Convention

Not far from Pittsburgh the gun juvenile gun culture was alive and well during the NRA Convention.

Greensburg police said BB- or pellet-gun holes in two vehicles may be related to a shooting spree that caused damage to more than 70 cars and homes during the weekend in central Westmoreland County.

Authorities reported three other incidents of criminal mischief from the weekend or on Monday.

Police expect to file charges with county juvenile authorities after a 17-year-old boy allegedly fired a BB or pellet gun at a North Hamilton Avenue home, damaging a window.

The boy said he was trying to shoot a cat, police said.

Seranko said someone may have been trying to break into a vehicle on Highland Avenue. Damage was done to a window and molding around it, he said.

A 66-year-old Greensburg man said a rock was thrown at his car as he traveled on West Pittsburgh Street, near Gaither Way. The window didn't break, and the two male suspects, each about 10 years old, ran away, police said.

What do you think? Maybe the gun apologists are right. If they can't get real guns, they use BB guns or even rocks. Violence and destruction is the key, don't let anyone tell you differently. The gun is just a tool.

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Perez Hilton on Ted Nugent and the NRA

Referring to some asinine nonsense Ted said at the convention, Perez had this to say.  

Does he and the NRA really think that making it harder for those who are not responsible enough, or people with malicious intent, to get guns is a life-threatening problem? Because to us, it doesn't sound like anyone is taking their guns out of their hands or their end-ability to buy them, but rather putting up a little inconvenience that their passion for guns should surpass.

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Mitt Romney at the NRA Convention

According to Hot Air, Mitt Romney only got a luke-warm reception for this video statement.



Did he say, "I believe in the Constitution, the way it was written?" What do you think that means for women and blacks?

Don't these right-wing characters realize they cannot continue to put the so-called Founding Fathers on pedestals without inviting ridicule?

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Rick Santorum Addresses the Canaries

“The beauty is that you folks here in the NRA have been talking about this for years, somewhat out in the wilderness,” he said. “But now the values that you’ve been focused for so many years are coming right squarely in the center.”

“In many respects, you folks were the canary in the mineshaft (with) the assault on basic foundational freedoms in our Constitution,” Santorum said. “Now we’re seeing those assaults growing and growing and growing. But you were out there first, leading the charge, fighting those battles. And now the battlefield has broadened, and we have to fight for our freedom from an oppressive government on a variety of fronts.”

Everyone knows it's all about FIGHTING and resisting OPPRESSION. It's about FIGHTING THOSE BATTLES and COMBATTING THOSE ASSAULTS.

This is the way one talks to the NRA crowd. Is it any wonder that every once in a while one of them decides to shoot up the joint?

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Alan Colmes on Newt's Nonsense

via Alan Colmes Liberaland

Newt Gingrich says it’s not the Constitution that gives us the right to own a gun, it’s God.

Alan's response:

Isn’t it God who gives gays the right to be with whom they love? Don’t immigrants have the right to exist where they can thrive because that is a God-given right? Isn’t it God who gives women reproductive rights? Or are these last areas where the government is supposed to step in.

What's your opinion? Is it not a bit contradictory to say the right to own a pistol is god-given, but it's right for the government to limit women's reproductive rights?

These conservatives are full of contradictions, aren't they?

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Bachmann Addresses the Troops

Could this be any more foolish? Not only has Obama proven to NOT be a threat to gun rights, this strategy failed miserably in 2008.

In a well-received video greeting, Rep. Michele Bachmann urged gun owners Friday to be as engaged in 2012 as they were during the midterm elections that gave Republicans control of the House.

“The right to keep and bear arms has to be protected because the Second Amendment is the final guarantor of all our constitutional rights,” the Minnesota Republican said in a pre-record message for thousands of activists at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. “In 18 months, we’ll face one of the most important elections of our time. In 2012, we have the opportunity to repeal the current president and elect a Constitutional conservative who will protect our Second Amendment rights.”

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Sally Kalson on the NRA Convention

Acres of guns, annals of agony

The NRA makes sure future criminals can arm themselves to the teeth

Sunday, May 01, 2011

By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The National Rifle Association has been holding its annual meeting in Pittsburgh for the past few days, heralded with billboards promising "acres of guns and gear."

Here's a billboard you didn't see, but would have if the group was honest about its mission to paint even the most sensible gun laws as a step toward tyranny: "The NRA: Because if Richard Poplawski can't have an arsenal, neither can you."

What's your opinion? Is she saying there actually was a sign saying that about Poplawski, or that this is what describes the NRA position? Either way, I agree with Sally's take on it. The NRA is pushing misery and suffering.

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Mike Huckabee's Big Mistake

As one of the speakers at the NRA convention, Mike Huckabee made a big mistake in judgment. Think about it. If the NRA wasn't able to prevent Obama's election in 2008, in spite of the money invested and the wide-spread belief that "Obama would take their guns away," what chance do they have this time? Therefore, sucking up to the NRA is a big mistake, perhaps a determining one.

Of course he's not officially running yet.

Huckabee also said Obama didn't receive an "F" rating from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence because the president has helped gun owners — though gun owners have been allowed to pack weapons on Amtrak trains and carry them in federal parks since President Obama took office.

Rather, Huckabee said President Obama is simply not attacking gun owners' rights as quickly and effectively as anti-gun and gun control groups would like.

What's your opinion? Does that make sense to you that the Brady "F" was for NOT doing enough instead of for actually DOING some NRA bidding? I didn't see a video, but I'll bet the crowd cheered when ole Mike made those stupid remarks.

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The Viagra Draw

Robert Farago, Roving Reporter at the NRA Convention