Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Attention Ann Shoben: saying "Nobody wants to ban your guns" and then

saying 'Except for those' doesn't exactly go over well.
Poll s showed that even the majority of gun owners and NRA members were in favor of such measures as universal background checks and the banning of some military style assault weapons.
Nope.  You keep saying that, but not true.  And then
Then, while most of us were still reeling with shock, the NRA went into high gear. Wayne LaPierre was all over the airways sounding like a cross between Elmer Gantry and an Old Testament prophet warning of Armageddon. His message: The government was coming to confiscate our guns and deprive us once and for all of our Second Amendment rights.
You just said people were in favor of banning some guns, but he's a horrible bastard for saying  it?  Really?

After weeks of this, and despite President Obama’s assurances that the government did not want our guns and had no intention of messing with our right to own them,...
Really?  You can't have it both ways: you can't call for bans and restrictions and then call people idiots for believing you want to ban some guns and restrict the rest.

And I do have to point out, claiming gun owners are allied with skinheads, etc., doesn't exactly give us any reason to think we've got common ground with you.  On anything.

1 comment:

Sigivald said...

"Poll s showed that even the majority of gun owners and NRA members were in favor of such measures as universal background checks and the banning of some military style assault weapons."

I have no idea what she thinks about "military style assault weapons" - I suspect "the majority of gun owners" probably are okay with the National Firearms Act, and a properly mis-worded poll might confuse even then.

But on background checks - sure, the majority of both NRA members and gun owners approve of "background checks".

Just not universal ones - the NICS check system we already have, for sales by gun dealers.

It's very easy for the lunatic activists to just assume "universal" must be part of "background check", or not parse the actual question very clearly...

(On the skinhead thing, well... someone should should tell her about the Deacons of Defense - and the way every gun owner I know would approve of them and their actions.)