Official: NRA Supports Terroism
The NRA is currently requesting the Bush Administration to withdraw support for a bill that would prevent Terror suspects from buying guns (which means of course that right now Osama Bin-Laden, not being a felon, could buy one).
Their reasoning? The law “would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere ’suspicions’ of a terrorist threat.”
“As many of our friends in law enforcement have rightly pointed out, the word ’suspect’ has no legal meaning, particularly when it comes to denying constitutional liberties,” according to Chris Cox, the NRA’s executive director.
So, therefore it is OK to wiretap civilians without a warrant who are suspected of terrorism (or just Liberal), it’s OK to disappear people suspected terrorists to secret CIA prisons and torture them, it’s OK to invade another country or two on suspicion of associating with terrorists, but DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH THE SECOND AMENDMENT!
May 4th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Honestly, I just *do not* get the whole “gun nut” phenomenon. Why do Americans get so unreasonably worked-up over firearms?
May 4th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I get it and I don’t get it. Guns can be used as a fun sport, and when used properly could be owned responsibly. However keeping a gun in the house for no other reason than to have one (sorry, “self defense” doesn’t hack it; my wooden stick is better defense) is stupid. bOING bOING linked to an interesting article that you should read.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
It’s the kooks who insist they need a gun for self-defense or “just ’cause” that I’m talking about.
Interesting article. “A 1997 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a gun kept at home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill a friend or family member than to stop an intruder.” This number is pretty much in line with my personal assumptions.
I’ve twice in my life walked into rooms occupied by drunk (or otherwise intoxicated) people who were “cleaning” loaded guns. Not pretty. As well, a guy I knew in high school was fatally wounded by a friend of his who was playing with a gun.
Hmmm…it occurs to me that I’m probably not the most objective person to talk to about gun control.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
“a gun kept at home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill a friend or family member than to stop an intruder.”
So having a gun around the house is like saying “I’d like to commit suicide, but I want it to be a surprise.”