Quick Note: I just saw that Steven Colbert said something similar to what I put in my post. Not a big deal, but I put this together before I saw what Colbert did, and didn't feel like deleting it... so, meh... it happens.
Also, I'm putting this out tonight because tomorrow will be nothing but SCOTUS and Obamacare... so, there you have it... now to the post...
I’m a gun owner. I
have several weapons in my house and have no issue with private – sensible –
law abiding citizens owning weapons. I
come from a family of gun owners. If war
broke out and we were occupied by enemy forces, my father’s arsenal alone would
be enough to equip 1,000 Minute Men. My
mother, yes, my innocent, never-hurt-a-fly mother, has a concealed carry
card. I say this to give perspective
hoping you can better understand where I’m coming from. Bottom line, I the words of the great Jay-Z,
“like short sleeves, I bear arms.”
However, I’m not a 2nd amendment lunatic. I’m not one that believes a law restricting
civilians from obtaining semiautomatic weapons, or a law prohibiting criminals
from procuring tech-nines is an attack on ALL gun owning Americans. Nor do I believe that extreme gun control laws will protect people. If bad people want to get a gun, creating a law will not stop them from getting it. To me, these are both weak arguments
intellectually. Unfortunately, an
argument devoid of intelligence hasn’t stopped the National Rifle Association
(NRA) from making it.
If you keep up with politics, you are familiar with the NRA. You’re also aware that the NRA is one of the
Republican Party’s puppet
masters staunchest supporters and enablers. Similar to domestic hostage
taker Grover Norquist, the NRA rates congressional leaders on their – supposed
– views on violence in America disguised as 2nd Amendment
advocacy. The NRA provides ratings for issues
that they deem a priority towards gun rights; then, they bully influence
congressional members to do their bidding – their most recent target, Fast and
Furious.
The NRA has made Fast and Furious, the controversial ATF’s
gun-walking scandal, a priority for their hijacking agenda. Not because they oppose the ATF’s
actions. Not because they are upset an
ATF agent was killed and they want justice. Not because they think Attorney
General Holder is withholding information important to finding out what went
wrong. No, that would make too much
sense; remember, they need an intellectually weak argument. And they found one. NRA is using Eric Holder and Fast and Furious
as leverage against congressional members because they feel that Fast and
Furious is “a political attack on the 2nd Amendment and that the
Justice Department facilitated a crime to further their gun control political
agenda,” as stated by the NRA’s Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
Did you get that? They are saying that an agency level (not EXECUTIVE LEVEL) program that started under the Bush Administration
(Wide Receiver) is actually *takes deep
breath*a scheme set in place by the Evil
Lord Voldermort Obama while he was in the U.S. Senate to use Inception like
tactics to planting an idea into then Covington & Burling LLP attorney Eric
Holder making him a sleeper agent to awaken in 3 years with a plan to
manipulate the Dept of Justice to trick the ATF into killing one of their
agents in turn framing the Mexican Cartel all in an effort to change the
constitution and take away guns from all Americans in made up bills that he
would pass during his 2nd term in office…. *running out of breath* Fuck you, Tom Clancy, I want the NRA to write
the next Jack Ryan movie!
The penetration of this silly assertion is starting to
impact both Democrats and Republicans alike.
Since the NRA says that it will use how members vote on Eric Holder’s
contempt charge as a gun rights issue, some Democrats are jumping ship and are
voting FOR AG Holder’s contempt charge.
Even though this issue has NOTHING to do with gun rights, somehow, the
NRA is trying to squeeze whatever bit of gun right fear mongering possible out of
a weak political issue.
Not that it matters much, but any sensible person knows this
issue is WITHOUT merit. Not only has
President Obama NOT taking ANY action against the 2nd amendment or
gun ownership, but, as a matter of fact, President Obama reached out to the NRA
to join in on the conversations of gun control.
Of course the NRA declined because it is easier to bitch about the Obama
the make believe issues than actually work with the other side on finding a
REAL solution.
So there you have it.
As usual our political process is riddled with falsehoods, spin and
hyperbole, but it doesn’t get more wacked out as this. The NRA, an organization that wants you to
view it as a respectable defender of constitutional rights is becoming more and
more indistinguishable to Area 51 support groups. Even scarier than that, there are
congressional members who believe as they do.
Questions:
Does the NRA have a valid argument?
Should Congressional Members bow down to groups like the
NRA?
Is this a gun rights issue?
Is this part of an elaborate plan by the Obama
Administration to take on the 2nd Amendment?
