Is it just us, or does it seem that there’s a concerted effort under way to brand the the NRA as a terrorist organization in the collective mind of the public? Sure, a quick Google search turns up hundreds of them, but particularly since the President couldn’t manage to get a single gun control measure through a Democrat-controlled Senate, the campaign seem to have intensified. And it’s no longer coming just from the danker depths of the intertubes, either. You expect to see that kind of effluence spewing from thinkprogress.org and democraticunderground.com. But the Veep’s now insinuating that the NRA is one-a them anti-government groups, gumming up the works. Now, we have the spectacle of the editor of a daily fishwrap newspaper calling for suspension of the constitution where the NRA is concerned . . .
David Perry, editor of the Colorado Aurora Sentinel says he’s had an epiphany:
I have seen the light. After all these years, I now agree that it’s fruitless to give the benefit of the doubt to people who are so obviously corrupt, so clearly malevolent, so bent on hurting innocent people for their own sick gain.
No more due process in the clear-cut case of insidious terrorism. When the facts are so clearly before all Americans, for the whole world to see, why bother with this country’s odious and cumbersome system of justice? Send the guilty monsters directly to Guantanamo Bay for all eternity and let them rot in their own mental squalor.
No, no, no. Not the wannabe sick kid who blew up the Boston marathon or the freak that’s mailing ricin-laced letters to the president. I’m talking about the real terrorist threat here in America: the National Rifle Association.
So the James Holmeses, the Adam Lanzas and the Flying Tsarnaev Brothers were only “wannabe sick kids.” The really dangerous people – the ones who need to have their Constitutional rights suspended and exiled to a gulag- are the wackos at the NRA.
Perry doesn’t really make clear if he’d like to send just the NRA brass to Guantanamo or all 5 million of its members. He does point out, however, that the rest of the country has NRA members outnumbered by about 62:1.
In his world, he’s obviously happy to have democracy boil down to two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. Fortunately, most of us still still enjoy the liberty the Founders had the wisdom to enumerate, ensuring that the fuzzy little armed lamb has the ability to tell the (sixty)two wolves to FOAD.
Fenix PD32 Ultimate Edition…740lumens max.
The author contributed this op-ed to a once-a-week newspaper with a print circulation of 7500 subscribers. The NYT this ain’t.
Don’t fully discount it’s significance just because it’s microscopic readership…just as RF is referencing it, since it’s in print (and not a loon on a street corner) the anti-rights crowd can and will bring it up too. A talking head can do an entire panel discussion, on the question brought up by the paper and then hold their hands up and say “I’m not arguing that! People are saying it, I’m just reporting on it!”
Damn. That’s a bit harsh even for an anti! Weren’t they against Guantanamo Bay?
Still, I think you might be punching at shadows. The left has always hated the NRA, but the more they scream and shout the more people join it.
They only demonize you when you’re a threat to them.
“They only demonize you when you’re a threat to them”
Ironic how that fits with the quote of Obama in the cartoon above:
We will never bow to those who want to control us through Fear and Intimidation.
Funny the president saying that when he and his peers are doing just that……..just saying.
LED Lenser P-7.
Because Seeing at night is a plus, and yes, it’s always with me.
Notice now that the Biden dingbat machine is all for Toomey Manchin bill the AWB is DOA for this congress. Agree Ralph?
The only way to steal mine is to rip them out of my cold dead hand. If she wants to protect children she could get their daddies to hang around and take care of them and get them out of the ghetto. NRA members aren’t shooting children!
Replace the nra in his statement with our own gov and it would sound more like The truth.
In all honesty, I wouldn’t read too much into it. Yes they’re demonizing gun owners and the NRA. Respond appropriately. But this isn’t Dr Evil’s master plan, it’s just the protest/community organizer mentality at work. There’s always an evil enemy, whether it’s the bank that won’t give Uncle Henry another loan, or one of the only true grassroots organizations in politics. It’s how they roll.
It is a shame all these freaking California control freaks found my state and are now hell bent on sending it down the crapper. I love Colorado, and I will not move I just won’t obey idiots like Mr. Perry or the laws and politicians people like him support.
So a big OL FU to Mr. Perry, I’ll be dead before idiots like you determine if I am slave labor material.
“I have seen the light. After all these years, I now agree that it’s fruitless to give the benefit of the doubt to people who are so obviously corrupt, so clearly malevolent, so bent on hurting innocent people for their own sick gain.”
I actually agree with him on this…which is why I’m totally in favor of sending all leftists to the gulag and have absolutely no consideration left for sub-human scum like the writer of this editorial. Those like him are, to me, lower than dirt, their only purpose on this planet to lift my spirits the day I read their obituaries.
Good things that come from this are the antis reveal the monsters they truly are. This one full-on admitted his utter loathing for the American justice system and due process, hailed unchecked governmental abuse, and made terrorist threats. And yet the NRA are the terrorists.
And, in the end, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. All of this is a concerted effort to demonize and marginalize gun owners to pave the way for a genocide, just like every other instance in history.
Passing this on, written by a fellow Sailor… Hooya!!! People of the 2A…
Drones in the sky o’re the land of the free,
“The Messiah” Obama spying on you and me.
Tapping our phones and e-mail too,
He is afraid of what we can do.
He wants our guns and ammo you see,
Cause his tyranny, is not to be.
We are free people in this land,
But not under the Kings heavy hand.
He is working hard almost everyday,
To try and take our rights away.
GOD given rights he can try and take,
Afraid that will be one tremendous mistake!
Millions have served this great land,
Many have died from an enemies hand.
I cherish this land and freedom too,
I was proud to serve America and of course you.
Black verses white and tween men and women too,
He has started wars to divide me and you.
Take from the makers everything he can,
To GIVE to the takers in this great land.
Between Fast & Furious and Ben-ghazi,
The King is a liar as we all can see.
Lie to America every chance he gets,
There is no lie that he regrets.
We must hold firm to survive this regime,
And send’em packin’ in twenty fourteen.
We will survive there is no doubt,
This is the land of the free that I shout!!
.MOLON LABE
John D USN RVN 71, 72, 73, evac 75
I replaced my Surefire E1 with a Fenix PD22. It’s much brighter, and hasn’t cost me $30 every month in a lamp and batteries either.
Uh, they have been doing this for years.
This “printed gun” phenomenon is so over rated – quit romanticizing it. Politicians will just insist 3D printers be regulated. That’ll kill the movement before it even gets into motion.
Thus bringing up the whole 1st Amendment issue into the picture. And any attempt to kill an emerging industry is going to see massive resistance from people who would otherwise never have cared about firearms. That sort of legislation won’t kill the issue, it’ll just escalate things to be even worse than they are now.
Fact: the USPS will not deliver mail to a residence that has a known vicious dog on the property that has shown aggressive behavior. If a mail carrier feels threatened by a dog, he/she is authoried to stop delivering at that address and the homeowner will be notified that any mail addressed to that location will have to picked up at the local post office.
OK he made a gun on a 3D printer. Now everyone can go back to single shot guns. It is a waste of time you can’t sell them, and they appear to fire how many people want to take a chance on shooting one? Then of course you have the legal areas to deal with.
Good on ya, TTAG. This guy’s a hero. Go, Cody, Go! Let Freedom Ring!
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems.”
Funny, that’s exactly how they try to portray the NRA: some scary entity separate from its millions of members.
Looks as though “it done blowed up real good.”
Please define “it works.”
“It helps us find them”
Well, she’s pinpointed the problem. As mentioned many times here already, if my gun is stolen I will provide the serial number to the authorities. There is no reason for them to have that information when the gun is in my possession.
I always carry a 4Sevens Quarx X1232 Tactical. It is only 4 1/2″ and fits nicely in any of my pockets. 360 lumens max does the job. I am surprised at how much use I get out of it. Around the house I have other 4Sevens, Fenix and Surefires.
Just another pathetic attempt to get control of the narrative …
next!
As long as it screws with the anti’s heads its all worth it. The more stuff they regulate the loonier they look. Randy
They want to paint the NRA as this juggernaut of evil so all the hip kids will have a cause to fight. The typical leftist generally acts on whatever is fashionable and quickly moves on to the next hot topic. They need to make gun-control sexy again and in lieu of their definition of “good news” (a tragedy) they create the evil NRA narrative.
You see it all over now, all the bills failed because of the big bad NRA and all their money, never mind all the pro-gun Americans that wrote and called their reps every single day. The most powerful tool the NRA has is the “Write your Reps” page.
Please Sheila, by all means, show me the logic path from “background checks” to “safer children” …
Wasn’t it inevitable? I’ve always known that all of these special exceptions for terrorists would someday be used on the politically inconvenient.
I’m not all that clever, I’ve just just read “1984”.
It’s just small steps towards a death march.
This is how tyrannies have always worked.
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ive seen nerf guns that look better than this.
that being said, nerf could only dream of that power.
i carry a fairly cheap but good quality light that came in a three-pack from Costco for $20 in my pocket. i carry it everywhere i carry my gun which means, well, everywhere!
I have this Cabela’s brand tactical light that I carry. I found it in the bargain cave in the Fort Worth store packaged with an aluminum handled cabela’s brand folding knife for 20 bucks. Had I realized how nice both the light and the knife actually were, I would have grabbed every one that they had.
The comon mans voice far outweigh written ant-ammendment rhetoric, complacentness of representatives, stretchin to all branches od federal goverent.
Right now 38 states, not including mine have passed or introduced “THE 2nd Amendment Protection Act” once it reaches 2/3 of the states it becomes a constitutional amendment.
Also a reconvenening of the constituional congress could be called & our state representatives, not the federal ones, will then procede to revamp completely to the original constitution.
Emailed him yesterday thanking him for the article that has become my go to when discussing guns with antis. I also dropped the suggestion that ttag would likely welcome his writing with open arms.
The value of Propaganda is to create doubts in the minds of the mass of The People. Creating said doubts opens their minds to manipulation of what the majority believes as generally true. Layering levels of plausibility about what is generally true slowly enables the State to divorce truth from what the State wants The People to accept as generally true. Once the State can control what The People accept as generally true, the State can assert its Will as it deems fit in the Laws, Policies and Procedures it implements. Only a slight majority of The People need to accept the State’s Propaganda and those who disagree can be marginalized and eventually subdued to the State’s Will (by force, if necessary) and the majority of The People who support the State will approve because they accept the Truth as defined by the State.
This stuff being said by Biden et al is part of the layering process, so no it doesn’t have to flat-out say “The NRA and its Members are ‘terrorists’…” it only has to introduce a plausible doubt or question. It has to paint the NRA and its members as the antithesis of “Public Safety” because the NRA cows elected Law Makers to vote against “common sense” legislation that would enable the State to “better protect” The People. Truth does not matter in this process. Right does not matter in this process. It is institutionalized Political Propaganda designed to facilitate fundamental changes to The American Republic by altering what The People accept as generally true.
It is being done slowly and deliberately, and has been in progress for many years. Because it is subtle and slowly implemented it keeps those who oppose it off guard. While we are writing comments about our Rights and Freedoms in the traditional American view of what is generally true, our children are being taught quite a different view in the Public Schools. While we reject the MSM’s biased reporting of “News” and sycophantic adoration of Obama and his supporters, many of our fellow countrymen lap-up the lies and deceit like nectar and honey. While we want to stand on our own and be the Traditional self-reliant, independent thinking/acting American, many, many of our fellow Citizens want the State to take care of them, decide for them, and provide for them.
All this is why, despite setbacks and failures, the present POTUS and Administration/Supporters confidently persists in repeating the same slanted disinformation and twisted “facts”, pursuing the same flawed Policies, spending money recklessly, refusing to work with their opposition in the House of Representatives, telling The People “things are getting better”, and believe they have a majority of support (however slight) because they know this is and has been a gradual process which believe they are on the verge of “winning”.
So, you can “poo-poo” Mr. Farago’s “alarmist” postings and (correctly) point-out “Biden didn’t actually say THAT”, and, in so doing, play right into the hands of the POTUS and his Supporters because they are counting on skepticism and denial to mask what is being done and REALLY don’t care what you think because you are being marginalized and slowly undermined and won’t even recognize it, or so the Socialist Democrats think.
Think about it and how the contents of the National dialog has changed over the past 75 years, more dramatically since the end of WWII and even more so since the War in Viet Nam. We are at a crucial pivot-point and only clear, objective thinking will determine the outcome.
Last I knew, gunpowder was classed as a propellant rather than an explosive.
The overreach and smug arrogance of this man are almost beyond belief.
What next? Charcoal and liquid oxygen…?
The very LAST thing we should be doing when we are mourning, or suffering an emotional trauma or shock, is making major decisions. That’s when we are at our most emotional. And our least rational, and sensible.
So what sense does it make to immediately react to a school shooting by passing laws? It’s action based on emotion. It’s irrational decision making. It’s a bad, bad idea. This is a big part of why we have waiting periods for purchasing guns. But we don’t have any waiting period on passing laws! And look what happens. What happened after 9/11 is a good example of that…
Common sense tells us that when you’re emotionally overbalanced… and unbalanced… you don’t go making major, lasting decisions. Or taking actions based on those decisions. Otherwise, you get yourself and everyone else in trouble.