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If there were an Islamic Terror Attack, not sure what I would fear most.... (Original Post) Junkdrawer Aug 2012 OP
Actully the NRA is the least of your worries... virginia mountainman Aug 2012 #1
People on the Left assume these draconian laws are directed at them.... Junkdrawer Aug 2012 #3
Next Time Someone Yells "Fire" in a Crowded Theater AndyTiedye Aug 2012 #2

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)
1. Actully the NRA is the least of your worries...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 08:57 PM
Aug 2012

I am more concerned about "The Patriot act II" or something like it. Just think of how the TSA is already out of control, just think if they start operating road blocks. The push to expand Bushco's secret lists even more with people that cannot buy (enter anything that was used in such an attack here). Heaven forbid they use a gasoline bomb, you need to have your papers checked when filling up your car, to make certain your not on the "no buy" lists.

Knee Jerk political reactions tend to be regretted by all.

edited for clarity.

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
3. People on the Left assume these draconian laws are directed at them....
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:19 AM
Aug 2012

Perhaps some leadership types, but not the Left. As Chris Hedges points out again and again, the Left are now ineffectual types who, when greatly provoked, write scathing Letters to the Editor. Fringe elements of the Left might chain themselves to some corporation's front door.

It's the heavly armed Right that what you describe will attempt to stop. And no one fans those flames more than the NRA:

Obama’s Secret Plan To Destroy The Second Amendment By 2016



by Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President

If you want a glimpse of a genuine nightmare for America, just look at what’s headed our way.

But unlike a nightmare, this isn’t some fantasy. It’s a very real, very dangerous conspiracy of public deception intended to destroy your Right to Keep and Bear Arms. It’s targeted directly at you.

...

Over the past three years, the Obama administration and its anti-gun allies have been engaged in a silent but sophisticated long-term conspiracy to:

1. Neutralize gun owners and NRA voters as a political force in national elections, and thereby:

2. Win re-election to a second term in the White House, where they then will be immune to the will of voters and free to continue consolidating and misusing their ever-increasing power to:

3. Prosecute a full-scale, sustained, all-out campaign to excise the Second Amendment from our Bill of Rights through legislation, litigation, regulation, executive orders, judicial fiat, international treaties—in short, all the levers of power of all three branches of government.

...

But that’s just a diversion to distract you from their true beliefs and objectives.

Think about it: Before moving into the White House, Barack Obama spent his entire career proudly, publicly advancing the most radical anti-gun positions you can imagine.

He endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. He opposed Right- to-Carry laws. He voted to ban nearly all common hunting-rifle ammunition.

In short, Obama never met a gun he liked, and never met a gun ban he didn’t like. The same was true of his running mate, then U.S. Senator Joe Biden, D-Del.

...

Yet so far, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have done nothing but shrug their shoulders, shirk responsibility and stonewall the investigations at every turn, as if Americans shouldn’t care that a massive criminal enterprise seems to have been run right out of our own Justice Department, just to set the stage for a future Obama gun ban.

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http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/11920/obamas-secret-plan-to-destroy-the-second-amendment-by-2016
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