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The former head of an influential pro-gun lobbying group said over the weekend that losing the White House could mean pro-gun activists have to resort to the bullet box to protect the Second Amendment.
In a conversation on his Gun Owners News Hour, Larry Pratt, executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America, interviewed Robert Knight, a fellow at the conservative American Civil Rights Union, who said a Democrat taking the White House and replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would pose great peril to gun rights.
At that point, we would have to come to an understanding, which weve been sort of taught, its been taught out of us, that the courts do not have the last word on what the Constitution is, Pratt said on the show, in remarks first flagged by RightWingWatch.
And we may have to reassert that constitutional balance, and it may not be pretty," he continued. "So, Id much rather have an election where we solve this matter at the ballot box than have to resort to the bullet box.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/larry-pratt-bullet-box-scotus
niyad
(113,527 posts)Matrosov
(1,098 posts)They call it 'voting from the rooftops' and 'peace through superior firepower'.
niyad
(113,527 posts)ammosexual gunhumpers have, the military has more--and bigger.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Now?
What I'd like to know is where are all these "responsible" gun owners I hear so much about? Why aren't they out en masse to denounce Pratt and his incendiary language? Is that how all the gun owners feel? Does Pratt speak for all of you when he says that if he doesn't get his way, the acceptable response for gun owners is to start gunning down people? Because in this instance, I'd say silence = consent.