NRA issues threat to NYT

[Takket]

These people are fucking lunatics.............

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/345403-nra-spokesperson-to-nyt-were-coming-for-you


Conservative political pundit and National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch took on The New York Times in a video posted by the NRA on Friday in which she says "we're coming for you."

"We're going to laser-focus on your so-called 'honest pursuit of truth.' In short, we're coming for you," Loesch said in the video. "Consider this a shot across your proverbial bow."

~SNIP~

But what is the real story here?

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131017&page=1

Another reason guns are in decline is the changing political landscape. Experts say when Democrats are in office, sales climb because gun buyers fear politicians will introduce legislation that will restrict the purchase of guns.

With the threat to American gun owners from the Congress or the White House substantially lowered, their immediate fear to buy more handguns, more long guns, has gone out the window," said Richard Feldman, a former gun industry lobbyist.

~snip~

The NRA exists and thrives as part of a paradox. They detest and rail against Democrats on the outside, but on the inside, the hope for Democrats to be in power. With Democrats in power they push the false narrative of 2A rights being taken away by a Democratic congress or president. They depend on the ignorance of their followers (who don't understand that a Constitutional amendment is required to "take their guns away",) to drive panicked sales of guns before "Obama takes them away."

Now with the GOP in control of the entire government, gun humpers are relaxed and content with the guns they already have. No need to stockpile more!

So what is the NRA to do? Well, try to bring the fear back of course! Somehow, a newspaper is going to take your 2A rights away. Make them the enemy, it is only a matter of time before the fake news convinces America guns should be taken away, so better stockpile now!!!!!!!!

And organizations like the NYT are now literally in the crosshairs as this irresponsible and reprehensible strategy is rolled out. By publishing videos like this the NRA is essentially saying "We're not advocating violence against the liberal media, but man, America would sure be great again if some patriots blew these fuckers away." Sales go up, some nuts might flip out and shoot up the NYT, but, meh, profit is more important than lives right?

[leftofcool]

1. NYT to the NRA...........Go fuck yourself!

[Initech]

2. [phone]!!!!

Fuck the NRA!!!

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Her again?

That woman is fucking nuts.

[hack89]

5. NRA are morons. Obama was very good for gun owners.

If a Dem president and Dem congressional leaders are not going to roll back gun rights, it is hard to see how a newspaper can.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Maybe the NRA should covertly support Democrats

They're good for business!

But seriously, I've been meaning to subscribe to the NYT. Now I will.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Yeah, and if some RW nut starts shooting people, the conversation will go back to gun control.

"See? We told you they want to take yer guns!"

[Archae]

9. Except nowadays a LIBERAL nutcase shot up a gathering...

A gathering of congressmen, no less, including one badly wounded who is a die-hard gun supporter.

Maybe they are re-thinking their objections to banning mental patients from owning guns...

[needledriver]

8. Maryland's assault weapons ban upheld by US appeals court

http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/US-appeals-court-upholds-Maryland-assault-weapons-10948756.php

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a decision that met with a strongly worded dissent.

In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said the guns banned under Maryland's law aren't protected by the Second Amendment.

"Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for the court, adding that the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller explicitly

Judge William Traxler issued a dissent. By concluding the Second Amendment doesn't even apply, Traxler wrote, the majority "has gone to greater lengths than any other court to eviscerate the constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms." He also wrote that the court did not apply a strict enough review on the constitutionality of the law.

"For a law-abiding citizen who, for whatever reason, chooses to protect his home with a semi-automatic rifle instead of a semi-automatic handgun, Maryland's law clearly imposes a significant burden on the exercise of the right to arm oneself at home, and it should at least be subject to strict scrutiny review before it is allowed to stand," Traxler wrote.


How many times have you seen a meme crawl across your Facebook feed to the effect of "The Democrats aren't coming for your guns" as part of a long list debunking right wing paranoid claims? If you live in California, or Maryland, or New York the Democrats ARE coming for your guns.

California. Maryland. New York. Nice reliable blue voting states. Even if you are "deplorable or "stupid" it is clear to see that if you vote Democratic you are voting for a party that has an active policy of eroding your right to keep and bear arms. Even if you are not really sure whether Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing and are tempted to give the Democrat the benefit of the doubt, there's no doubt in your mind, based on actual demonstrated results, that if you vote for a Democrat you are voting for a party that will make it more difficult to buy firearms, and impossible to buy the ones you want.

This. Shit. Costs. Us. Votes.

Why is it that Liberals will twist themselves into emotional knots defending the right of Nazis to exercise their freedom of speech by parading through a Jewish neighborhood, but lose their shit if one of those same Nazis wants to own a black aluminum and plastic semi automatic rifle? What quality of "Right" does Freedom of Speech or Worship have that the "Right" to Keep and Bear Arms does not possess?