Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumThe NRA And 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
Columnist E.J. Dionne sees an urgent need to repeal "Stand Your Ground" laws. They are, he wrote in a Washington Post piece, the result of political pressures brought by the National Rifle Association on politicians who "ought to know better but are too petrified by the NRA to confront it."
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/24/151294667/the-nra-and-stand-your-ground-laws
ileus
(15,396 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)He's been shilling for the DLC 3rd Way in his columns for years and perpetually yearns for 1992.
Why any paper still carries his syndicated column is beyond me. But I guess he just hasn't heard that the NRA has no real political power and the politicians can safely just ignore the NRA and their 4+ million voting members and extended families and friends and those annoying but pointless state organizations and the 11 to 12 million with CC permits with no political consequences.
Far smarter to listen to the handful of 1%ers that run Brady and MMM and their 14 members. (Or has the MMM totally disbanded, with their old leadership now serving time for gun crimes?)
But feel free to applaud his inanity and if you find any serious Dem running for office that quotes him or supports his ideas, let us all know. After all, anything's possible, since we have people here applauding Dick Cheney's Terrah Watch List, Scott Walker's Gun Bans in public buildings and now the Bank of America as a wise organization.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)Ted Nugent to the Board of Directors? Good thing this country has 300 million others in it that don't belong.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Oh, that's right, I forgot, gun control people don't really ever "do" anything about their beliefs. They just sit at their keyboards and whine about the success of the pro 2nd people.
Envy is such an ugly emotion.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)are nut case ideologues.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...that the extreme left is sinking into total socialism and that the right finds anarchy attractive. Neither is good.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)We have to arm everybody!
If the fetuses were armed, there would never be an abortion! Yahoo!
armueller2001
(609 posts)I'm not aware of anyone who ever suggests arming everybody, except for prohibitionists.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)> I'm not aware of anyone who ever suggests arming everybody, except for prohibitionists.
You're just uninformed. Haven't you heard the NRA Talking Point about how an armed society is a "safe" society? How about the Talking Point that the more guns there are, the safer we all are? Failing those, how about the NRA Talking Point about how if everyone was armed, we wouldn't have massacres like Columbine?
You gotta keep up with the NRA Talking Points better!
DonP
(6,185 posts)Let me guess, you can't be bothered to actually prove any of your claims with cites or references, right?
So far you've misquoted a 1950's eras sci fi author and accurately quoted some statements by gun control fans about everyone being armed.
But we'd love to see those oft referenced NRA talking points any time you're ready?
No wonder gun control remains a losing issue.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
iverglas
(38,549 posts)Did everybody who voted for GWBush and his crew vote for invading Iraq?
You know as well as everybody else that very few people who voted for the Florida legislators responsible for its ugly laws in this regard had any clue about the issues involved, let alone based their vote on them.
sarisataka
(18,663 posts)although he was talking about SYG
In a nice nice cozy safe room with all the time in the world to consider every permutation an option available a person decides was it 'reasonable' that you could/should have retreated from the situation.
The reality was on a dark street you had a person coming at you aggressively with a club or knife or gun, you couldn't be sure in the night, and maybe there was an escape down that dark alley but the situation happened faster that the time it has taken to read this....
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Get rid of SYG and gun sales will drop by 32.5214%.