In right-wing delusions, Obama's gun control plan is monarchy

[billh58]

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Even before President Obama announced his proposed gun control measures, right-wing paranoids and Republican members of Congress were raving about impeachment, incipient monarchy and civil war.

Obama’s proposal is expected to include a call for banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening the background check system for gun buyers. While Congress would have to approve those major steps, he may also lay out 19 actions he can take by executive order, such as mandating that federal agencies gather data on gun safety.

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Of the annual 30,000 gun deaths in the U.S., only 200 are homicides resulting from acts of self-defense, according to the FBI. Still, no one is talking about stripping away the right of anyone to own a gun to scare off a prowler or hold off a rapist (even though most people shot by guns in homes are relatives and friends). The only types of gun anyone is talking about restricting are the assault rifles that former Gens. Colin Powell and Stanley McChrystal say should only be in the hands of soldiers -- the kind of weapon used by a mentally unstable young man to murder first-graders in Newtown.

But folks on the right disagree with the generals. Apparently, that is the kind of weapon they think they may desperately need in the event of civil war against the would-be monarch in the White House.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/16/nation/la-na-tt-obamas-gun-control-20130115

The right-wing gun culture in the USA is driven by paranoia, bigotry, and hate, and will never agree to any gun control regulation whatsoever. That is why the sane Liberal majority must take action to enact legislation aimed at combating the gun violence epidemic which engenders and encourages vigilantism and other senseless acts of anti-social right-wing behavior on our streets.

Public awareness of the carnage caused by guns is growing, as is support for legislative action and the replacement of NRA bought-and-paid-for politicians at all levels of government.

Support a Liberal gun control organization today in any way that you can...

[Prophet 451]

1. For a lot of the gun nuts, it's not even about guns anymore

The NRA are no longer a body representing gun owners but a body that acts to push the craziest right-wing memes into the mainstream, it's the modern, socially acceptable face of conspiranoia.


(Note: The phrase "gun nuts" should not be taken to include all, or even most, gun owners. It is intended to describe the oppose-any-regulation-whatsoever-of-any-kind, "cold dead hands" fanatics).

[billh58]

2. There are millions of

reasonable American gun owners who agree with the need for gun control legislation. The very vocal minority Second Amendment absolutist, NRA apologist right-wing faction are the real gun nuts who believe that vigilante SYG justice is the "true" American way, and will never agree to any form of reasonable regulation. Just like their Tea Party brethren, they need to be ignored and marginalized.

[Hoyt]

3. Exactly. NRA leadership like Grover Norquist or John Bolton are pushing all kinds of right wing crud

when they visit legislators and hand out contributions/bribes. The vast majority of gun promoters are right/white wingers.