Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation

[marmar]

The Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted March 26, 2009.

In a month filled with tragic shootings, lawmakers are not thinking of gun owners as an oppressed minority. But the NRA is hoping to change that.



"The NRA is asking gunmen to refrain from mass shootings while key gun bills are before legislators," says a newscaster in a recent editorial cartoon.

Say that! On a month that began with the Alabama, Illinois church and Germany shootings and ended with the Oakland police killings -- a Miami mass killing, a Turlock, CA church shooting and the Mexico shootings not even making the public radar -- lawmakers are not thinking of gun owners as an oppressed minority.

In fact when police are killed with assault weapons it takes the wind out of the gun lobby's Good-Guys-Need-To-Be-Armed-Against-Bad-Guys argument, not to mention its AK-47s-Should-Be-Street-Legal-Because-We-Need-To Defend-Ourselves-and-Our-Families argument and its Enforce-Existing-Laws (Loopholes Though They Might Have) argument.

But even before the March Alabama, Illinois, Miami, Oakland and Turlock shootings Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association (NRA) executive vice president was on the defensive at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. in February.

Mad at the Obama administration, the press, the United Nations and a complacent public, LaPierre couldn't decide whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was friend or foe -- first quoting her to prove President Obama is a gun grabber, then showing clips in which she was the gun grabber recommending trigger locks and licenses. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/133274/the_gun_lobby_asks_you_to_please_lay_off_the_mass_killings_while_it%27s_trying_to_influence_legislation/

[billyoc]

1. No promises.

[Captain Hilts]

2. People are batshit crazy about owning handguns. nt

[jody]

3. Real problem is too many people abusing freedom of speech. Take away that inalienable right and all

the complaints about guns killing innocent people will disappear -- problem solved.

[lazer47]

4. Take your argument to the good folks who live near the Border

and ask them how they would like to give up all of their weapons this morning, and depend on nothing but the local law enforcement to protect their homes and property,, I am quite sure they will listen to your nonsense.

[marmar]

5. "Your argument?" ..........

I posted an article from AlterNet, .... or is that too subtle for you to decipher?

[lazer47]

6. I never learent to sipher, I only grageated the 6th grade,,

My bad, I guess I have been reading to much about the AWB,, My apologizes:nuke: