So this is a pretty amusing anti-gun article. Let’s fisk it!
New Year’s Resolutions for the NRA
1. We will stop referring to ourselves as a “civil rights” organization that defends “human rights.” It is a sacrilege to people actually killed or harmed by civil and human rights abuses.
Sorry but the Right To Keep and Bear Arms is a civil right. The NRA is a Civil Rights group. Still let’s play a little game. Let’s look at the quintessential 20th Century civil rights group: The NAACP. What have they said about the violent riots in Ferguson, or really other places like LA that were almost exclusively perpetrated by blacks? How about the anti-police violent protests that have happened in the wake of the death of Eric Garner, and the execution of two police officers in New York? How about the HUGE issue of black-on-black crime in our inner cities.
Yeah, go fuck yourself!
We will stop pointing at Chicago and saying gun laws don’t work. We will admit the majority of Chicago crime guns are trafficked from states and counties with loose laws.
Ok so trafficked from other states? NOPE! Illinois crime guns are coming from Illinois, and the time-to-crime time is over 10 years. This isn’t trafficking. Also what counties in Illinois have “loose laws”? Sorry, but that’s like saying my relatively permissive town in Mass has “loose laws”. Yes the local police don’t treat me like shit because I’m a gun owner, but there’s only so much they can do for me and my right to keep and bear arms.
We will stop saying “the government is going to take your guns” to block federal laws. The confiscation we announced 7 years ago never happened.
But you, and other anti-gunners WANT to confiscate all lawfully held guns. Sorry, you aren’t putting my concerns at ease….
We will stop blaming “mental health” problems for U.S. gun violence. We admit every country in the world has mental health problems but they don’t have Newtowns and Virginia Techs.
No, they have WORSE!
We admit fighting universal background checks arms criminals and that armed criminals sells more guns to “good guys.” Ka-ching.
Yeah, see Illinois, and Massachusetts. Criminals break the law, so adding one more law, while ignoring enforcement with existing laws which are more than adequate is letting your partisan flag show!
We acknowledge that “outlaws” don’t have guns in the 28 EU countries, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other countries with strict gun regulations. We also admit, grudgingly, they are not “tyrannies.”
BULLSHIT! Any research will show the criminal elements in EVERY country are armed. In countries with HEAVY restrictions on guns, the criminals smuggle MILITARY hardware rather than bother with stolen civilian guns.
We will stop our insulting comparison of guns to knives, hammers, cars and swimming pools–none of which kill when used as directed. On the same day as the Sandy Hook massacre, 20 Chinese school children were attacked with a knife and none died.
Yet there have been many more school stabbings that have killed MORE than Sandy Hook, and pools and hammers still kill more people than guns, so your point is shallow and smug.
We accept responsibility for the armed vigilante movement popularized by George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. We admit “concealed carry” laws are the biggest revenue infusion since “Obama is going to take your guns.”
You are a lunatic!
We will stop defending sales to civilians of non-defensive weapons like TrackingPoint’s “can’t miss” sniper rifle. We admit they are ready-made for insurrectionists, terrorists and hate groups.
Yep, because there have been so many problems with this rifle….lunatic!
We regret our work to help suspected domestic abusers keep their guns while under orders of protection. We admit this costs many women’s lives and that our sleazy sales pitch to tell women to arm themselves too just makes things worse.
Ungh….man you think a LOT of yourself…..
And then there’s this:
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Anti-gunners are ALL the same!
We will stop pointing at Chicago and saying gun laws don’t work. We will admit the majority of Chicago crime guns are trafficked from states and counties with loose laws.
Hey Mr/Ms Anti-Rights Cultists?
Could you explain to me why those counties and states with ‘loose laws’ don’t have as high as a homicide rate as Chicago?
I mean if the loose laws are the problem then obviously some place like Fort Worth Texas should be worse then Chicago, right. Except that isn’t the case; Fort Worth has a homicide rate around 6 per 100K and Chicago is around 10 per 100K.
Even immediately outside of Chicago/Cook County, the homicide rate is 1/5th that of the city.
Another inconvenient note about the “Iron Pipeline”. Of course it’s a myth, but if it WAS true then violent gang members are traveling to gun-friendly zones to acquire guns…and while they’re there they’re on their best behavior while they’re there.
Why might that be, if in fact it’s true?
I’m looking forward to the next couple of years to see what the implementation of their new shall-issue permit system will have on crime. I just recently heard that they have passed 90,000 issued carry permits. That’s about half of the total in my home state of Minnesota.
The challenge being that there will be a period of time in which any improvements will be attributed to policing techniques that have up until now, haven’t worked. Makes you wonder if cities should include stipulations in contracts for Chief of Police so they can be kicked to the curb if they don’t get results.
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I’ve commented with Joan, I would be AMAZED if somebody would write a post this ignorant and tone-deaf and ALSO have an open mind.
For years I wanted to believe that many of the antis who were preaching from the hills about the glory of gun control were like myself when I was anti-gun, but let’s face it, even when I was anti-gun the best I’d do is engage somebody in a debate when it came up in polite conversation, I would have never put my thoughts up on a public forum because I KNEW I hadn’t researched the issue.
By the time I researched the issue, I had changed my views.
She’s WILLFULLY ignorant, and an email won’t fix that, but let me know if you hear anything different.