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It’s election time. And the lies are flowing widely about guns and gun rights. They need to be challenged. With a recent poll showing even 92% of gun owners support measures to keep guns away from those who should not have them
Well Joan has finally come to her senses and is Challenging that dubious “90% Support Gun Control” statistic.
Of course I kid, here’s what she really thinks:
This is the question that has to be asked over and over again. If large majorities of Americans support common sense measures to keep us all safer in our communities, why do politicians pander to the corporate gun lobby? It’s pretty simple. The NRA lobbyists and leaders and other gun rights organizations have for years now hyped up fear and paranoia about gun rights. Their minions who believe this stuff go after the politicians in a not so subtle way by telling lies about gun rights and throwing money and support to the opposition. I guess that’s politics. If something is said often enough it can become a “truth”. What the corporate gun lobby continues to say is that any measure concerning gun safety reform leads to gun registration, confiscation and gun bans. That is simply not true. But the truth gets lost in the election hype and candidates avoid wanting to talk about it. We are talking about an issue that affects thousands of Americans and senseless loss of life. The truth is vitally important.
Got that! Almost nobody supports so-called “Assault Weapons” being legal, or allowing people to sell their own property privately. The only reason why no new laws have been enacted is the lobbyists of the “Corporate Gun Lobby”. Still this doesn’t pass the sniff test. I guess it COULD be argued that since most gun companies make at least ONE gun that is considered an “Assault Weapon” under various definitions. To modify, or stop selling those firearms would cost the company a lot of money. (Of course I suspect the Federal AWB of ’94 might have paid for many of those setbacks simply by adding extra shifts and stockpiling pre-ban magazines, and selling them at a markup) Still why would gun companies care one bit about background checks and back-door registration. Once a gun is sold the gun companies have made their money. When I buy a Mosin Nagant, or a Makarov, The Soviet Union/ Russia doesn’t see a cent of my money, because the gun had been sold ages ago to American companies. Same goes if I buy a used Smith and Wesson revolver. If I buy it at a gun shop, or if I buy it privately, the boys and girls in Springfield don’t see a penny. They made their money selling it new to whatever FFL got it first, and that’s that. The gun changing hands after the fact means nothing to them. Still if I had to walk into a gun shop every time I did a horse-trade, I’d have to walk past all those NEW guns, Magazines and Accessories, and I might be tempted to make additional purchases.
They might argue that the NRA has “Bought off” the politicians, but at the same time Michael Bloomberg alone (and the Joyce Foundation, and the Brady Campaign, while weak, are still able to spend some money too) is spending as much as the NRA is on political action.
“Hyping Fear and Paranoia”, also doesn’t really seem to hold water, as the News Media is still good about seeking out anti-gun cranks to give “their side” of the issue. Remember Elliot Fienmann? He was the crank that told all the national news agencies he would organize a boycott of Starbucks, and essentially bankrupt the company. Of course he’s just a lunatic….but he got air time on all the major news networks talking crazy. Funny, I’ve never been asked to be on the National News to talk about pro-gun things. So it isn’t a better peddling of a message, since the anti-gun forces indeed still have the bigger megaphone.
The bottom line is the 90% number isn’t true. It might be a valid number, but an invalid question, ie people supporting the idea of background checks, but not realizing in the various laws proposed it would make selling your own property outside of a gun shop illegal, or even letting a friend shoot your gun at the range, or on a hunting trip. Or it could be just pure crap.
Either way, if 90% of all gun owners were in favor of these laws it would have passed AGES ago. Hell the 94 AWB didn’t have that level of support, and it passed!
Also funny that Joan says “If something is said often enough it can become a “truth”.” Joan is referencing “The Big Lie”, but rather ironic that she claims the pro-gun side is lying, uses terms like “Paranoia”, “Fear”, about registration and confiscation (which Joan openly supports!) and talks about public safety….yet she has never mentioned the declining violent crime rate in this country. Hell she seems to be working double time to make it appear that we are LESS safe today than we were 20 years ago when gun control was at it’s apex.
Who’s spreading the big lies?
