Posts Tagged ‘National Rifle Assn. (NRA)’
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
As far as I can see, gun control is going almost nowhere, at least with the momentum that has been created by the increased gun violence nationwide. Perhaps we have concentrated too much on mass killings like Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Although this kind of carnage is horrific, it still represents but a small amount of the gun deaths that take place daily. Apparently statistics like ‘there are some 300 million guns in American households’ or ‘88.8 per 10...
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Tags: gun control, Gun violence statistics, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Wayne LaPierre
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
What is more important right now? Whether we ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, make universal background checks the law, eliminate straw purchases, concentrate on improving investigations into and sharing of mental health data, create a registry of firearms or other gun control legislation being proposed, there is an even more pressing problem to be reckoned with. It is what do we do with about 8 million cowboys and cowgirls walking around American streets with either ...
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Tags: 2nd Amendment, Concealed carry laws, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Supreme Court, Wayne LaPierre
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Wikipedia says:
The Tea Party “is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution, reducing U.S. government spending and taxes, and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.” 
The “Party” took off in 2009 supporting several conservative candidates and labeled itself from the beginning as a crowd of conservative fanatics, many of which sported double-digit IQs. Back in 2011 even Glenn Beck accused the members...
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Tags: Gun rights, Judson Phillips, Michelle Bachmann, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), racism, Tea Party
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Although Taylor Marsh is a well-known political analyst, writer and strategist, I still might have discounted someone I never heard of like Stan Solomon whose
Talk to Solomon Show recently had conservative blogger Greg W. Howard on his show. I have also not heard of Howard but being new to the game of critical politics, just figure I may not yet be up to speed. However, when Larry Pratt’s name came up I not only took notice but became very interested. As a gun fanatic, Pratt ...
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Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Manson, Greg W. Howard, gun control, Helter Skelter, Larry Pratt, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Stan Solomon, Wayne LaPierre
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
But they do. These die-hard gun bubbas who strut around with their weapons either at their side or concealed completely from the public, are the real believers who do it because they have to have some way to prove their manhood. And they would follow the head fanatic, wacky Wayne, to the end of the world if he said so. It is amazing to me just how easily he can arouse these double-digit IQs to do his bidding and then force them to come back again and again to feed from the same...
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Tags: Barack Obama, Gabby Giffords, gun control, Mark Kelly, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Universal background checks, Wayne LaPierre
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Mindy McCreadyI am not a country music fan but it was tragic to hear that singer Mindy McCready had taken her life…with a gun. On Monday, 4 people were shot in Spokane, 2 at a night club, 2 more nearby. And then on Tuesday a gunman went on a shooting spree in Southern California that left 4 people dead, including the shooter. Does the question, “What does it take?” come to mind? Abby Rogers in Business Insider says,
“A History Of Gun Control Laws Shows US Citizens... (more...)
Tags: Adam Winkler, Gabby Giffords, Gun control laws history, Mindy McCready, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), New York gun control law, Wayne LaPierre
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Alex Seitz-Wald has done an excellent job in Salon of organizing and evaluating statistics that relate to the success of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Having expired in 2004, the question was whether or not it had helped reduce gun violence while in effect. The answer is that it did, especially when you consider the main obstacle the results were up against. In 1996 Congress passed a law limiting the use of gun violence data collected that could be used to analyze this issue.&n...
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Tags: .223 Bushmaster AR-15, 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Christopher Koper, high-capacity magazines, Jeffrey Roth, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Wayne LaPierre
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Monday, February 18th, 2013
It’s all about “ME,” and by that I mean a dysfunctional Congress thinking only about what it takes to get reelected. When it means turning on a huge new voting population like Hispanics, they are now rushing in to enlist this group in hopes of holding on to their jobs in 2014, and maybe adding a few seats in heavily Latino districts. But when it comes to
curbing gun violence through the passage of reasonable gun control legislation that will save innocent lives, the votes evapo...
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Tags: Dennis DeConcini, gun control, immigration reform, John McCain, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Wayne LaPierre
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Friday, February 15th, 2013
Alan Singer is a social studies educator at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York and the editor of Social Science Docket (a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for Social Studies). Apparently he has done his homework on the 2ndAmendment in research for an article in the Huff Post titled,
“Does the U.S. Constitution Prevent Gun Control?” The answer to this question is a resounding “Yes” if asked of the gun nuts and their head fanatic Wayne LaPierre...
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Tags: 2nd Amendment, District Of Columbia v. Heller, gun control, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Textualism, U.S. Constitution, Wayne LaPierre
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Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Gun trafficking is closely related to straw buyers. The latter is defined as an illegal firearm purchase where the actual buyer of the gun, being unable to pass the required federal background check or desiring to not have his or her name associated with the transaction, uses a proxy buyer who can pass the required background check to purchase the firearm for him/her. You can see a list of those prohibited to purchase a gun
here. It is illegal to sell to these people but in man...
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Tags: Brady Campaign, Gun trafficking, Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2012, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Straw purchases, Wayne LaPierre
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
When you live in the state of Arizona and regularly experience the insanity of a Republican state legislature led by a correspondingly moonstruck governor, it is hard to reconcile that these apparently unbalanced individuals are running your state. I grew up in the South and went through the States’ Rights movement and actually participated in a Dixiecrat rally in 1948. I thought these people were crazy then, and I think the states’ rights fanatics in Arizona are equally insane.&...
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Tags: Arizona State Legislature, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV), Dixiecrat, Jan Brewer, Ladd Everitt, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Steve Kozachik, Wayne LaPierre
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Here’s an example of the mentality of some members in this group of gun nuts. A National Rifle Assn. (NRA) member wears a shirt with the words, “If you know how many guns you own…you don’t own enough,” printed on the back. It is the typical thinking prevalent of a minority in this organization of gun worshippers led by head fanatic, Wayne LaPierre. It is also the kind of thinking that has dumped 300 million firearms on American streets making it the most gun-loving cu...
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Tags: National Rifle Assn. (NRA), NRA Enemies List, Singer Tony Bennett, Wayne LaPierre
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Friday, February 8th, 2013
On Fox News—where else?—Andrew Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst, said on Jan. 10, “If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had had the firepower and the ammunition that the Nazis did, some of Poland might have stayed free and more persons would have survived the Holocaust.” Anthony Polonsky, a professor of Holocaust studies at Brandeis University, questions another comparison of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which about 750 Jews took up arms, killed about 25 Nazis and briefly s...
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Tags: Aaron Zelman, Alex Jones, Andrew Napolitano, Anthony Polonsky, John Rocker, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Samuel Wurzelbacher, Wayne LaPierre
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013
As have many other celebrities done, now Paul Krugman, from the field of economics, has pronounced his feelings about the leading U.S. gun lobby, the National Rifle Assn. (NRA). They are an “insane organization,” he laments, in a situation where the pro-gun rights groups have suddenly been placed on the defensive. Krugman didn’t say it but I will. Wacky Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, is the craziest of them all with its President, David Keene, not far behind.
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Tags: National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Paul Krugman, Progressive Politics, Wayne LaPierre, “The Conscience of a Liberal”
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Albert Bender is a journalist and Cherokee activist taking the position that you can blame guns for most problems that face Americans today. From slavery to Native Americans, it is a gun culture in the U.S. fostered by white Americans that has created the dilemma that we are in. Bender, as many others are beginning to do, is bringing the crisis with gun violence closer and closer to the health care system, particularly mental health. Mr. Bender takes aim at what he calls a “m...
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Tags: CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Cherokee Albert Bender, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Wayne LaPierre
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
The studies keep pouring in on gun control vs. gun rights and they keep saying the same thing. The American public wants more gun regulations, and this includes members of the National Rifle Assn. (NRA). The time has come for the gun rights fanatics like Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, to prove these studies bogus or admit defeat and get on with saving people’s lives with reasonable gun control laws. LaPierre’s “absolutist” hogwash on gun owners’ rights under the 2nd...
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Tags: Barack Obama, gun control, Gun show loophole, Johns Hopkins University, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Wayne LaPierre
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
No one can feel the grief that
MarkMattioli feels, except the other nineteen families whose children ages 6 and 7 were slaughtered by Adam Lanza in the Newtown Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last December. But the father is way off base when he said, “there are more than enough gun laws on the books.” Although the proposed legislation by President Obama for universal background checks, including private sales at gun shows, wouldn’t have helped in this instance, it will c...
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Tags: Asperger’s syndrome, Barack Obama, Mark Mattioli, National Rifle Assn. (NRA), Newtown Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Wayne LaPierre
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