Another reason to join the NRA
Another plan on the horizon: the Ammunition Coding System. You know, since gun registration works so well.
Do your part! Join the NRA today.
From Peter at Bayou Renaissance Man
The most important thing you can do now
The day is here. Obama has won. Guns are flying off the shelf. You can’t buy an Evil Black Rifle to save your life.
Before he took it down, his transition website contained this gem (rescued from the memory hole by Google cache.) The important part:
Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets
So, stripped of the codewords, here is what President-elect Obama is planning to do:
- Allow folks like Mike Bloomberg access to gun trace data to aid his lawsuits
- Shut down private transfers of firearms
- Enforce “smart gun” legislation
- Ban semi-auto firearms
The single most effective thing that you can do to stop him is this: join the NRA. Do it today. Right now, in fact. Click here. I’ll wait.
You are already an NRA member, you say? Great! Reach out to 5 other gunnies, or other freedom loving individuals, and get them to join. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Here’s the deal, folks. We are in the fight of our lives. The NRA is the biggest pro-gun lobbying organization in the nation. If NRA lobbies Congress as a 4 million member organization, it has a certain amount of influence. If NRA lobbies Congress as a 40 million member organization, it has incredible power. There are over 100 million gun owners in the United States. NRA has 4 million members. That means that there are at least 96 million of you who are letting the rest of us carry you. I’m tired of carrying you.
“But George…I don’t like the NRA. I disagree with them on…”
Don’t care. Join anyway.
“But I’m a member of…”
Don’t care. Great…join them all. But you HAVE GOT to be a member of NRA. This is about numbers.
“They keep asking me for money.”
Quit your bitching. Call them and tell them to stop sending mail. They will put you on the list. Join the freaking organization.
“They’ll never take my guns. I’ll bury them, see, and…”
Quit the macho internet fantasies and do something productive. Spend the $35 and join the NRA.
In fact, if you are too cheap to spend the $35, if your gun rights aren’t worth $3 a month to you…email me, and I’ll pay it for you.
If everyone dropping cash on firearms today would join up…there would be no need to hoard. We would have the numbers to stop the ban before it happens.
I’m going to make a prediction. The AWB will be one of the first things on BHO’s agenda. I’d say we have until March or so to stop this train. Take the most effective, easiest step you can…join the NRA today.
Tyrrany of the majority
In local news, Wesley Chapel, NC just unanimously passed an ordinance effectively outlawing target practice within the village. The new law prohibits the discharge of a firearm except in self defense, by a law enforcement officer on duty, to kill a dangerous animal, or by a licensed hunter. Target shooting is prohibited.
The ordinance is aimed at preventing one man, Dr. Michael Land, from using his private shooting range. Dr. Land bought his land in 1991, well before the current suburban encroachment. After safety complaints, Dr. Land had his range inspected by the NRA. The NRA found that the range was “no threat to the neighborhood.” But after complaints of noise, the village finally voted on the ordinance.
Dr. Land should have been protected by the North Carolina Shooting Sports Range Act of 1997, which prohibits lawsuits on the basis of noise complaints. The village chose to dodge the law, and instead of prohibiting the range, they simply chose to prohibit the USE of the range. Dr. Land has promised to respond legally.
Can’t find a link to a current article, but here is a link to an older story about the controversy.
If I were Dr. Land, I would have an awful lot of unsuccessful hunts on my land.
Understanding half the problem
Bitter has linked to a letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer that appears to be from a woman whose child was murdered in Philadelphia.
My beloved son was stolen from me on Oct. 4, 2006. I say “stolen” because that’s what happens. Our children aren’t “lost,” they are stolen from us by a horrid evil that lives in the hearts and minds of some human beings.
She then goes on a diatribe about how the NRA is to blame.
Who need guns to prove how tough they are – why don’t we put the blame where it truly belongs? They are an open, festering, rotten wound on the soul of this country that will never heal until something is done about them.
If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, they call themselves the National Rifle Association! We’ll continue to have a gun problem as long as we have people who are afraid of their own shadows.
No one in this nation is safe. No one!
Yesterday, I posted about my experience on 9/11, and how it took three planes crashing into buildings before I understood what was happening. Our minds reject horrible things…some things are so horrible that we simply reject the obvious explanation. The author of this letter suffers from this problem. She gets half of the problem right:
they are stolen from us by a horrid evil that lives in the hearts and minds of some human beings.
and later
No one in this nation is safe. No one!
Yes, that’s true. And unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to stop that. The UK has found that out. When you ban guns, you don’t stop the violence…it just becomes violence with knives, or hammers, or fists. And that is a very, very hard thing to face. It’s hard to face because it means that there isn’t a simple solution.
The only way, I believe, to stop violence is to make it ineffective. Make it costly. Make sure that anyone who plans to visit violence on another human being knows that they will have violence visited right back upon them. We need to make the thugs in this world as afraid of us as we are of them. And that takes the will and the fight and the courage to realize what is happening, and then resolve to do something about it. And that, my friends, is very hard thing to face indeed.
UPDATE:
I should have known. Turns out that there is more the story.
H/T to Days of Our Trailers
Quote of the day
Today’s quote of the day comes from Barack *REDACTED* Obama. Barack on gun control:
“Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress.”
Note the use of present tense. Not a hypothetical…an honest look for once.
Later:
“This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’
In other news, I just got my “I’m a bitter gun owner and I vote!” stickers from the NRA-ILA. The littlest newbie got a set as well (life member, dontcha know), and was tickled pink.
Hat tip to Ahab
5-4 is too close
Sebastian makes a good point. While we celebrate that 5 justices support the constitution, that means that 4 don’t.
I don’t care for McCain, either. But, as much as Col. Tighe sucks…B-Ho sucks worse. We have several Supreme picks coming up in whoever’s first term.
Enough said.
Um…yeah, that’s exactly what it means
Money quote, from Justice Stevens’ dissent:
“The Court would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the
Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to
elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons…”
Um, yes, Mr. Justice Stevens, that’s rather the point….
Let Freedom Ring!!!!
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a
firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
The Supreme Court struck down the D.C. gun ban. Hallelujah!
The opinion is here.
Key findings:
- There is an individual right to keep and bear arms.
- This right is not dependant on any kind of militia service
- Self defense is a legitimate use of firearms, envisioned by the founders.
- The DC law is effectively a ban, because it prevents self defense.
Hello, world.
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