The gun lobbies really ought to be more careful whom they put on their mailing lists. It would lessen the likelihood that responsible citizens like me would call them out.
Case in point: I very recently received an e-mail from Dudley Brown, Executive Director of the National Association for Gun Rights. That's his picture at right.
Gun-crazy organzation unwittingly
sends the crank an e-letter
“Dear NAGR supporter,” Dudley Brown’s e-letter began.
Me an NAGR supporter? If he believed that, he had to be smoking something highly illegal. But I read on.
“Please forgive my bluntness, but the United States Government thinks you’re a terrorist,” he informed me.
Well, now I knew he was pulling my chain. But I figured I’d read along with the gag.
Dudley’s next statement was, “And now they’re trying to pass a bill allowing gun-grabbing Attorney General Eric Holder to revoke all your Second Amendment rights at will if he has ‘a reasonable belief’ you could pose a threat.’”
Personally, I think that if the AG really did had a reasonable belief that I’m a threat, he ought to make sure I don’t have a gun. Hey, you wouldn’t want me to shoot up a subway car full of innocent commuters, or blow away anybody’s kids at some high school. So what’s Dudley complaining about?
Goons, gun owners and
“little old church ladies”
Dudley goes on to tell me that the “goons” at the Department of Homeland Security has targeted “gun owners, honorably discharged veterans and little old church ladies as threats to the security and stability of the United States of America.”
Really? Well, not only that, says Dudley, but…
“Even a gesture as simple as placing a pro-gun bumper sticker on your car, or supporting a pro-gun candidate makes you a potential “domestic terrorist” in the eyes of the thugs running our government.”
Holy cow! Wow! Yeow! That really does sound scary. It’s even scarier than that when Dudley declares, “and to add insult to injury, Barack Obama’s Surveillance Czar Janet Napolitano sees no difference between law-abiding gun owners like you and violent racists who murder and vandalize.”
What in the world is
Dudley talking about?
That’s absolutely nightmare-making—all those loaded words like “murder” and “violent racists” until you find out what the hell it is that Dudley is talking about:
“I’m talking about H.R. 2159,the shockingly misnamed ’Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009.’” Dudley’s walk on the wild side of the Big Lie even applies to Republicans like Peter King who generally supports a pretty wide open interpretation of the Second Amendment.
“These anti-gun Republicans-in-Name-Only want to disarm you because they fear your pro-liberty views,” says Dudley, and in addition…
“In fact, your love of freedom frightens them so much that they’re now going to great lengths to label you a domestic terrorist.”
Boy, that had me so scared that I went and looked up the actual bill, “The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009.”
The truth about HR 2159
And guess what?
Not a word in the bill about bumper stickers, little old ladies, or honorably discharged veterans. It’s all about people who are “known (or appropriately suspected) to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism, or providing material support thereof, and the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.”
It also applies to people who “may use explosives in connection with terrorism.”
Nowhere does the bill single out you, me, the little old lady next door or war vets—unless you happen to be planning to blow up an airplane full of innocent passengers, or a government building full of American citizens, or you happen to be planning to shoot up a U.S. Army base. Acts of terrorism or treason, all.
Telling lies for fun
(and your money)
So either Dudley is lying through his teeth to freak out people who simply happen to own guns so they’ll send him money, or he has a constituency of traitors and enemy agents—which of course would imply his National Association for Gun Rights is a subversive organization.
Problem is, if Dudley and the National Association for Gun Rights get their way, it’ll be all that much easier for a terrorist to launch the next 9/11 or Oklahoma City. Or simply to walk into a crowded room full of innocent people somewhere and open fire with his personal AK47, bought and paid for at some gun show somewhere.
Can any patriotic citizen seriously be for that?
5 comments:
Oh! Come on!
You have to support the rights of criminals, lunatics, and terrorists to own firearms!
After all, the solution to criminals having guns is to make it easier for criminals to get guns!
Thanks for dissecting the gun loon BS.
It's amazing how their stuff doesn't stand scrutiny and critical thinking.
But, it's all about emotion (fear): you can't be a defenseless victim of an armed thug!
So, learn karate!
sounds like an educated fool posted this.
If there were evidence of critical thinking here, there might be a debate of facts rather than the usual collection of snarky comments. Critical thinking engenders exposure to all sides of the argument; research of the actual statistics and a comment or two gleaned from actual research done over the last few decades.
Dudley Brown is another false patriot lunatic worried about his rights to carry a firearm while our economy is being systematically destroyed by this organized crime syndicate called the Federal Reserve System.
I get E-mails from Brown all the time. I've repeatedly asked this lunatic to stop e-mailing me, yet he continues to do so.
What's scary is that Brown and nuts like him are licensed to carry firearms.
"Brown and nuts like him are licensed to carry firearms...."
I am licensed. Do you know me personally? I am licensed because I like to have protection in my home and vehicle. I was almost carjacked and having protection in my vehicle save me. You need to stop pointing fingers and labeling people you do not even know.
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