Hillary compares NRA to Iranians, communists

When Mr. Obama says he supports the Second Amendment, and will not take away people’s guns, rational people know he’s lying, and so do his followers.

She suggested that responsible gun owners ought to splinter from the NRA in order to create a new group that aims to balance ownership with legislation to prevent guns from being sold to problematic individuals.

Stephen Benson first learned during Navy SEAL training that carrying a gun would be more likely to expose him to gun violence. The online vitriol can be intense. I have supported lawmakers who can not give me valid reasons for voting in favor of the NRA lobbyists to take those powers away from our mayors. Psychologically this lack of worry makes sense too.

By last week, he had detached himself completely from a possible solution, even as he launched a broad attack on every major argument from the pro-gun camp. On top of gun ownership, the rural/urban population split and demographics seem to matter. But only 5 million belong to the NRA, which is often portrayed as the voice of hunters, skeet shooters and other gun owners.

No doubt, gun owners would scream that such a requirement represented a big-government intrusion into their privacy and constitutional rights.

As a gun owner myself, I am for having background checks mandatory at gun shows as long as it is done at a nominal cost.

If there were universal background checks, if people weren’t able to buy an unlimited number of guns, the gun violence in Chicago – and other cities – would decrease.

This summer he again pushed a gun control bill which failed. “To me, it’s more like a case of the emperor without clothes”. A few of their reactions were offensively absurd – Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal blamed the shootings on abortion and video games – but all of them rejected the idea that the violence warrants any type of serious gun policy response.

A 2014 Washington Post excerpt from former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, was enthusiastically revived on social media. But they argue tighter control could still save a significant number of lives.

Gun control groups can also now boast more financial support than the NRA. “But it’s not. We can do sensible things”.

If anything, the above is evidence for stricter, federally mandated gun control laws that will help to eliminate a black market where criminals pipeline in firearms from areas with lax regulations to areas with high amounts of crime. And he’s stopped listening to their views.

But they do have a political leg to stand on, a powerful political leg standing on the deep fears of a small group of people who feel that their freedom to live the way they want to, that their control over their own lives and futures, is threatened. New efforts are now underway.

My NRA was all about marksmanship, safety and responsibly.

Bond’s strategy: Use humor and a conversational tone. An additional 60 people a day kill themselves with guns.

If you want to work for the NRA, you’ll need to agree to an investigation of your employment and financial history as well as, perhaps, your physical and mental health.

On the other hand, the few fierce radicals of the gun rights movement are scared, deeply scared. We’re not trying to be involved in who’s allowed to own what. And there’s a lot more we can do to stop them.

No, drunk uncle, but we do regulate them. Whether it’s sitting in the passenger seat of a auto and being nervous because you don’t have the wheel in your hand, or suffering as a democratic society tells you what to do and imposes values that conflict with yours, when you don’t control what’s happening to you – that’s really scary. The answer: “Safety is not a side; it’s everyone’s personal responsibility”. We must call for corporate responsibility, and enforce it by law if it’s not forthcoming.

But when it comes to changing the gun debate, dating a swamp troll might be less challenging. By comparison, the NRA raised almost $350 million in 2013. “Old habits die hard”.