(October 25, 2020 at 5:13 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(October 25, 2020 at 5:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don’t think I’ll ever understand the objection that some gun rights supporters have to taking additional steps to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people.
I’m stupid that way.
Boru
Because those steps rarely if ever work. So they keep trying new gun laws until they try the one that says "no guns".
Dude, listen to yourself. You're even word for word, spewing the exact same rhetoric the gun lobbyists, NRA or whoever, about the slippery slope of "dhey gunna thake meh gunz awai!" party line ever since they became political, when they saw dollar signs for existing as gun lobbyists instead of an organization concerned with the 2nd Amendment and actually about guns.
I'm not pulling this out my ass, just read their own words on their About page on their own website, for the NRA:
https://home.nra.org/about-the-nra/
Now, what are, in this case the NRA, saying in a PR environment - set apart from their own words on their own website? I'm positive you'll find an incongruence. They were originally about safe gun use, self-defence and later voiced & made their support for the hunting community known. All this political bullshit was attached years later in 1934 (from their own About page).
Where I live, we don't have anything coming close to a gun club like the NRA, even though we have loads of guns for hunting hares and various birds in the mountains and at sea. We obviously have a different culture on guns than Americans, which I personally as an outside observer find to be fetishizing guns. I think these gun clubs should exclusively be about safe & educational use of guns in training, self-defence and hunting. But that's just me. Leave the political bullshit to politicians, and I'm confident in saying a lot politicians unassociated with any gun clubs are sympathetic with any alterations of the 2nd Amendment, and would fight that, while still being uninvolved with any gun club. Thanks to lobbying, the reality is different from that vision.
*sigh*
Enough with this gun control politicized bullshit; all I'm seeing in this incidence, from the OPs article, is a person with mental health challenges (they're alluding to him having Aspergers in the article) that veered straight off a cliff, into actual & tangible intentions to fuck shit up, in this case a plan to murder a presidential candidate. BTW, the NRA is not mentioned once in the article.