Cliff Schecter The National Rifle Association has been warning us about the threat of a heavily-armed and dangerous government crushing dissent for decades. Their leader, Wayne LaPierre, even referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as "jack-booted thugs." Their dystopian nightmare sounds exactly like what’s happening in Ferguson, Missouri. Yet somehow, the NRA seems to have missed the whole thing with the SWAT teams and the tank-like vehicles and the snipers and the LRAD sound cannon and the tear gas and the rubber bullets being trained on unarmed Americans. Not a peep from LaPierre on this extended assault on citizens of Ferguson, at least that I can find. If I were suspicious of their motives--and I am--I might point out that when I visited their 9 acres of militarized gun-fun also known as their convention in Indianapolis, I saw fewer black faces than in your average episode of The Dukes of Hazzard. I'd also point out that LaPierre blows just about every tune he knows on his dog whistle, when warning his membership of the horrors confronting them during this period when violent crime has fallen to its lowest level in a generation: We don't trust government, because government itself has proven unworthy of our trust. We trust ourselves and we trust what we know in our hearts to be right. We trust our freedom. In this uncertain world, surrounded by lies and corruption everywhere you look, there is no greater freedom than the right to survive and protect our families with all the rifles, shotguns, and handguns we want. We know in the world that surrounds us there are terrorists and there are home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, and rapers, and haters, and campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse our society that sustains us all. Besides making you wonder who spiked his drink with goofballs, what jumps out about that friendly little harangue? Who do you think LaPierre's speech is meant for when he mentions "terrorists" and "drug cartels" and "carjackers" and "knockout gamers?" I promise you the hardcore gun fetishists he's preaching to are not picturing Eric Rudolph or George Jung. If in doubt, the NRA's board can clarify the leadership’s view of the world. Burnt out rock n' roller Ted Nugent has referred to the "Dark Continent of Africa," and called President Obama “an avowed racist who claimed because Trayvon Martin was black…a gangster and an attacker and a doper, that he could have been his son." Others among the group have supported Apartheid, wished the South had won the Civil War and called African-American culture inferior, among other things. None have performed in blackface to my knowledge, but the decade is still young. If I’m being unfair, then one must explain why there is nary a mention of Ferguson on the NRA's website either. Oh wait, I'm sorry, there is a link to an article on the spike in gun sales in the area because of the unrest (Not that they're celebrating that!). You can also find out how U.S. gun owners see some conspiracy in President Obama's sanctions on the Russian AK-47 and how a veteran got kicked out of Great Adventure in New Jersey for wearing a t-shirt that said "Keep calm and return fire." (They offered to let him in with a different shirt, but he refused.)
I'll take a stab at this. The NRA or really any pro gun person is afraid of the government using force to "take" their guns or their property. They are NOT against police doing their job and protecting property and business. A textbook example of this was the standoff in Waco when Janet Reno gave the go ahead to charge a compound on private party that led to the death of dozens of women and children who were using weapons to "defend" their private property. I'm not even going to try to defend that sick f*ck Koresh or his compound, but the legality of what the government did stunk to high Heaven. Pro gun supporters support the ownership of firearms "specifically" so they cannot be taken away and also to defend their homes and their businesses. And it's the police job not to attack or kill people on their own property as the Clinton Administration did, but rather to protect and defend such property and business. THAT is why the NRA is not in Ferguson, MO. Hopefully I cleared this up for you.
Exactly. Were rioters lobbing Molotov cocktails and destroying businesses at Waco, Ruby Ridge or the Bundy ranch? Nope. And 45 of the 130 Branch Davidian members were black. So when LaPierre referred to "jackbooted thugs," it had nothing to do with defending "whites only." There's a major distinction between LA riots/Ferguson and other cases of government overreach. You just have to take off your PC, race-obsessed blinders to understand it. Apparently the author of this god-awful hack piece can't do that. I appreciate the article, though. One day I may write a book on detecting logical fallacies and various biases. This is a goldmine: guilt-by-association, ad hominem, etc. Too bad words are so cheap in the digital age; this may be fit for emergency toilet paper if it were in print. Hey, that's an idea. db, you can print copies and take it to noble looters in Ferguson! Maybe they're defecating publicly on the streets like the Occupy Wall Streeters did. Oh, and once again the Left plays down knockout games. Martin and Brown are national tragedies, yet 7 "polar bear hunting" deaths are something to sneeze at. Sick.
These are the facts the left likes to conveniently ignore, there was never ANY violence/looting started by the protestors at any of these protests.
Typical liberal moron. Ferguson illustrates why the NRA has been right not to compromise an inch. The government, under pressure from the race hustlers who run the democrat party, pulled back and left business owners to be looted and burnt out by a mob of rioting animals. In fact, many conservatives did comment on the militarized police force and have called for the process to end.
Conservatives support #BlackOpenCarry despite some political differences The unrest in Ferguson, Missouri has inspired some groups of urban blacks to exercise their Second Amendment rights and open carry rights in states where they exist. The #BlackOpenCarry hashtag was met with near unanimous support from conservatives and 2A activists despite a few differences of opinion about politics. http://twitchy.com/2014/08/21/conse...opencarry-despite-some-political-differences/
Yep, looky there. Eventually, the sharper will see where all this is headed. I'm surprised no one has seen it yet. At least none that I'm aware of.