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lovmuffin -> RE: Another "successful" carry story (1/24/2015 12:47:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin
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Musicmystery
In fact, the NRA quite explicitly plays to this paranoia -- if you go to join, here's the top of page:
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Dear Fellow American:
What's happening RIGHT NOW in Washington, D.C. could spell disaster for YOUR guns and YOUR Second Amendment rights!
Hundreds of gun-ban politicians, political appointees and bureaucrats are now writing regulations, casting votes and passing laws that could all but eliminate your right to own a gun. Their agenda starts with licensing, registering, fingerprinting, inspecting and cataloging every firearm, firearm owner and firearm transfer in the United States ...
... And it ends with an outright ban on your guns!!!!
Only you can stop the anti-gunners and prevent the obliteration of our Second Amendment rights...
by joining NRA today.
Ya think ya just get that stuff in membership advertising ? Join up and you'll keep getting the same type of stuff in letters that come every 2 - 3 weeks asking for donations.
If they changed "passing laws" to trying to pass laws in the letter you cited it wouldn't even have been exaggerated.
IMO, if it wasn't for the NRA we would have virtually been reduced to muzzle loaders by now. Ok........so I may have slightly exaggerated that last sentence[8D]
And that's my point.
The continual hyperbole presents an image of paranoiac hysteria. And that's hard to take seriously.
Or those who double down on supporting/defending the mania.
Uh.....well, I only said slightly exaggerated. After all Canada doesn't have an NRA. Australia doesn't have an NRA. The UK doesn't have an NRA. I saw what happened in those places or was that just the imaginings of my overly paranoid gun nutery schizophrenic macho mind ?
Maybe the gun grabbers didn't go from their handgun control agenda to calling for a ban on an entire class of firearms (semi automatics) agenda in 1989 because of some whack job who shot up a school yard and should have been by all rights never out on the street (see signature line).
Maybe Clinton didn't damn near manage to get that ban and throw a monkey wrench into the market for a 10 year period.
Maybe the liberal media doesn't exploit terms like "assault weapon" (an undefinable term of which, technically there is no such thing), or the term "spray" when referring to semi autos. Then Joe Biden come along and says "get a shotgun". That one actually sprays.
And really there's so much more but those are just some of the wildly exaggerated musings of an NRA psychopath, right ??
Ya wanna talk about hyperbole ? Yeah, go for it Muse.
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