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I'm seriously disliking the NRA of late
Oct. 23rd, 2012 09:08 am"Freedom... Now, imagine our country without it... Defeat Obama."
—NRA ad
Yes, we Americans have a freedom to possess and bear firearms. But the NRA buying ads like this? Obama has loosened gun laws: you can now carry a gun in a national park and on Amtrak trains. Obama hasn't announced any plans for any gun control that I've heard of. Romney? While governor he signed a ban, I don't know if it was on automatic weapons or "assault" (semi-automatic) weapons. He became a life-long member of the NRA in 2006 when he ran for governor, and was caught in a lie when asked about the guns he owns: what he described was a gun owned by one of his sons.
And the NRA endorsed Romney over Obama.
I don't have a problem with people owning and carrying guns, I've owned many in my time and I had a concealed carry permit for 10 yeas in Arizona. But the NRA and the Republicans have diluted gun laws to such a degree that it is beyond stupid. Florida was sort of the starting point, some 10-15 years ago, when they passed a concealed carry law that was basically filling out a form and you get your permit. Arizona's law at that time required fingerprinting, a criminal background check, a two-day class, and you had to shoot a gun and prove that you had a good chance of hitting what you were aiming at. I thought that was perfectly reasonable requirements to carry a concealed weapon. Now Arizona's law is closer to Florida's. New Mexico's CCW law still seems to be somewhat sane, at least you are still required to take classroom time and demonstrate proficiency, but they also require proficiency by caliber: if you qualify with a .38 special, that's the largest caliber that you can carry. So you're better off borrowing and qualifying with a .45 ACP.
We need reasonable gun laws in this country. It's ridiculous that a mental patient could get ahold of guns and so much ammunition and perpetrate things like the Aurora theater shooting. He should have been flagged for no-sales, and most states used to have prohibitions against sales to people flagged with mental illness, I guess those laws either either no longer exist or are no longer enforced, or maybe they have no way of checking them across state lines.
But because of the NRA's constant shouting of "The gubmint's gonna take away our guns and we need 'em to fight Commies!", things like this can continue to happen.
And things like the Batman shooting will continue to occasionally happen.
—NRA ad
Yes, we Americans have a freedom to possess and bear firearms. But the NRA buying ads like this? Obama has loosened gun laws: you can now carry a gun in a national park and on Amtrak trains. Obama hasn't announced any plans for any gun control that I've heard of. Romney? While governor he signed a ban, I don't know if it was on automatic weapons or "assault" (semi-automatic) weapons. He became a life-long member of the NRA in 2006 when he ran for governor, and was caught in a lie when asked about the guns he owns: what he described was a gun owned by one of his sons.
And the NRA endorsed Romney over Obama.
I don't have a problem with people owning and carrying guns, I've owned many in my time and I had a concealed carry permit for 10 yeas in Arizona. But the NRA and the Republicans have diluted gun laws to such a degree that it is beyond stupid. Florida was sort of the starting point, some 10-15 years ago, when they passed a concealed carry law that was basically filling out a form and you get your permit. Arizona's law at that time required fingerprinting, a criminal background check, a two-day class, and you had to shoot a gun and prove that you had a good chance of hitting what you were aiming at. I thought that was perfectly reasonable requirements to carry a concealed weapon. Now Arizona's law is closer to Florida's. New Mexico's CCW law still seems to be somewhat sane, at least you are still required to take classroom time and demonstrate proficiency, but they also require proficiency by caliber: if you qualify with a .38 special, that's the largest caliber that you can carry. So you're better off borrowing and qualifying with a .45 ACP.
We need reasonable gun laws in this country. It's ridiculous that a mental patient could get ahold of guns and so much ammunition and perpetrate things like the Aurora theater shooting. He should have been flagged for no-sales, and most states used to have prohibitions against sales to people flagged with mental illness, I guess those laws either either no longer exist or are no longer enforced, or maybe they have no way of checking them across state lines.
But because of the NRA's constant shouting of "The gubmint's gonna take away our guns and we need 'em to fight Commies!", things like this can continue to happen.
And things like the Batman shooting will continue to occasionally happen.
