NRA goes off half-cocked
I guess the NRA is a bit panicked about the recent election, as witnessed by this graphically beautiful piece of propaganda which would make Goebbels blush with its over-the-top portrayals of hairy-legged animal rights terrorists (along with their dynamite-carrying trained owls) and malign Hispanic gang-bangers exercising their own right to bears arms as they pour across our cruelly-ravaged borders and only Brave White Father can protect his (as nuclear as Chernobyl) family from the ravages of...killer tsunamis?
Boing-Boing has the best wrap up of this entire pathetic episode.
I say this as someone who supports private gun ownership, self-defense, and believes the 2nd amendment pretty much means exactly what it says it means: The NRA is fucking nuts!
Does any reasonable person really think that Hillary Clinton is going to secretly lead a cabal of black government helicopters to take away peoples guns? Does anyone even think gun control still exists as a viable political meme in 2006? To me, "gun control" seems to be an anachronism as a politcial issue as out-of-step as mentioning "the Great Society" -- concealed carry is the law across the entire land, study after study show that widepsread gun ownership by law-abiding citizens doesn't raise crimes rates, and most of the new Democratic majority - especially those from the Western States - got elected on pro-gun platforms. No "gun control" legislation will go anywhere in Congress, and it won't even be brought up as an issue except by a few urban members of Congress grandstanding for their constituencies. There's a better chance that Iraq will have a modern, properous and peaceful democracy then any anti-gun legislation will cross Bush's desk.
Still, the NRA's pet artist is damn talented. I can't wait to see his illustrated version of Left Behind.
I guess the NRA is a bit panicked about the recent election, as witnessed by this graphically beautiful piece of propaganda which would make Goebbels blush with its over-the-top portrayals of hairy-legged animal rights terrorists (along with their dynamite-carrying trained owls) and malign Hispanic gang-bangers exercising their own right to bears arms as they pour across our cruelly-ravaged borders and only Brave White Father can protect his (as nuclear as Chernobyl) family from the ravages of...killer tsunamis?
Boing-Boing has the best wrap up of this entire pathetic episode.
I say this as someone who supports private gun ownership, self-defense, and believes the 2nd amendment pretty much means exactly what it says it means: The NRA is fucking nuts!
Does any reasonable person really think that Hillary Clinton is going to secretly lead a cabal of black government helicopters to take away peoples guns? Does anyone even think gun control still exists as a viable political meme in 2006? To me, "gun control" seems to be an anachronism as a politcial issue as out-of-step as mentioning "the Great Society" -- concealed carry is the law across the entire land, study after study show that widepsread gun ownership by law-abiding citizens doesn't raise crimes rates, and most of the new Democratic majority - especially those from the Western States - got elected on pro-gun platforms. No "gun control" legislation will go anywhere in Congress, and it won't even be brought up as an issue except by a few urban members of Congress grandstanding for their constituencies. There's a better chance that Iraq will have a modern, properous and peaceful democracy then any anti-gun legislation will cross Bush's desk.
Still, the NRA's pet artist is damn talented. I can't wait to see his illustrated version of Left Behind.
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