Out Of Touch NRA (And The Pols Who Help Them)

4:44 pm EST April 18th, 2007 | Politics | 6 Comments

Debunking the Gun Lobby: “The study shows a striking disconnect between the policies promoted by the NRA (and passed by politicians) and the views of the public.”

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6 Responses to “Out Of Touch NRA (And The Pols Who Help Them)”

  1. VRWC drone says:
    April 18, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    Saying that overwhelming numbers of Americans are against people bringing their guns into “restaurants, college campuses, sports stadiums, bars, hospitals, or government buildings” is not the same as saying an overwhelming number of Americans are against handgun ownership.

    Is this supposed to be the “striking disconnect between the policies promoted by the NRA (and passed by politicians) and the views of the public”?

    To quote Bart Simpson, “Think harder, Homer”.

  2. Rheinhard says:
    April 18, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    VRWC – but, as all the manly men in the wingnutosphere (like the Derb and Mark Steyn, who would like so totally have kicked the ass of the VT gunman if they’d been there with stray bullets bouncing off their manly chests, unlike those pussified college students who all tried to run away from the hails of bullets like little sissy babies) argue, I thought the solution to the lone crazed gunman problem was PRECISELY for each and every person above the age of 8 (maybe 5, a .22 isn’t that heavy) to bring their guns with them into “restaurants, college campuses, sports stadiums, bars, hospitals, or government buildings”?

    If everyone isn’t armed at all times in all places, how can we defend ourselves when the lone nut shows up unexpectedly?

  3. fd10801 says:
    April 18, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    If everybody agreed with the NRA, they wouldn’t need to lobby, now, would they?

    Sheesh.

  4. fd10801 says:
    April 18, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Thank you, Rheinhard, for reminding us that we shouldn’t be going around arm just in case of the rare possibility that a mad gunman may go around shooting up the joint.

    But we should institute gun controls, because there are entirely too many of these incidents.

    Uh – huh.

  5. Anonymous says:
    April 18, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    Its like gun lobbiest are more insane about gun laws than pro/anti abortion lobbyists. Republicans may not like it, but the disconnect is that most Americans don’t buy ludicrous arguments of arming every man, women, and child.

  6. Gravypan says:
    April 18, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    Self defense is a ludicrous principle.

    All victims should submit to the will of their attackers.

    So, am I thinking like a liberal yet?