NRA catapults the propaganda

[marmar]

from TPM Muckraker:



In an email sent to National Rifle Association members on Thursday, the head of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) warned that politicians in Washington D.C. were “closing in fast on your Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”

“President Barack Obama and anti-gun politicians are on an all-out crusade to pass new laws that would: BAN tens of millions of rifles, shotguns and handguns…make it more difficult, expensive, and in some cases, ILLEGAL for you to purchase ammunition…and even FORCE you to register your firearms with the federal government,” NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox wrote in the email. “Some are even talking about a mandatory gun confiscation and ‘buyback’ program - where you would be forced to hand over your guns in exchange for a government check!”

The NRA-ILA is the lobbying arm of the NRA. Cox’s email came a day after President Obama announced 23 executive actions he plans to take to reduce gun violence in response to the massacre in Newtown, Conn. last month. Neither confiscation nor buybacks were on Obama’s list, nor were they part of the sweeping legislative proposals the President made on the subject.

“The fact is, despite their statements, the main goal of the gun banners in Congress is not to make schools safer, but to ban your guns and abolish every last sacred right you have under the Second Amendment..until they reduce your freedom to ashes,” Cox wrote. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/nra_confiscation_email.php

[Hoyt]

1. Like listening to Charleston Heston cry like a baby. I feel no pity for the right wing terrorists.

[Pholus]

2. Cue the hyperventilating: "abolish every last sacred right"

The only response would be to let the guy rant and rave and at the end give him a big fat deadpan "Really."

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. ...and the dues-paying saps will lap it up like ice cream.

Hard to believe people can be so stupid.