Rude Pundit: Seriously, NRA, Go Blow a Grizzly Bear Unless You're Willing to Do Something Positive

[meegbear]

In case you can't read it, up there is a waving American flag with the words "We grieve and pray for those who lost their lives and for those hurt at the Washington Navy Yard." It's a grab from the homepage of the National Rifle Association's website. At this point in our ludicrous gun debate and our ongoing mass shootings crisis, it's a little like if the military said that they were sad about all the dead kids in Hiroshima and then still went ahead and nuked Nagasaki. Hey, NRA twats, your fuckin' expression of sympathy is bullshit if it's not backed up with any action.

Oh, sure, we're gonna hear the same tune over and over: "Washington, DC, has strict gun laws, but see what happened? Ergo, your laws don't work" is the most easily destroyed example. Ask anyone who says that if they want every single road into DC blocked so that all cars and pedestrians could be checked for guns from Virginia or, hell, most other places in the nation. All it proves is that we need national laws, not the patchwork of contradictions that we have now.

There's no need to recapitulate all the ways in which the NRA's monomaniacal focus on liberating guns from all that pesky oversight has helped to make this nation into a violent joke. We know them, of course, since the Newtown massacre happened such a short time ago. And we also know that Congress is comprised primarily of cowards, whores, whorish cowards, and cowardly whores, and they are not going to cross the NRA for fear of whatever pimpish reprisals the organization might bring about, even if it's on things that 90% of Americans want, like universal background checks.

Instead, let's put aside gun control for a moment. Let's for just a moment take the NRA at its word, post-Newtown, that it really believes that the nation needs to do more to help the mentally ill, as surely Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis was.

The NRA leadership and the organization itself took a strong stand on addressing mental health issues, saying, "The NRA will support any reasonable step to fix America’s broken mental health system without intruding on the constitutional rights of Americans." You can bet we'll hear the same sort of shit now. Of course, it depends how you interpret such an "intrusion." The NRA seems to like this Supreme Court, which has loosened gun laws, and it's also upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional.

So here's the batshit crazy idea: Ask the NRA if it's willing to go all in on supporting Obamacare. After all, the AFA expands mental health coverage, especially when it comes to treatment. Hell, if the mentally ill get treated, they can perhaps become qualified to be gun owners and not just NRA members.

Put the fuck up or shut the fuck up. If the NRA believes, as it said back in 1966, that "the time is at hand to seek means by which society can identify, treat and temporarily isolate such individuals," then the NRA should support the most likely way this can be accomplished. Hell, the NRA should have been lobbying states to accept funds to expand Medicaid so that goal is achieved.

And the added bonus is that more people will have insurance when they shoot themselves or get shot by others. Win-win, you know.

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[riqster]

1. A Rec for Rude

[AlinPA]

2. Really unbelievable that anyone would believe the NRA's "message" here. There are smiles all

around in the HQ. More guns will be sold.

[badtoworse]

3. The NRA only has about 4 or 5 million members

That's less than 2% of the population. I would say that a substantial number of non-members share their views or RKBA wouldn't be such a losing issue for Democrats.

[Clyde Tenson]

13. The NRA is to Guns like the Chamber of Commerce is to Business

They are both funnels for lobbying cash to purchase corrupt legislation favoring their masters - the vampire squids that are sucking the lifeblood of this nation. Guns and Business Development have nothing to with these guys. If you think the NRA only gets money from the gun industry, I gotta bridge to sell...

[badtoworse]

16. Maybe, but they don't have the numbers to decide an election; voters at large do that.

NRA or no NRA, gun control is a losing issue in large parts of the country. Legislators don't fear the NRA; they fear another army of pissed off voters like the one that threw out many legislators who voted for the 1994 AWB.

It's a lot easier to blame the NRA than to accept that many people are strongly opposed to more gun control.

[sarisataka]

4. I'll rec nearly anything

that includes go blow a grizzly bear in the title.

[Aerows]

6. LMAO

Okay, that was hilarious!

[meegbear]

7. SAY!!!!!

[Half-Century Man]

10. It might confuse the bear

I don't think aggressive carnivores regularly trust each other to perform oral sex. SO..
...Ya'all be careful, hear?

[nolabear]

12. Uncle Grizzly agrees.

[Aerows]

5. K & R n/t

[Erose999]

8. The NRA can suck a camel's ass. They have more American blood on their hands than Al Qaeda.

[Paladin]

9. "My rights trump your deaths."

That's a statement from a speech that's getting wide circulation and overwhelmingly favorable response in the militant pro-gun community, these days. The NRA, its membership and those who support it, do not give one single, solitary, flying fuck about lives lost on account of violence involving firearms usage. This feeble show of sympathy for yesterday's deaths and injuries by the organization should be dismissed as the pathetic CYA attempt that it is.

Thanks to Rude Pundit for yet another bulls-eye response.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. conservative prayers. as useful as steel wool toilet paper. only smellier.

They're always publicly announcing their "heartfelt" prayers, so they can do exactly what they always do (shit on everyone except their own team) AND feel morally superior.

fucking meaningless jingoistic posturing.

Absolutely right yet again, Rude Pundit.

[malaise]

14. Well said Rudie

Rec

[Stainless]

15. Fuck the NRA

and fuck Wayne LaPierre. EOM