Sweet Jeezus......NRA goes off the deep end.....again.

[marmar]

NRA News commentator Dom Raso compares gun control to racist Jim Crow laws


NRA News commentator Dom Raso recently compared laws to regulate guns to laws that enforced segregation and outlawed interracial marriage.

Raso, a U.S. Navy SEAL veteran, said in a video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday that gun control laws were like Jim Crow laws because owning and carrying a firearm was a civil right.

“Just because someone makes a law that says you can’t buy, own, or carry a weapon doesn’t make it lawful,” he remarked. “Jim Crow laws were also passed and enforced and those were equally unconstitutional.”

“Too many Americans don’t think of the Second Amendment as a civil rights issue,” Raso continued. “And that’s dangerous, because all of those rights together define freedom. If you’re free to speak but not worship, you’re not free. If you’re free to vote, but not to speak, you aren’t not free either.

“And if you’re free to do everything but defend yourself with a firearm, you’re not going to feel very free when you’re holding the phone waiting on the cops to save you from a home invader.” ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/08/nra-news-commentator-dom-raso-compares-gun-control-to-racist-jim-crow-laws/

[Hoyt]

1. Gun fanciers have long compared their poor pitiful plight to the Civil Rights movement.

Whataya expect from a bunch of right wingers who love gunz, and all the crud that goes with them, more than society? Disgusting.

[hack89]

2. Of course the 2A allows regulation

This guy needs to read Heller.

[BrotherIvan]

3. Because nothing says freedom more than your own personal arsenal

Less guns on the street means only criminals will have them because they know where they grow on the special gun tree. And being able to buy infinite rounds of ammo makes the baby Jeezus laugh.

[billh58]

4. K&R

for exposure of the spokesperson for Gun Nuts R Us.

[Initech]

5. Because you know, an armed society is... polite?

[onethatcares]

6. have they chimed in

about the Hobby Lobby decision yet?

Wake me when they do and when they compare a womens' right to their own body a civil right.

[etherealtruth]

7. Lunatics

Comparing ownership of an inanimate object (implement of destruction) to human rights ... abject stupidity