Gun Rights Advocate Says People Should Use Guns To Prevent Obama From Becoming A Tyrant

[KamaAina]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/17/right-winger-thinks-people-guns-tyrant-obama-takes.html

In an appearance on Newsmax TV’s America’s Forum Monday, gun rights activist and white supremacist sympathizer Larry Pratt said that the reason President Obama is for gun control is “he clearly doesn’t like the fact that the American people can own guns because we might just want to use them to keep people like him from becoming tyrants.” The executive director of the right-wing gun advocacy group Gun Owners for America was discussing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. The ATT has long been delayed in the Senate, mostly because Pratt and other conspiracy theorists have convinced a number of conservative lawmakers that passage of the treaty will lead to gun registries and the UN confiscating guns.

Pratt spoke with host JD Hayworth (a former Republican Congressman) and Rick Ungar of Forbes during the segment. When Ungar, who is typically serves as the token liberal on conservative media programs, pushed back on Pratt’s claims that President Obama is coming for everyone’s guns and that Obama is going to use executive orders to push through the ATT, Pratt then retorted with his belief that Obama is worried that people feel he is a tyrant and will use their guns to stop him....

While mainstream media outlets have turned to Pratt to give his opinion over the years whenever the topic of gun control comes up, they rarely if ever actually highlight just how radical Pratt’s views are. In a profile piece on Pratt this past July, Rolling Stone writer Alexander Zaitchik revealed that Pratt believes that American gun owners shouldn’t be concerned with owning guns for hunting or self-defense. In Pratt’s mind, guns are needed to both scare elected officials and to carry out God’s will as prophesized....

While Pratt is certifiable, he definitely has pull within conservative circles. Republican lawmakers, and even some Democrats, don’t dare cross him or his organization lest they be called weak on guns. Pratt was especially influential in getting a Senate bill on background checks killed in early 2013. Even though the Manchin-Toomey bill was extremely gun friendly and far more conservative than other proposed Senate measures, the Gun Owners of America was able to provide the right amount of loud resistance and scare enough senators that the bill was unable to move forward. While the NRA was also a major factor in the bill’s failure, the New York Times claimed Pratt and his group may have been the prime movers. (Pratt took credit for killing the bill during the Newsmax interview.)

[louis-t]

1. How many more?

How many more have to die? What level of shaming will it take?

[Scuba]

2. Sounds like a threat.

[GGJohn]

4. Sounds like he needs a visit from the men in black.

[aikoaiko]

3. Larry Pratt and GOA are 2.5 st dev to the right of LaPierre and the NRA

He's that wackadoo.

[frylock]

5. i'm confused. i thought Obama already was a tyrannical dictator?

is this not the case? he only has the potential to become a tyrant?

[noiretextatique]

7. maybe he left his crazy racist gun nut talking points memo

at home. i believe Obama is already a tyrannical dictator

[noiretextatique]

6. poor, scared racists

they are sooo afraid that they will get exactly what they've dished out for centuries

[etherealtruth]

8. The SPLC has a "nice" profile on Pratt and his hate group the GOA

Larry Pratt stands at the intersection of guns and Jesus, lobbying for absolutely unrestricted distribution of firearms while advocating a theocratic society based upon Old Testament civil and religious laws. A pivotal figure in the rise of right-wing militia, or “Patriot,” groups, he spoke at the notorious 1992 “Gathering of Christian Men” in Estes Park, Colo., where 160 neo-Nazis, Klan members, anti-Semitic Christian Identity adherents and others arguably laid the groundwork for the militia movement that would explode in 1994. He believes that white Christians must arm themselves for self-protection in the inevitable social implosions and riots that are soon to come.

Pratt's worldview is heavily influenced by the tenets of Christian Reconstructionism, which is a particularly hard-line version of the larger movement of “dominionist” Christians, who seek to impose Biblical law on civil society. (Prominent dominionists include U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tex.), and retired Gen. Jerry Boykin, executive vice president of the Family Research Council.) Reconstructionism is based on the writings of the late Rousas John Rushdoony, a kind of Calvinist on steroids who sought to impose Old Testament law on the United States, meaning, among other things, the death penalty for adulterers, abortionists, gays, blasphemers, idolaters, witches, and others.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/Larry-Pratt

[Blue_Tires]

9. Ah, yes...

The famous "I went on a shooting spree at the rec center just to prove to everyone that Big Gummitt can't take our guns!" -logic...

[helpmetohelpyou]

10. oh my that is crazy

[KamaAina]

11. It is,

and welcome to DU!