SFGate: Liberals find comfort level in 'NPR of gun clubs'

[friendly_iconoclast]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Liberals-find-comfort-level-in-NPR-of-gun-clubs-5107330.php#photo-5669466

Liberals find comfort level in 'NPR of gun clubs'

Carla Marinucci
Updated 10:05 am, Thursday, January 2, 2014

Marlene Hoeber is feisty, tattooed, transgender, a self-described feminist, a queer activist - and a crack shot with her favorite "toys," guns of just about every kind.

One thing she's not - and proud of it - is a member of the National Rifle Association.

"We make ourselves a special place where we don't have to hear about the 'Kenyan Muslim socialist' in the White House," said Hoeber, a biotech equipment mechanic who says she's politically "somewhere around Emma Goldman," the turn-of-the-20th century anarchist.

Instead, Hoeber - whose array of firearms includes an M1 carbine rifle from World War II and a custom-made .44-caliber pistol - and other left-leaning gun lovers have their own organization: the Liberal Gun Club.

(Caption: "East Bay chapter of the Liberal Gun Owners Association, president Marlene Hoeber and board member Eric Wooten watches as she holds a M1 Carbine rifle at her Oakland, Ca. home, on Saturday Nov. 16, 2013.&quot


What's that sound you're hearing? Just certain long-lived planted axioms getting crushed...

[NYC_SKP]

1. Prepare for more progressive/liberal gun owners.

Not that we weren't always here, but as the Republican's eat themselves and as ObamaCare proves more and more successful, I think our numbers will grow.

One of these days the minority who think they speak for Democratic and Progressive values in their hatred of guns will be proven irrelevant.

K/R

[Straw Man]

2. I urge all liberal gun owners to join the NRA.

There is no political litmus test for membership in the NRA. The organization as a whole reflects the political views of its membership. The more lefties that join, the less rightie rhetoric one can expect to hear. It is a rights organization, after all.

Ms. Hoeber may be interested to know that her M1 Carbine is soon to become illegal in NY State. Too military, doncha know. She'd have to leave it behind if she ever moved here. Either that or grind off the bayonet lug, but some people would consider that to be defacing a historical artifact, and would rather sell it intact.

[Duckhunter935]

3. those bayonet lugs

are very dangerous don't you know, and it hold 8 rounds too, the horror.