Surprise, Surprise: The NRA Deletes Ridiculous Guns-for-the-Blind Video

[doxydad]

Without any fanfare or explanation, the National Rifle Association (America's gun manufacturer's lobbyist for the gun humpers) removed from YouTube a video in which commentator Dom Raso makes a case for allowing blind people to carry firearms in public.

The video, posted earlier this week, was another in a long series of questionable pro-gun arguments ranging from attacks on the use of word “gunman” and the phrase “mass shootings”; to arguments in support of government subsidies for free ammunition and gun classes in grade school; to this most recent video.

surroundings.”

The New York Daily News reported:

Steven Rothstein, the former head of the prominent school Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Ma., called the video an effort to exploit the disabled.

“This video is not only disturbing but also misleading and they are using individuals who are visually impaired in a cynical attempt to further their extremist position on gun control,” Rothstein said, according to the Boston Globe.

To repeat: this isn’t a video from The Onion, even though it absolutely could be.
You can watch this ludicrous video HERE:
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/08/surprise-surprise-nra-deletes-ridiculous-guns-blind-video/

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1. How does The Onion stay in business these days with such stiff competition?

[IronGate]

2. Now it's gun humpers?

And you wonder why you're treated with such derision by gun owners?

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3. Do you see all gun owners as gun humpers? (nt)

[blueridge3210]

4. Based on posting history

the OP certainly appears to think of all gun owners as "gun humpers".

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6. Do I? No,

but judging by the many comments made on DU, many, many here, including the OP, do.

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15. Maybe "gun-humpers" just means "gun-humpers" and...

..."gun-owners" just means "gun-owners".

[IronGate]

23. Not to a lot of members on DU,

they're one and the same.

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25. Those people can be detected by watching for who...

...sees the phrases like "gun humper" or "gun fetishist" or "gun nut" and reflexively asks whether or not it includes all gun owners, under the assumption that it does.

It's a way for gun nuts to artificially inflate their own numbers by attempting to classify all gun owners as being within their group.

[NYC_SKP]

5. The RKBA is a Civil Right. I wish you'd stop trying to take mine away.

Not that I'm worried about your ever being successful about it.

This is for you:

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16. Is that the very same NRA guy now trying to compare...

...guns with civil rights?

Are we actually supposed to take any of this NRA nonsense seriously?

[NYC_SKP]

17. Yes. The cool thing is that you don't have to take it seriously, we'll do that for you.

And I don't refer to NRA stuff in particular, I refer to those valid points that are inevitably included among them.

Had you been a black woman in the sixties, you didn't need to take civil rights for all races seriously, there were others here like MLK and the Freedom Rider looking after your interests.

Again, I'm not a member of the NRA, but I'm a solid supporter of the RKBA as an individual and as a collective right.

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18. Comparing real civil rights with guns?

Had you been a black woman in the sixties, you didn't need to take civil rights for all races seriously, there were others here like MLK and the Freedom Rider looking after your interests.

Seriously???

Do you not realize just how offensive that is?

[NYC_SKP]

19. Indeed. This picture was taken inside the California State Capitol building in Sacramento.

You bet your ass that it's a real civil right.

Are you trying to egg me on to make a reply that will be hidden?

If so, it won't work.

You are entitled to be offended by the comparison, as much as I am to be offended that you don't care to accept that progressives can differ on the matter of the Second Amendment.

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20. Sorry, but guns are not a civil right.

And the comparisons of guns with real civil rights is offensive.

[NYC_SKP]

21. The right to be collectively engaged in civil matters, be safe in one's home, and...

...participate in governance, including under extraordinary circumstances like natural disasters, is obviously a right.

A civil right.

Grab a dictionary.

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments and private organizations

[IronGate]

22. Sorry, but the 2A is a civil right,

rather you want to admit it or not.

[IronGate]

24. What's offensive is your denying that the 2A is a civil right. nt.

[NYC_SKP]

26. I don't even get the "offensive" part.

Is that the last resort after your arguments fail?

[clffrdjk]

7. What exactly is ludicrous about the video?

[virginia mountainman]

8. Still cannot hold a candle too...

Heatseeking, deer cooking bullets

Shoulder Thing That Goes Up,

Once the magazines are empty, they can't be reused..

I could go on...

[beevul]

9. And more locally...

"And a shot gun at least has a legitimate use as a hunting rifle."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=150816

[ManiacJoe]

11. Ignoring the shotgun/rifle mixup,

shotguns are used for deer hunting in many places, usually East Coast with the smaller whitetail deer.

[beevul]

12. True enough.

Of course, that usually includes the use of a slug barrel.

[ManiacJoe]

13. Or buckshot.

[beevul]

14. True, although it wouldn't likely be "rifled" with buckshot. N/T

[Duckhunter935]

10. I like this one myself

[NYC_SKP]

27. We actually elected this moron.

I hope his ignorance is limited to guns, but am not sure.

[virginia mountainman]

28. He is so ignorant on the subject at hand..

He don't even realize how little he actually knows...