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farminator3000

(2,117 posts)
13. my strategy is to head you off @ the pass
Thu Jan 31, 2013, 10:57 AM
Jan 2013

before you work up momentum! (you mean the GOPers PAID BY the NRA)

http://gunvictimsaction.org/blog/2013/01/the-nra-hates-gun-regulations-except-when-it-loves-gun-regulation/

The NRA hates the government’s jackbooted agents and loves to whip up its wild-eyed prepper population. Yet the NRA has quietly enacted a lot of regulations of its own which it relies on the same government jackbooted agents to enforce. Who can say hypocrite?

The NRA has embargoed government agencies from analyzing gun data. The true toll of gun violence on society is an unknown–and the NRA likes it that way....

The gun lobby’s Tiahrt Amendment restricts law enforcement officials from fully accessing and using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) gun trace data. Clerks at the ATF literally write records by hand, circa 1950, because the gun lobby says an automated database would “pose a threat to the Second Amendment.” ...

The NRA has blocked technology to produce “smart guns” that only operate in their owners’ possession, like smart cars.

The NRA actually got a program passed to help people whose gun purchasing rights were revoked petition for them to be restored. “Felons Finding It Easy to Regain Gun Rights,” said a chilling New York Times report in November of 2011.

Even though the NRA got laws passed that make it legal for employees to bring their guns to work and leave them in the company parking lot, that is not enough.

In similar micro-managing behavioral legislation, the NRA is trying to make it illegal for doctors to ask patients if they have guns in the home. It’s none of their business, says the NRA though it will probably permit doctors to stitch together victims of home accidents from the guns they can’t ask about.


Thanks to NRA lobbying, gun manufacturers cannot be sued. Unlike Big Tobacco or Big Pharma,



Who gives a shit? theKed Jan 2013 #1
Look - It Was A Legitmate Request On My Part - As I Just Wanted To React To LaPierre's Contention... global1 Jan 2013 #17
I think theKed Jan 2013 #18
I don't pretend to know the exact number of laws dsc Jan 2013 #22
If you count up every US code title that refers to guns Recursion Jan 2013 #2
wayne's BS about cops not doing their jobs=nixon saying 'not my fault, locks were too weak' farminator3000 Jan 2013 #6
So quadruple the ATF's budget and staff Recursion Jan 2013 #7
my strategy is to head you off @ the pass farminator3000 Jan 2013 #13
Gun manufacturers can be sued hack89 Jan 2013 #24
oh, they can be sued for something which never happens, poor gun makers farminator3000 Jan 2013 #31
Why should a company be sued for the criminal act of a felon? hack89 Jan 2013 #32
because CORPORATIONS (not people...) are responsible for their products farminator3000 Feb 2013 #33
You just proved my point. hack89 Feb 2013 #34
if you mean proved to be false, sure..let's start at the beginning- reality=past+present+future, ok? farminator3000 Feb 2013 #35
Of course gun control advocates are whining. hack89 Feb 2013 #36
you're the one ignoring the DEAN of UC IRVINE LAW SCHOOL, bro. farminator3000 Feb 2013 #37
And, Dammit To Hell, Give The ATF A Director. Paladin Jan 2013 #14
VP Joe Bidden said at a press conference ..... oldhippie Jan 2013 #8
Which is why we need 4 (or 10) times as many ATF agents as we have Recursion Jan 2013 #9
Not sure it needs to be only ATF agents ....... oldhippie Jan 2013 #12
Here you go for CT & Fed Jarhead1775 Jan 2013 #3
Everytime a gun nut asshole mentions laws that "aren't being enforced" ask them why alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #4
Thank you! n/t OneGrassRoot Jan 2013 #5
The ATF needs it's budget and staff quadrupled. nt hack89 Jan 2013 #10
This is a scary commentary on leadership. Remmah2 Jan 2013 #16
It goes further back. The laws were written to be difficult to enforce. DevonRex Jan 2013 #25
Message deleted by the DU Administrators SailorMike Jan 2013 #28
Did anyone on the panel call him on that a la Jon Stewart? Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2013 #11
Try Googling NRA & gun laws? Remmah2 Jan 2013 #15
He is such a flaming piece of shit. smirkymonkey Jan 2013 #19
I haven't found anything definitive that there are 9000 gun laws. LiberalFighter Jan 2013 #20
They are probabally talking about every city, state, and federal law in the country AgingAmerican Jan 2013 #21
As the resource I used pointed out LiberalFighter Jan 2013 #27
Send LaPierre and the NRA a letter requesting a a list of those 9000 laws.... OldDem2012 Jan 2013 #23
First, look up the Tiahart Amendments Agnosticsherbet Jan 2013 #26
we can use this....NRA says gun violence is because police are not doing their jobs Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #29
And the NRA opposed every single one of those Zoeisright Jan 2013 #30
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