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Now this is the media I'm accustomed to!
From yesterday's New York Times:
"the so-called wisdom"
"timidity about standing up to the National Rifle Association"
"needed measures to curb gun violence."
"well-founded enthusiasm for reviving the assault weapons ban"
"this season of successive mass shootings"
"the nation’s lax regulation of guns"
"N.R.A. distortions"
etc., etc.
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Samuels is writing for a very select audience - a small number of Democrat Congress-critters who are being lobbied HARD by the Brady Campaign, etc. to endorse their agenda. She is trying to "support" Brady's position that, while the NRA is to blame for all the ills of the universe, they're really no more powerful that the little guy behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. And of course, there's no need to worry about the sheeple voters.
But that's typical for her. Samuels has been on the NYT ed board for a long time, using her bully pulpit for all sorts of advocacy on issues of interest to her. And as for what's of interest to her - well, let's just say she was also the Executive Director of the New York State affiliate of the ACLU. 'Nuff said?
If we could just get rid of that damned First Amendment it solve so many problems. :))
I'm sure the NYTimes will run an opposing opinion from one of the federal elected officials on the NRA board just to keep things fair and balanced...
Don't worry, HR 2159 will fix everything.
Tiochfaidh ar la!
Just goes to show you: Never let a cliche or canard go to waste.
Strange how "so-called wisdom" becomes real wisdom when backed up with facts and research.
"Gun violence." To paraphrase Archie Bunker, "Would it make feel any better if dey was bein' throwed outa windows?"
And the "well-founded enthusiasm for reviving the assault weapons ban." Yuh, right! That must be what's fueling the run on that market.
"Lax regulations" vs. lax enforcement: needs no comment.
In the words of the immortal Ronald Reagan, "It's not that liberals are wrong, it's that they believe in so many things that just aren't so."
Just goes to show you: Never let a cliche or canard go to waste.
Strange how "so-called wisdom" becomes real wisdom when backed up with facts and research.
"Gun violence." To paraphrase Archie Bunker, "Would it make you feel any better if dey was bein' throwed outa windows?"
And the "well-founded enthusiasm for reviving the assault weapons ban." Yuh, right! That must be what's fueling the run on that market.
"Lax regulations" vs. lax enforcement: needs no comment.
In the words of the immortal Ronald Reagan, "It's not that liberals are wrong, it's that they believe in so many things that just aren't so."
The NRA is not a thing. It is a group of like minded individuals who feely associate and speak to those who represent us in our rebulic form of goverment. We mostly speak about our constitution and the principles that it enumerates. I hate the MSM trying to make the NRA something is is not.
The nice hidden message in the NYT propaganda piece is that a significant minority of Democrats in Congress today believe that they lost in '94 because of the semi-auto ban. Whether or not it is true (it is), as long as enough of them repeat it to themselves away from the public eye, it will serve to greatly protect the 2A over the next two years.
If that is the best we can get when a D majority rules Congress, I'll take it. They don't have to like the 2A, as long as they fear it and leave it alone.
BTW, Pres. Clinton gave the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper an interview in early Jan. '95 about this, so it wasn't something out of his '04 book. On my bulletin board for two years was the Plain Dealer headline, "Clinton Blames Loss On NRA." He gave us credit for swinging 20 House seats, two more than necessary to take control. It was more like 50, but he wanted to make the public point that it was our fault 40 years of Democratic misrule came to an end.
Never was I more proud of my association than those two years of the 104th Congress, where we ruled American politics--and our enemies knew it.
Of course, you will notice that they aren't allowing comments so that people can respond to this hag.