Here’s an example of the mentality of some members in this
group of gun nuts. A National Rifle
Assn. (NRA) member wears a shirt with the words, “If you know how many guns you
own…you don’t own enough,” printed on the back.
It is the typical thinking prevalent of a minority in this organization
of gun worshippers led by head fanatic, Wayne LaPierre. It is also the kind of thinking that has dumped
300 million firearms on American streets making it the most gun-loving culture
in all similar developed countries. It’s
an absurdity that is killing U.S. citizens.
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| Wacky Wayne LaPierre |
And in one of their most blatant lunacies, the NRA has come
up with an “NRA Enemies List,” consisting of 500
names that gun owners are supposed to hate.
People like George Clooney, C. Everett Koop and the American Medical
Assn. Others include AARP, American Bar
Assn., Children’s Defense Fund, U.S. League of Women Voters, the Episcopal and
Methodist Churches, the U.S. Catholic Conference and the YMCA. Any individual looking at this list without
concluding the NRA is a gang of wackos is simply not from this planet.
John Avlon on CNN compares
the list to Richard Nixon’s own list of adversaries, and laments that the NRA
has, with this kind of action, sealed itself inside a bubble that completely
divorces the group from American society.
It occurs to me that this is the only way Wayne LaPierre and his gang of
gun bubbas can survive with all the killings of innocent lives the organization
is responsible for. Avlon deems the
move, “…just the latest example of seriously bad judgment inside this once
proud organization. Judgment, of course,
led by wacky Wayne.
86-year-old Singer Tony Bennett recently said, “I still
haven’t gotten over Connecticut. I’d
like the assault weapons to go to war, not in our own country. And I’d like assault weapons eliminated. Thank you.”
Other celebrities on the NRA’s list include, Sandy Duncan, Marilu Henner,
Ed Asner, Hal Linden, Bruce Springsteen, Albert Brooks, Jack Nicholson, Jerry
Seinfeld and Oprah Winfrey. Not a shabby
bunch and I wonder how long it would take for a stream of public service TV
spots from these folks to put the NRA on the run?
YOUNG TURKS COMPARE NRA TO SERIAL KILLERS:
Avlon quotes lyrics by U2: "Choose your enemies
carefully, 'cause they will define you."
He adds, “The NRA, like too much of the conservative movement, has
chosen its enemies indiscriminately and seems defined in opposition to most of
modern America.” Then explain to me how
this pack of extremists not only survive but are able to dupe an American
public and control a clueless Congress.
To heap more coals on the fire, LaPierre came out with the recent TV ad
calling Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for using Secret Service to protect his
children.
Hallmark Greeting Cards is on the NRA’s list of
enemies. Since this company is already
being cited for lending their corporate support to gun control initiatives or
taking a position supporting gun control, I would like to recommend that they
come out with a special line of greeting cards to commemorate mass shooting
incidents including Columbine, VA Tech, Tucson, the Sikh Temple, Aurora and
Sandy Hook Elementary School. The idea
would be to share these memories with relatives and friends to keep gun control
a public issue.
If Hallmark were willing, a small portion of the proceeds could go in the campaign to fight gun violence. And I am aware the mass mayhem is only a small portion of the total problem of gun violence but it is the most visible in the public. Anything to get the total point across.
