Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumSurprise, Surprise: The NRA Deletes Ridiculous Guns-for-the-Blind Video
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.
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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 isnt 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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(6,498 posts)IronGate
(2,186 posts)And you wonder why you're treated with such derision by gun owners?
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(6,498 posts)blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)the OP certainly appears to think of all gun owners as "gun humpers".
IronGate
(2,186 posts)but judging by the many comments made on DU, many, many here, including the OP, do.
stone space
(6,498 posts)..."gun-owners" just means "gun-owners".
IronGate
(2,186 posts)they're one and the same.
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(6,498 posts)...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
(68,644 posts)Not that I'm worried about your ever being successful about it.
This is for you:
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(6,498 posts)...guns with civil rights?
Are we actually supposed to take any of this NRA nonsense seriously?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)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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(6,498 posts)Seriously???
Do you not realize just how offensive that is?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)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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stone space
(6,498 posts)And the comparisons of guns with real civil rights is offensive.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...participate in governance, including under extraordinary circumstances like natural disasters, is obviously a right.
A civil right.
Grab a dictionary.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)rather you want to admit it or not.
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(2,186 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Is that the last resort after your arguments fail?
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(905 posts)virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)Heatseeking, deer cooking bullets
Shoulder Thing That Goes Up,
Once the magazines are empty, they can't be reused..
I could go on...
beevul
(12,194 posts)"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
(10,136 posts)shotguns are used for deer hunting in many places, usually East Coast with the smaller whitetail deer.
beevul
(12,194 posts)Of course, that usually includes the use of a slug barrel.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I hope his ignorance is limited to guns, but am not sure.
virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)He don't even realize how little he actually knows...