1. We will stop referring to ourselves as a “civil rights” organization that defends “human rights.” It is a sacrilege to people actually killed or harmed by civil and human rights abuses.
- - - - - If they did that, it was the right thing to do. Self-defense is most assuredly a Civil Right. Even in California's constitution.
2. We will stop pointing at Chicago and saying gun laws don’t work. We will admit the majority of Chicago crime guns are trafficked from states and counties with loose laws.
- - - - - Have they been doing that? I hadn't noticed. Oh well.
3. We will stop saying “the government is going to take your guns” to block federal laws. The confiscation we announced 7 years ago never happened.
- - - - - Good thing it never happened. Will it ever happen, can it ever happen? Let's make sure it doesn't.
4. We will stop blaming “mental health” problems for U.S. gun violence. We admit every country in the world has mental health problems but they don’t have Newtowns and Virginia Techs.
- - - - - Anyone who proposes that "mental health" and gun violence aren't related issues needs a check up.
5. We admit fighting universal background checks arms criminals and that “armed criminals” sells more guns to “good guys.” Ka-ching.
- - - - - I don't quite get this one, but then I'm not a member of the NRA.
6. We acknowledge that “outlaws” don’t have guns in the 28 EU countries, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other countries with strict gun regulations. We also admit, grudgingly, they are not “tyrannies.”
- - - - - Actually, just look at Australia for outlaws having guns. Next?
7. We will stop our insulting comparison of guns to knives, hammers, cars and swimming pools–none of which kill when used as directed. On the same day as the Sandy Hook massacre, 20 Chinese school children were attacked with a knife and none died.
- - - - - I haven't actually seen this but if the author wants to cite statistics in other countries, let them explain suicide rates in Japan.
8. We accept responsibility for the armed vigilante movement popularized by George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. We admit “carry” laws are the biggest revenue infusion since “Obama is going to take your guns.”
- - - - - I wonder if the Gun Control camp is willing to accept any blame for increased sales of guns and ammo whenever they try to pass stupid laws. NB: not all proposed laws are stupid, but most are.
9. We will stop defending sales to civilians of non-defensive weapons like TrackingPoint’s “can’t miss” sniper rifle. We admit they are ready-made for insurrectionists, terrorists and hate groups.
- - - - - I don't know if they do that but if they are a lobbying arm of the industry then that's their job. No big deal to me.
10. We regret our work to help suspected domestic abusers keep their guns while under orders of protection. We admit this costs many women’s lives and that our sleazy sales pitch to tell women to arm themselves too just makes things worse.
- - - - - Again, I don't know if they've done that. Gun owners probably overwhelmingly do not support this sort of thing.
Gun owners are not the NRA, and the NRA is not the spokesmember for all gun owners.
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