What does the phrase "I'm a proud NRA member" have to do with health care reform?

[tridim]

This is in reference to the NRA memeber asking a question at the Montana town hall.

I'd really like to know, because from where I sit (the real world) it makes exactly zero sense.

Is the NRA against health care reform? If so, why? Politics?

[RagAss]

1. Just his way of introducing himself as a Dick with Ears !!!

[onehandle]

2. The NRA is owned by the GOP.

Lock, stock, and McVeigh.

[tridim]

3. Well yes, but it still has nothing to do with health care.

Well, in Cheney's case it might when he shoots people in the face.

[onehandle]

22. The GOP orders all of its sub-groups to do their bidding.

The money gets spread after the fact.

[sandnsea]

4. What did he ask? n/t

[tridim]

7. He TOLD the President that he can't pay for the public option.

Then the President explained how it is paid for.

That's it.

[sandnsea]

34. Then he was announcing his idiocy

although I'm sure that's not what he thought he was doing.

Occasionally a rural person will say that to let the audience know he isn't a treehugger even though he supports some kind of rational reform. Not very often, but sometimes.

[ncteechur]

5. He was hoping that he would hear a resounding riot behind him telling him that his

wing nut buddies had his back. He didn't get it.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Probably announcing he has a concealed carry permit.

[tridim]

10. So it was a threat?

Just lovely.

[Mz Pip]

8. It's subtext for

I didn't vote for you. I don't like you.

[gateley]

20. I think you're exactly right. Letting him know. nt

[enlightenment]

9. He doesn't need health care -

when he gets too sick, he'll just walk into the woods with his gun and a single bullet.

That's what my brother keeps telling me, anyway . . . :(

[movonne]

16. Ah! now I got it that is Obama's death panels....I guess the nra goes

for that...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. That was giving the black guy

a warning - just so's he knew he was up against a real man..........

:::: sigh ::::::::

[scheming daemons]

12. That's his shout out to his freeper posse, so they know he's one of them

[eleny]

13. A way to warn O that he was packin'

:shrug:

[SteppingRazor]

14. Does "free Mumia" have anything to do with ending the Iraq War?

Protests offer an ample opportunity for people of a shared general political philosophy to meet and exchange ideas. No surprise there.

On edit: Mea culpa. I'm not watching the Montana meeting, so I thought you meant he was holding a sign among antiwar signs. As far as telling Obama that at the town-hall meeting, no, I don't really get what the point is.

[charlie]

15. Because guns have everything to do with everything

Don't believe it? Pick a topic.

Bituminous coal.

YES, guns have everything to do with bituminous coal!

See? That's how important guns are. They are really, really fucking important, and don't you forget it!

[tridim]

18. I think he should have just whipped out his penis instead.

That would have made more sense.

[onestepforward]

29. lol! So true! n/t

[charlie]

30. Think he wouldn't?

If he could say, "Ah'm a proud member of the 10-inch Club", he would've left that NRA badge at home.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. Something about "end of life..."

:think:

[graywarrior]

19. You didn't get a hard on?

I was swooooooning.

[Mythsaje]

It was an invitation to a duel outside on the street at noon...

Just one pistol-packing moron against a troop of Secret Service personnel. A momentary pause before lunch.

[kirby]

21. Subtext for I am a REAL American n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. He was saying "I'm a conservative; I didn't vote for you; I don't like you,

and I don't like much of anything your big, socialist, gun-grabber government does."

[doc03]

24. NRA is against all things Democrat, the NRA is just

a shill for the Republicans. The NRA has always been that way especially since Wayne LaPierre took office. I'm not saying all members are but their leadership is. I was a member of the NRA up until after the Oklahoma bombing when the NRA opposed putting taggets in explosives so a terrorist such as Timothy McVeigh could be caught.

[tjwash]

25. So's Michael Moore.

A lifetime NRA member actually. Did the nitwit at this meeting actually try a strain out an actual point after that?

I can see this becoming a really funny internet meme BTW.

[Ignis]

26. Because it's used as a a code-word for "anti-Socialist."

"Gubmint's gunna take my guns!"
"Gubmint's gunna kill my granny!"

:dunce:

[BlooInBloo]

27. Translation: "I have a small penis"...

EDIT: In his mind, of course, he's a BIG MAN making cowardly veiled threats.

[Tim01]

32. And he's a racist. nt

[loyalkydem]

28. Just the way he said it

I thought, this guy is going to scram and yell at the President.

[Brother Buzz]

31. It's pseudo code speak and carries the same weight as saying, "as a Veteran..."

It has nothing to do with what is at hand, it's just an insecure person hopeing his statement carry more weight with the silly qualification.

As a veteran, when I hear, "as a veteran...", I generally hear garbage. ;)

[AllenVanAllen]

33. "I'm a proud NRA member"

Translation: "I have a tiny psychological (or actual) penis, and I am afraid of everything..."

[baldguy]

35. +1