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The NRA’s Enemies List

By majestic on February 1, 2013 in News 32

Much to the delight of the liberal media, Wayne LaPierre and his equally juvenile pals at the National Rifle Association have published a list of their enemies. Here’s a link to the very poorly formatted list, and to save you the effort of going through it yourselves, here’s a sampler of some of the organizations they’ve identified:

AARP
American Medical Association
B`nai B`rith
National Black Nurses` Association
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
YWCA of the U.S.A

and some of the individuals:

Maya Angelou – Poet
Kevin Bacon – Actor
Richard Belzer – Actor
Jon Bon Jovi – Singer
Christie Brinkley – Model
Matt Damon – Actor
Geraldo – TV personality
Keyshawn Johnson – NFL player

and finally, Ed Koch, RIP.… Read the rest

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Hey NRA, How Dare You?

By majestic on December 22, 2012 in News 77

Wayne LaPierre._Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC)

Gretchen Whitmer, State Senator for Michigan, says what the vast majority of Americans believe, writing at Huffington Post. NRA members, listen up and take back your organization from the lunatics running your asylum.

Barely more than an hour after our nation took a moment of silence on Friday to reflect on the tragic events that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association ended their organization’s own silence by telling us that the mindless violence we saw is simply now a part of life. They said that it was Hollywood’s fault that incidents like these happen and that the only way we can hope to keep our children safe as a result is to keep them surrounded by more and more guns.

As a mom who holds the safety and happiness of my two girls above all else, I have only one response to NRA President Wayne LaPierre: How dare you?

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One Nation, Under The Gun

By majestic on April 16, 2012 in News 158

Jill Lepore details the incredible number of guns in America, for the New Yorker:

…There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American…

The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed. Most Americans do not, however, own guns, because three-quarters of people with guns own two or more. According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades. In 1973, there were guns in roughly one in two households in the United States; in 2010, one in three.

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Amtrak To Allow Guns On Most Trains

By Pelliciari on November 30, 2010 in News 4

Want to travel through the country with your firearms, but can’t get through airport security? No worries, take the train! Amtrak will soon allow passengers to transport their firearms, unloaded and stored away. The Sacramento Bee reports:

Reversing a near decadelong ban, Amtrak will allow passengers to bring guns on most trains starting next month, including several that stop in Sacramento.

The change, pushed by gun rights advocates and ordered by Congress, aligns Amtrak’s firearms policy with air travel rules that allow unloaded guns to be stored in locked baggage holds.

Federal Homeland Security officials on Monday said they are OK with guns being on trains as long as security protocols are enforced.

“It’s deemed safe and appropriate,” federal Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said. “If people follow the rules, it’s pretty simple.”

[Continues at The Sacramento Bee]… Read the rest

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