Since you insist on equating guns with cars, I hope you wear a seat belt when you’re carrying your gun.
Must be a bitch finding a holster for your car.
DA, since you prefer legal terms to uncomfortable medical ones, somehow thinking yourself to be on more solid ground in rationalizing your fetish that way: The name of the legal term varies, but a common one “depraved indifference to human life”.
Sorry ElvisL1es, but your own cite disagrees with you. Selling a gun to someone who is legally qualified to buy and own one doesn’t meet the standard. Supporting gun ownership in general meets it even less, unless you’re prepared to expand the doctrine to totalitarian extremes. See, the law is based on this old-fashioned concept called responsibility, which is the rule of thumb for whether or not someone is guilty of malfeasance.
Perhaps you should take up the Pro-Life cause: calling advocates of legal abortion insane and murderers would surely cement your reputation here.
Sorry-That’s old news. The auction has been rebooted yet again,folks! This time, the opening bid is…$100,000! The “take me home” price is a measly half a million. :rolleyes:
Have you ever gotten a point in your entire life, Lumpy?
I fully get your point, I just think it’s stupid and wrong.
At the NRA’s annual meeting, the organization’s membership took a positive step by rejecting the violent and racist rhetoric of Ted Nugent, decisively voting him off the Board of Directors.
Ha! Just kidding! Did I have you going? Hehe!
Seriously, they just reelected him. He got the second most votes of any candidate. Look out, Ollie North, Ted’s gonna catch you in 2019! Man, the NRA loves the Nuge. Not as much as they love elder statesman Ollie North, of course, but then, who could?
When Carl Rowan announced the winners, even he looked slightly taken aback that Nugent was so soundly reelected. See the video at the link. Hmm. Perhaps Rowan had also hoped Nugent – of “Two Niggers and a Stolen Truck” fame – would have finally lost the support of the nation’s gun owners. Alas. The company you keep, I suppose.
Is that how you think analogies work?
Is the ACLU keeping company with the Nazis and Westboro Baptist Church because they both support the first amendment?
Is that how you think analogies work?
I’m a little drunk right now, so forgive me for not having the foggiest fucking idea what you’re getting at.
I’m stone-cold sober and haven’t a clue myself.
You wrote in reference to Ted Nugent:
“the company you keep, I suppose”
I thought you were implying that Ted Nugent’s support of the second amendment says something about everyone that supports the second amendment. This is not an uncommon remark made by anti-gun people, that there is some sort of link between guns and racism.
We’re talking about the NRA’s support of that idiot, Ted Nugent. There are thousands of members they could have put in that position that support the right to keep and bear arms, and there are several good reasons he makes a bad spokesman for the group…if the NRA opposes the crap he spews out. Apparently, something besides his love for the right to keep and bear arms is touching the hearts of those that keep him in. What the fuck do you think that is? This is no supposed indictment of everyone that supports the 2nd Amendment, but it certainly calls into question all those that voted for Ted.
The local police, coincidentally, being Sheriff Dave Ward of Bundy-notorious Harney County.
Third Circuit Court turns down gun maker’s appeal in Watson v. Lynch: http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/152859p.pdf
Long story short, a gun maker got permission to make a full-auto weapon, only to have that permission revoked after it was made and the gun confiscated without compensation. I absolutely “love” (= :smack:) this one line from the decision:
Uuuh… a “non-dangerous weapon”? Isn’t that sorta contradictory?
Yes, my comment was directed specifically at the NRA, for keeping company with – in fact energetically embracing – racist hatemonger Ted Nugent. The membership of the NRA had an opportunity to demonstrate that they are civil rights activists rather than racist gun fetishists. They passed up that opportunity.
My comment was also directed more specifically at Rowan, who is black, and who seemed to have a fleeting moment of clarity when he announced the choices of the group of racist motherfuckers he’s chosen to align himself with.
Do any NRA members in this thread really like being represented by the likes of Oliver North, Ted Nugent, and Wayne LaPierre? Imagine if these guys moved into your neighborhood or joined an organization you cared about. Would you be happy to have them in your community?
And don’t bother telling me how the NRA Board of Directors is just a meaningless honorary post. If it’s meaningless, then it costs the NRA nothing to kick Nugent off. If it’s honorary, then the membership is honoring Ted Fucking Nugent.
Way to go, NRA. Excellent work, you miserable pieces of shit.
Well if the comment was not supposed to say anything about anyone other than the people that directly voted for Ted then I don’t know wtf “company you keep” means in that context.
The fact of the matter is that a teeny tiny percentage of the NRA membership bothers to vote in the elections. The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of vile racists in the rural south. The fact of the matter is that for totally unrelated reasons guns are popular in the rural south. Some confluence of these factors led to the re-election of Ted Nugent.
The voter participation among NRA members is somewhere in the single digits.
I am much more concerned about Grover Norquist than some offensive loud mouth racist. Loud mouth racism has a tendency to take care of itself. Injecting anti-government, anti-tax, anti-union, Ayn Rand style objectivism is much more toxic to the organization. It is turning the gun issue into a partisan issue when it doesn’t have to be. Guns are starting to become part of partisan orthodoxy and that is bad regardless of which side of the debate you are on.
You’d think that if these board members were objectionable to the majority of NRA members more of them would get off their asses and vote them out. But, no-they seem happy with the status quo, with the wild and wacky and ugly statements put out by the board of the organization they pay dues to. Of course voter participation is low-when there is no real opposition to the nutcases running for office, you only need a handful of people to get them in, so there is no need to “get out the votes”, is there?