No Background Checks, No Restrictions on High-Capacity Magazines, Okay on Assault Weapons
and: Teachers Basic Classroom Gear and "Flak jacket backpacks" for Students
NRA Approach to Serious Problems: “What can you do against the lunatic who professes to be more intelligent than you, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” — Orwell
My basic philosophy regarding guns: There is nothing wrong with owning a gun or more than one gun. It is our Constitutional right, but, why does anyone need an arsenal in their basement?
No one needs an AR-15 at home or in their car or truck for protection.
There is no need for high-capacity clips, magazines, or drums, except maybe at a gun club for range shooting and then under strict lock and key.
Open carry laws for guns in bars, on campus, and in churches are just plain insane.
Not having a detailed national background is something the NRA used support, but not any longer. Add these well-known NRA policy positions to your lite reading list. They are from my library of rational thinking:
1. They oppose closing the “terror watch list” gap.
2. They oppose closing the “no background checks at gun shows.”
3. They support “stand your ground laws” (should be renamed the Geo. Zimmerman law).
4. They support “guns the workplace.”
5. They support “guns in bars and on campus.”
6. They support easier “concealed and open carry gun laws.”
7. They support guns on Amtrak.
Summary: I cannot or will not pretend to speak for everyone, but the fear now being generated about guns and that whole issue from the NRA and apparently many in Congress is just a little bit short of seeing us lose our national sanity in favor of a national mental breakdown. Unless and until rational minds and logical thinking prevail, I fear the worse is yet to come. It is a common human reaction for people to react to fear or about being told what to fear. The NRA is great at peddling fear. Policy based on fear mongering is just as dangerous as those who peddle it.
My basic philosophy regarding guns: There is nothing wrong with owning a gun or more than one gun. It is our Constitutional right, but, why does anyone need an arsenal in their basement?
No one needs an AR-15 at home or in their car or truck for protection.
There is no need for high-capacity clips, magazines, or drums, except maybe at a gun club for range shooting and then under strict lock and key.
Open carry laws for guns in bars, on campus, and in churches are just plain insane.
Not having a detailed national background is something the NRA used support, but not any longer. Add these well-known NRA policy positions to your lite reading list. They are from my library of rational thinking:
1. They oppose closing the “terror watch list” gap.
2. They oppose closing the “no background checks at gun shows.”
3. They support “stand your ground laws” (should be renamed the Geo. Zimmerman law).
4. They support “guns the workplace.”
5. They support “guns in bars and on campus.”
6. They support easier “concealed and open carry gun laws.”
7. They support guns on Amtrak.
Summary: I cannot or will not pretend to speak for everyone, but the fear now being generated about guns and that whole issue from the NRA and apparently many in Congress is just a little bit short of seeing us lose our national sanity in favor of a national mental breakdown. Unless and until rational minds and logical thinking prevail, I fear the worse is yet to come. It is a common human reaction for people to react to fear or about being told what to fear. The NRA is great at peddling fear. Policy based on fear mongering is just as dangerous as those who peddle it.
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