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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:14 PM Jun 2014

Gun extremists finally go too far: What will make the NRA realize they’ve lost America?

So it now appears that the Texas GOP plans to violate Texans’ God-given right to get drunk and shoot someone. Wayne Slater reports:

Open carry advocates say they’ll be at the Fort Worth Convention Center this week for the state GOP convention to encourage a change in state law to allow open carry of handguns in Texas. State GOP chairman Steve Munisteri says it’s fine if demonstrators want to gather outside the hall, but can’t bring their rifles inside. He warns that would violate the prohibition against carrying guns anyplace that has a permit to sell alcohol.

Obviously, they’ll need to secede from the GOP — or Texas, or both. But perhaps not immediately. The gun-toters of Texas have a lot on their plate these days. The NRA, they can handle, apparently. After a post on the NRA’s “News and Issues” page criticized their strategy of carrying assault rifles into retail establishments as both “weird” and “scary,” not to mention “unneighborly,” Texas long gun open carry groups pushed back hard, and the NRA quickly backed down. But they did not fare nearly as well when asked a simple question about their public gun-toting strategy by MSNBC’s Joy Reid.

“Do you think it would scare people?” Reid asked repeatedly, when she had Tov Henderson, communications director for Open Carry Texas, on “The Reid Report” on May 3. “I can’t get you to answer a very simple question, of do you think it scares people to see, let alone one armed person, but a bunch of armed people in this day and age, when we have so many mass shootings? Do you think it scares people?”

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/10/gun_extremists_finally_go_too_far_what_will_make_the_nra_realize_theyve_lost_america/
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Gun extremists finally go too far: What will make the NRA realize they’ve lost America? (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2014 OP
When American voters change their voting patterns hack89 Jun 2014 #1
care to comment Duckhunter935 Jun 2014 #2
OMG, who will stop the bloodshed from these Open Carry demonstrations? DonP Jun 2014 #3
It only makes sense to Ok OC of sidearms. ileus Jun 2014 #4
Perhaps if the NRA has lost American it's now time to attempt to pass another assault ... spin Jun 2014 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2014 #6
 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
2. care to comment
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:35 PM
Jun 2014

on your Google dump? It would be nice if you as a host would kindly respect the SOP of this group.

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
3. OMG, who will stop the bloodshed from these Open Carry demonstrations?
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 02:46 PM
Jun 2014

So Salon has another cow about guns. By now they must have a nice herd going. I hope it's a dairy herd, we need more ice cream for summer.

I think the whole Open carry thing is kinda pointless, but based on the people on DU with their drawers twisted in a knot, you'd think dozens have died as a result of these bozos. How dare they offend your delicate sensibilities. (Aren't we supposed to be the delicate flowers?) Oh and they're fat too. Only on DU and about gun owners is it OK to make fun of fat people. Wonder how that would go over ion HoF?

If these OC guys are looking for attention, the short sighted and utterly ineffective gun control fans are giving it to them.

All with no visible impact on these gun owners or carrying in general beyond wishful thinking in online threads here and there.

spin

(17,493 posts)
5. Perhaps if the NRA has lost American it's now time to attempt to pass another assault ...
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 06:23 PM
Jun 2014

weapons ban.

I would be willing to bet that it wouldn't go any further than the last try. If I'm right it would prove that the NRA hasn't lost America.

In passing most gun owners including me see no need to carry long guns such as AR-15s in restaurants or other public places. A legally concealed handgun is different as it doesn't scare or intimidate anyone.

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