Posted on 01/17/2013 9:28:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A colleague made an interesting point this morning. If the NRA and its paranoid membership are so worried about the government creating a national gun registry, lest the government use that list to confiscate guns, they should stop worrying: The best list in the country already exists. Its called the NRA membership.
Sure, the NRA membership list doesnt contain a gun registry of all firearms owners in America. But it does contain a list of many of the most paranoid, crazy, militant gun owners. The very people a fascist government would be most concerned about.
Why does this matter?
Well, the NRA keeps saying that [insert Democrat here] is going to come to take away your guns. And thats why the NRA doesnt want the government creating a national gun registry. The list, they fear, might be used by the jackbooted thugs as a veritable shopping list of available guns to confiscate:
Interestingly, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is already barging into gun dealers shops across the country violating the McClure-Volkmer Act by violating gun owners privacy by copying the shops 4473s the agency does not already have an electronic copy of.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo - a man who gives you a pretty good idea of where gun control is going - said, on the front page of the New York Times, that confiscation of firearms is an option. Obviously, having a registration list makes such a task much easier.
So I have to laugh when I see the NRA ginning up paranoia amongst gun owners, in an effort to list-build and get donations, such as the appeal the NRA made in its recent disgusting ad targeting the Obama girls...
(Excerpt) Read more at americablog.com ...
Never seen a resume with more FAIL in it.
True enough.
Doesn’t mean the government wouldn’t try to take them, though. I hope they’d torch them before they’d let them be taken.
SnakeDoc
If gun ownership is a requirement, should the gun-less members worry that an NRA agent will break down the door at midnight and force a firearm on them?
“Do all members of the NRA have Guns?”
Not at all. I know several people who have been members for quite a long time but have never owned a gun.
I’ve thought that since Clinton was in office.
Exactly. Most leftists fancy themselves part of the ruling elite and expect to be exempt from the laws they pass to control the rabble.
I’ve been a member of the NRA and I don’t own a gun. I have the membership sticker posted on the window by my front door.
In my part of the world we have a fairly reliable gun registry. It's called the phone book.
membership lists are protected from the days when the klan would want them to kill people.
private group private list.
“If the NRA and its paranoid membership”
AND... there’s no need to read any further.
He’s trolling with that piece. For some reason, I doubt that the NRA will hand over ANYTHING to the feds.
I know of 2 people who don’t own guns but belong to the NRA. There are people who understand that all our freedoms need protecting.
"New York Governor Andrew Cuomo - a man who gives you a pretty good idea of where gun control is going - said, on the front page of the New York Times, that confiscation of firearms is an option."
Andrew Coumo is the worst kind.
Can you imagine it? Him in charge of the 2nd and Sandra lee is the flotus?
BTW Andy, Why do you “need” those 500 HP cars?
God Bless all fair minded FReepers.
Carry on.
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