IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET
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Posted on 10/05/2012 12:13:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The National Rifle Association (NRA) endorsed Mitt Romney for president late Thursday.
NRA Executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and NRA Political Victory Fund chairman Chris Cox will formally announce the endorsement at a Romney rally in Virginia later Thursday evening. Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will also be on hand.
“In this election, there is no debate,” LaPierre said in a statement. “There is only one choice – only one hope – to save our firearms freedom and our way of life.”
The endorsement is not surprising — the NRA has a history of supporting conservative candidates, who traditionally support strong gun rights.
“Today, we live in an America that is getting harder to recognize every day led by a President who mocks our values, belittles our faith, and is threatened by our freedom,” Cox said in a statement.
Gun rights became a campaign issue earlier in the year after a mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado.
The late-night shooting at a crowded premier for "The Dark Knight Rises" left 12 dead and dozens wounded has rekindled calls by some on the left to push for stricter gun laws.
The semi-automatic rifle, an AR-15, was illegal under federal law until a ban on it was lifted in 2004.
“I still believe that the Second Amendment is the right course to preserve and defend and don't believe that new laws are going to make a difference in this type of tragedy,” Romney said at the time.
Disgusting that the NRA would endorse a POS left-winger who actually signed an assault weapons ban. A conservative Republican congress might well hold this Democrat-with-an-R in check, but I don’t count on it. And no, before you get to it, I’m not voting for Obama.
Cass Sunstein? That’s who Romney wants to nominate to the Supreme Court? I’d rather have him doing what he’s doing now.
No. Obama would nominate him though. Sunstein was Obama’s regulatory czar for awhile.
He can support hunting and sign another federal AWB at the same time. The NRA should sit this one out ... should they support a man who banned guns, or a man who has stated that he'd like to but never has? Neither.
They can either support a man who wishes to destroy this country and is in the process of doing so, or AFB else and take their chances (our chances, actually, although I quit the NRA back during the last election when they propped up Harry Reid) with him.
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There’s a third option, which is to admit that neither candidate supports strong gun rights, thereby earning their endorsement.
That’s support by default for Barack Hussein Obama.
there’s no hope for people who are too stupid to understand math that basic
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