When It Comes to Enabling the Terrorism of Gun Deaths in America, No One Beats the NRA
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
By Mark Karlin
Did you know that the shooter at Fort Hood did not use an army issued gun? No, he bought his weapon legally at a firearms store with the name of "Guns Galore":
Law enforcement officials say a 5.7-millimeter pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting rampage was purchased legally at a Texas gun store.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
Records indicate Hasan bought the FN 5.7 at store called “Guns Galore” in Killeen, Texas, well before the attack that left 13 people dead. The pistol has been dubbed a “cop killer” by those who have tried to stop its use.
The most powerful type of ammunition for the gun is available only to law enforcement and military personnel. Gun control advocates call it a “cop killer” weapon because that ammo can pierce bulletproof vests, and its use by Mexican drug cartels worries police.
The National Rifle Association has made all this possible, including using its nearly omnipotent clout to forbid the FBI from stopping suspected terrorists from buying guns. That's right, the NRA believes people believed to possibly be terrorists have a "2nd Amendment" right to own guns!
While the right wing nut jubs revel in the politics of paraonia against anyone who is Islamic, the NRA is enabling around 10,000 gun homicides a year in the United States by good 'ole Americans. Now, that's a far larger death toll than 9/11 or Fort Hood.
The NRA represents a fanatical philosophy that is akin to the fundamentalism underlying terrorism, and -- as a result -- is our chief domestic enabler of terrorism (along with the right wing media) by making sure that guns are readily available to just about anyone with the cash to pay for them.
We have become so numb to everyday shooting deaths in America that we focus on tragic and sensational losses, such as Fort Hood, but can't see the forest through the trees. The NRA is so extremist, it even has kept a military sniper rifle on the market that can assassinate a person (public official) from nearly a mile away with accuracy. Given the heightened number of death threats against President Obama, you would think a .50 caliber sniper rifle would be banned for civilian purchase, but not with the NRA around to champion terrorist weapons. (Only the State of California bans civlians from purchasing the .50 caliber sniper rifle.)
Over Thanksgiving, I read of numerous shootings -- as is daily the case in America. There's always one or two that especially stick out, such as this massacre in Florida in which 4 members of a family were shot dead, allegedly by a cousin: "Six-year-old Makayla Sitton didn't get to act in The Nutcracker Ballet. The night before she was to go on stage, she was shot to death with three others in a home in Jupiter, Florida."
There could be effective regulation of firearms in the United States, but the NRA is more dangerous in terms of yearly homicides by resisting logical legislation than any terrorist acts we have experienced thus far in the United States.
The NRA ensures that there is a ready supply of guns that kill about 100,000 Americans in a decade in homicides, and many more in suicides and accidents.
No terrorists can match that figure, and if they tried, they would likely buy arms in the U.S., as the Fort Hood shooter did, not meant for civilian use and capable of either mass murder or an assassination.
When it comes to the terrorist watch list, the NRA -- which fans the flames of armed militia and white male paranoia in the U.S. -- should be at the top of the list.
They are primarily responsible -- along with the gun manufcaturers -- for turning America into a shooting gallery, with a mind-boggling death toll.
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We have become so numb to everyday shooting deaths in America that we focus on tragic and sensational losses, such as Fort Hood, but can't see the forest through the trees. The NRA is so extremist, it even has kept a military sniper rifle on the market that can assassinate a person (public official) from nearly a mile away with accuracy. Given the heightened number of death threats against President Obama, you would think a .50 caliber sniper rifle would be banned for civilian purchase, but not with the NRA around to champion terrorist weapons. (Only the State of California bans civlians from purchasing the .50 caliber sniper rifle.)
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NRA and the Second Amendment
Until the sudden and tragic murders of both Kennedys and Martin Luther King, the NRA was primarily for hunters and sportsmen and women. But with every highly publicized shooting the various anti gun activists and politicians ready to capitalize on the tragedies began pushing for more and more redundant laws which did nothing to stop the person who does not obey the laws. For a long time NRA preached enforcement of existing laws and has fought to keep firearms ownership a right of private citizens with the further right that the government would never have a list of gun owners whereby it could round up all the guns. Please remember that all the totalitarian governments and murderous dictatorships in the past hundred years began their oppression by taking away citizens guns. It did not matter whether those guns were for hunting or self defense. Fortunately in these United States the supreme court has finally ruled that firearms ownership for any legal purpose is every sane and law abiding citizen's individual right. Like it or not this right is the main guarantee for the preservation of all the rest. If we only lived in a perfect world there would be no guns, no tyranny, no crazies, no criminals. The American psyche is very adolescent in nature with its aspects of absolutism, entitlement, and poor abilities in comprehending or accepting nuanced interpretations of life experiences. This is a bad combination in which to place a firearm. However, with ownership of firearms in the multi millions and an estimate of enough guns to place one in the hands of every one of the over three hundred million citizens it is doubtful that this country will outright ban guns. Are there other ways of dealing with the problem? Perhaps instead of spending almost eight hundred billion dollars a year on maintaining American military empire all over the world that money could be used to educate, create meaningful jobs, healthcare and other programs to help the average American citizen in his or her pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Will there always be the occassional crazy person? Yes. Can we minimize the number of angry and powerless people who might go over the edge? We could if we chose to do so. In the meantime will more laws control those who do not obey the laws? No. Will banning some guns keep the criminals from obtaining an unbanned gun or something else with which to injure and kill people? No, of course not. For those who drone on about such laws and bans I ask that you really think about the problem and find a solution that positively helps all people...even the angry, crazy, over the edge people. That is much more of a challenge and it demands more than laws and bans.
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NRA Is a National Disgrace
Mark:
Believe me, you are far from alone in blasting the NRA as enablers of terrorists. One month following the April 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, I wrote a blistering attack on the NRA of my own. In it, I delved into its origins and its history -- including how the organization -- originally founded for hunters and sportsmen -- was taken over by Second Amendment extremists in the mid-70s and has remained an extremist organization ever since.
I invite you to post a link to my article to the main BuzzFlash home page, bearing in mind that the article is two-and-a-half years old:
http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2007/05/national-rifle-association-has-become.html
Incomprehensible Incongruity
What to me and I'm sure others is the incomprehensible incongruity of the gun nut troglodytic mind. Asinine whining and irrationally claiming that the preserving of the "... to right to keep and bear arms..." is required to protect law abiding Americans from usurpation of their constitutional rights. However, despite millions of these intellectually and historisitically challenged doofuses keeping and bearing arms in even more millions, the federal government has systematically used the Bill of Rights to extend the rights of real persons to sociopathic corporations to the detriment of real live human persons including them.Then it created no knock laws, engaged warrantless searches and seizures, denial of habeas corpus, wide spread disfranchisement of voting rights, invasion of privacy, wanton police brutality, harassment of reporters, merging of church and state... all, flagrant violations of the the Bill of Rights without any of these alleged uber patriots so much as not only not firing a shot but not even making a peep.
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Stupidity writ large
When it comes to overdoing something, nobody overdoes it like Americans.
With so many gun toting ninnies in this country, is it any wonder someone occasionally goes bonkers and cuts loose on a crowd of people?
We've got so many friggin' guns in the hands of halfwits we could shoot the entire Chinese army using each one only once. If that isn't excessive, I don't know what is.
The NRA has a lot of power because dummies GIVE it to them, period.
We need common sense.
As long as we have an enabling court system we will have gun deaths. Civilians do not need to possess military style weapons. The NRA should revert back to their original status - support for hunters.
Their cry of 2nd Amendment rights has definitely hurt this country. People are not traveling to Mexico (Me included!) because of the threat of the drug cartels with their high powered weapons. The Mexican government asked for help as they feel the weapons are being purchased in this country. I'm sure many foreign citizens are reluctant to visit the USA because this country has so much gun related violence.
Common sense is needed. Hunters don't use or need these high powered, millitary style guns. Most hunters probably don't own them. Let's enact sane laws that allow hunters to enjoy their sport, people to have reasonable types of weapons for self defense and get rid of the rest.
Put the NRA on notice we want honest dialog about 2nd Amendment rights and won't tolerate their terrorist fear mongering any longer.
The weapons the drug cartels
The weapons the drug cartels have are fully automatic weapons, grenades, and RPGs.
You CANNOT buy these weapons in a a gun store in the US!
The United States is the worlds largest arms dealer. Thousands of soldiers have deserted, what do they take with them? Weapons of course. In an article by CNN it says that the Mexican army has had 150,000 desertions in the last 6 years! http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/11/mexico.desertions/index.html Banning semi-automatic weapons in the US isn't going to stop the cartels from getting actual fully automatic assault rifles from deserting soldiers and other weapons from Central America and overseas. Why would they want a civilian semi-automatic only (and not easily convertible) lookalike of an AK-47 from us when they could get an actual full-auto AK-47? The cartels are certianly not smuggling grenades and RPGs from borders states.
Actual military weapons such as fully automatic weapons, bombs, grenades and other explosives have been strictly regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934.
In case you didn't know, semi-automatic means it fires one shot per pull of the trigger, fully automatic firearms, which will continue to load and fire until the trigger is released or until the ammunition is exhausted. BIG DIFFERANCE. Semi-automatic weapons have been around for more than 100 years! Fully automatics are restricted almost entirely to police and military use.
The weapons hunters use are almost always more powerful than an "assault weapon" A 30-06 deer rifle is more than TWICE as powerful as a .223 round that the AR-15 fires, which is a rifle that looks like our military's M-16 only it cannot fire 3-round burst or fully automatic. Rifles in .223 can't be used for deer in many states because its not powerful enough to take a deer humanely. There's even some hunting rifles for big game with are more than 5 or more times as powerful as a .223 round! Only about only 1 in 5 gun owners are hunters. Many hunting weapons are also semi-automatic. The Remington 750 is a deer rifle than fires the same way as an AR-15, and it comes in calibers such as .308 and 30-06, considerably more powerful than so-called "military-style" weapons.
You know what the "assault weapons ban" was about?
COSMETIC FEATURES! Yep, because thats the only difference between an average wood stocked semi-automatic rifle like a Mini-14 and a scary black rifle like an AR-15. They are the same caliber and, fire at the same rate. One round for each pull of the trigger.
Except for the grenade launcher (Rifle grenades are strictly regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934, as is fully automatic weapons and grenades) Many of these "evil" features are entirely cosmetic or they are safety features. Certainly how much a handgun weighs doesn't make a handgun more deadly.
A pistol grip on a rifle or shotgun is more ergonomic than a straight stock and if a pistol grip was meant to be used for "spray-firing from the hip" as some people say, then why would it have a stock and sights used to aim? Makes no sense to me. Actually a pistol grip is less comfortable to hold from the hip, try it with a hammer. A flash suppressor helps so that you don't become blinded by the light, other people can still see the flash, it's still quite noticeable even with one. A barrel shroud helps so that your hands don't get burnt. Nearly all shotguns or rifles have at least handgaurds. A length of the stock extends out past the receiver (where the working parts are) and covers part of the barrel, this functions the same thing as a barrel shroud. Any barrel will get hot from being fired, even timed shots.
Another thing the AWB banned was magaizines that hold more than 10 rounds. How lame, theres been guns that hold more than 10 rounds for more than 150 years! The Henry rifle from the Civil War can/could hold 16 rounds of .44!
You could even still own "assault weapons" under the ban. It just couldn't have the "military style" features. You could have an semi-automatic only AK-47 lookalike, it just couldn't have the baynet lug and flash surpressor with a pistol grip. Take those off and have just have pistol grip, you could own one because it only had one of the listed features.
Firearms that are semi-automatic only versions of modern military firearms CANNOT be easily converted to fully automatic. They used different parts and any gun thats easily convertable is considered to be fully automatic by the ATF.
Also, with standard civilian ammunition, the rounds the FN Five-Seven fires CANNOT pierce body armor. This has been confirmed by the ATF. The armor piercing ammo is heavily restricted. Without the restricted ammo, it cannot pierce armor.
These "military style" weapons are perfectly reasonable for self-defence, as they are no different from other firearms except for the appearence.
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