Former NRA President: Banning Assault Weapons Is Like Banning People of Color

[Segami]

The National Rifle Association has repeatedly thumbed its nose at calls for stronger gun safety measures after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Current NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre shocked many by attacking these efforts and calling instead for armed guards in every school. Still, on Wednesday, past NRA President Marion Hammer took the lobbying organization’s pro-gun radicalism to new heights.


On NRA’s news show, Hammer warned that gun owners are “in for a massive fight like we’ve probably never seen before,” in which the government will take guns away “in order to control the masses.”


When asked about proposals to ban certain kinds of assault weapons, Hammer also charged that guns are suffering discrimination similar to racism against people of color:

HOST: And they even admit it’s about banning the ugliest guns. They admit it.


HAMMER: Banning people and things because of the way they look because of the way they look, but here they are again. The color of a gun, the way it looks. It’s just bad politics.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/04/1400621/former-nra-president-banning-assault-weapons-is-like-banning-people-of-color/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Well, M-16's

ARE black…

[Remmah2]

6. Segregation

M-16's are not available to the public.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Heh.

But a stickler would point out that the lookalike AR-15's are.

[Johonny]

2. guns are people, my friends

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Marion Hammer is one of the most despicable pieces of shit in this country.

She was the driving force behind Florida's Stand Your Ground law.

And she's batshit crazy as well. She hates the Florida Scrub Jay.

No, seriously. She hates the Florida Scrub Jay:

http://www.popehat.com/2009/09/09/when-muscular-all-american-birds-are-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-celebrate-muscular-all-american-birds/


In 1999, more than 10,000 schoolchildren signed a petition to change the state bird to the Florida scrub jay. Supporters boasted about how it will eat peanuts right out of a person’s hand.

Hammer was unmoved. “Begging for food isn’t sweet,” she testified in a committee hearing. “It’s lazy, and it’s a welfare mentality.” Scrub jays had lots of other bad habits that disqualified them to represent Florida, she contended. “They eat the eggs of other birds,” she told lawmakers. “That’s robbery and murder.”

[LeftInTX]

4. Oh no! Guns are people!

What will they think of next?

[dae]

11. One bullet = One vote!?!

[spanone]

5. fuck the nra....i piss on them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Come on, it's not like she has any influence over actual policy or legislation.

Those are just pictures of her and, I don't know, the past three governors of Florida.

(I like the one with her and Governor McFraudy the most....the bill actually looks like it has a ribbon on it like a present.)

[Mrs. Overall]

8. So, guns = people. Guns (people) don't kill people (guns), people (guns) kill people (guns).

Do I have that right, Ms. Hammer?

[Erose999]

9. The NRA can suck a camel's dick. They can eat a sloth bear's shitty ass.