Why the NRA is more monstrous than you think

[DanTex]

97. Hmm, doesn't seem to be anything about a "culture war".

I also missed the part about how she wants to culturally persecute rural white people. Maybe you linked to the wrong article.

As far as AWB, I agree, it was toothless. What they should really do is classify all semi-automatics and all handguns as NFA weapons, with the same registration and transfer laws. Can I count you as an ally on that?

As for the rest, the "gun violence isn't really that bad" argument is one of the weakest in the whole NRA playbook. 10,000 gun homicides, by any rational measure, is a huge amount. Think a 9-11 every three or four months. Or, better yet, about the same number of US lives lost per year than during Vietnam.

You know, Vietnam, that was before my time. Was that, like, a big deal? Were people protesting and stuff? Or was it like, meh, more people die of natural causes, no big deal? I assume you were standing alongside Mitt Romney in the pro-war protests waving a banner that said "it's just 10,000 lives per year people, get a grip!".


Yes, let's fix the healthcare system. And let's also address gun violence. Addressing gun violence and fixing the healthcare system aren't mutually exclusive. They are complementary. You do know that public health experts consider gun violence to be an epidemic in this country, right? So much so that the GOP has blocked funding for research into gun violence prevention, and is currently threatening to derail Obama's surgeon general choice because of comments about the toll of gun violence. Weird that none of that seems to bother you as much as the AWB. Wonder why that might be.