Wow, Wow, Wow.....No Gun Zones, Gun Registration, Background Checks and now Micro-stamping again!

[rfranklin]

84. Here you go Mr. Nada...

As both The Washington Post and the New York Times reported last week, the idea came from on high, courtesy of the NRA, which worked closely with a right-wing group called the American Legislative Exchange Council.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-the-nra-pushes-stand-your-ground/2012/04/15/gIQAL458JT_story.html

Darren LaSorte, a lobbyist for the rifle association, wanted the legislation, like Florida’s law, to extend protection to any place where a person had a legal right to be, said several Republican lawmakers who met with Mr. LaSorte. But having been successful in getting an earlier bill passed to allow the carrying of concealed weapons, Mr. LaSorte accepted a compromise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/us/nra-campaign-leads-to-expanded-self-defense-laws.html?_r=2&ref=ericagoode

Despite the unrivaled distinction of the United States as the murder capital of the developed world, the NRA has opposed all attempts to stem the proliferation of guns. Whenever Congress seems the least interested in the most minor of gun restrictions, the NRA invokes images of Nazism. Its two decades of calling federal firearms agents ''jackbooted thugs'' drove former President George Bush to resign his NRA membership in 1995.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/031700-101.htm

The VA concludes with the "simple steps that can save someone you love," in which it advises that "[t]he best way to reduce gun risks is to remove the gun from your home." If you decide to keep guns, the VA suggests that they be stored "in a sturdy locked cabinet," unloaded, with trigger guards on each of the guns, with ammunition "in a locked fireproof safe in a separate place from the guns." But it reiterates that "[t]he safest action is to get rid of the guns."

Of course, this is enough to drive the NRA around the bend. In a statement entitled "Veterans Administration Overdoses on Anti-Gun Prescription," the gun lobby decries the VA pamphlet as "what the taxpayers get when people who know nothing about firearms issues take their cues from people who lie about firearms issues..." Then, intending to inflict on the VA the unkindest cut of all, the NRA suggests "that if one of its pamphleteers isn't related to the Brady Campaign's Dennis Henigan, he or she ought to be." I would be proud to be related to the authors of the VA's publication but, to my knowledge, I am not.

The VA's public education campaign is threatening to the NRA precisely because it was not initiated by gun control advocates, but rather arises from a desire by medical professionals at the VA to take common-sense steps against entirely preventable deaths and injuries to veterans from guns kept in the home. The VA has done nothing more than give sound advice based on the best medical and public health knowledge about the risks of guns. For doing so, it now faces the wrath of the gun lobby.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-a-henigan/the-va-tells-the-truth-ab_b_1521027.html