Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumNRA supports Bernie Sanders
The politics of the National Rifle Association's annual conference in Louisville didn't end at the group's endorsement of Donald Trump on Friday. At the conference on Saturday, Chris Cox, the head of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, played a clip of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defending his support for a 2005 law preventing lawsuits against gun companies when their materials are used by criminals. According to a report in the Guardian, Cox said to chuckles, "I don't say this often ... OK, fine, I've never said it. But Bernie's right."
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-influence/2016/05/the-nras-bernie-affair-214442
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Wants to ban "assault weapons" and has voiced support for an Australian-style forced confiscation of firearms. Do you really think the NRA would support Hills?
cutroot
(988 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)beardown
(363 posts)Chris Cox, the head of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, played a clip of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defending his support for a 2005 law preventing lawsuits against gun companies when their materials are used by criminals. According to a report in the Guardian, Cox said to chuckles, "I don't say this often ... OK, fine, I've never said it. But Bernie's right."
The article would not come up so I'm only going on the clip posted, but the poster did make a conscious decision to clip that part of the article.
One official from the NRA agrees with a Sander's position somehow turns into a "NRA supports Sanders" subject.
And if you actually pay attention to Cox's statement "...I don't say this often...OK fine, I've never said it. But Bernie's right" it sounds like he is grudgingly saying it because he HAS NEVER BEFORE agreed with Sanders.
With aim like this no wonder the poster is against guns.
DonP
(6,185 posts)We used to have a rule that you had to use the actual headline with no editing and 3 paragraphs of a story.
But many on the control side like to "sensationalize" things a bit more, to create more bumper stickers so their followers can understand it.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Because it has quacks like Ted Nugent on the board. But Dems often do themselves no favors on the gun control front. There are many states that simply will not elect an anti-gun Dem (Montana, West Virginia, etc.), and despite the fact that I'll vote for Hillary if she's the nominee, I worry that her gun control positions will hurt down-ticket Dems. I get the fact that California and New York aren't going to turn red because of Hills' positions, but there are a lot of states between those two that might if the Dems aren't careful - the Second Amendment is taken seriously in states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...reporting from the Ministry of Prop....errr Castle Bansal...errr..our friends at GCRA.