The NRA made anti-LGBT attacks during their annual meeting just weeks ago. https://t.co/v5OR9ahlF7 pic.twitter.com/tO0ILfOdiP
— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 12, 2016
Remember that NRA convention where they threw a bunch of gay guys off the roof? Neither does anybody else.
ETA: Seriously?
A look at tomorrow’s front page…
50 dead in Orlando club massacre,
THANKS, @NRA:https://t.co/9Du2YEdzEo pic.twitter.com/hVJvzC351j— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 13, 2016
I’m not even in the NRA and I’m offended.
Insane NRA people . . . they insist on clinging to their guns and reality!
And it’s going to get worse…
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/noah-feldman-the-future-of-u-s-gun-laws-weighs-in-the-balance-of-november-election
That moment when the absurdity actually becomes a caricature of itself.
So, this shall be the machine’s next full-court-press, then. Very well, let ’em come. It’s not like they weren’t going to come again at some point, right? It’s just kinda what they do.
Via Codrea, I was impressed with the Pink Pistols’ statement. May they help untold others to see clearly, and may they confound the nannystaters who don’t have a page for them in their playbook.
It might now be unavoidable for them, but my first guess is that Democrats don’t want their election rhetoric to be based on gun control. (At least, not for this particular election cycle, where they hope to win voters who might normally vote Republican.)
What was the headline for Timothy Mcveigh?
No, I’m no NRA fan (don’t get me started) but I do think we need to look a bit further for the villain here. For one thing, it’s hard to imagine a USA where a security guard wouldn’t be allowed to own weapons. So there is no logical/conceivable gun control legislation that would have taken guns out of this particular shooter’s hands.
Trump’s response (to darkly blame Obama) is even more incoherent. In fact, it puts him firmly in lunatic fringe territory. There are many things that you can logically blame on Obama, but I really doubt if he ordered any massacres in Orlando this weekend. If he had, it surely wouldn’t have been in a gay nightclub! Think about it. 🙂
They don’t call it yellow journalism for nothin’.
Yesterday yet another Islamic attack in Paris. Stabbed a man to death then murdered his wife. The police saved their child though. Islamonutters no guns required.