Well, I just received the latest screed from the ".50 caliber terror" website...
... and this one has some really funny bits. Try this on for size:What is the chief honcho for the National Rifle Association and key Bush supporter doing with a French name? I mean with a name like Wayne LaPierre, you'd think good 'ol Wayne would be buttering croissants with John Kerry instead of working to make it easy for terrorists to buy big guns.... and that is coming from the supposed party of tolerance and diversity? Maybe, just maybe, Republicans and gun-rights enthusiasts aren't so obsessed with race and class struggles? The French government has been a real pain in the neck lately, to be sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all French are idiots -- just that the ones still in France have elected a government of idiots. Those who left France in favor of American don't bear any personal stigma for their choice. Oh, and we mean big guns. Like the .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle that a terrorist can use to shoot down a plane landing or taking off."Shoot down"? Unlikely, even on landing or takeoff. Even if you could hit the airplane at that point (and remember, it's thousands of feet away at best, moving about 200 miles per hour, probably at an angle, and you've only got one shot), a .50 bullet isn't going to do much more than poke a finger-sized hole in an airplane. Just about every vital system on the airplane is duplicated, including the pilot, so a prospective terrorist would need to not only hit and disable a vital system on his first shot, but make a followup shot to hit and disable the backup for that system.No sane terrorist will try that. Because of LaPierre's brass knuckle threats to Congress, he got them and the Justice Department to make it as easy for a terrorist to buy a .50 cal| as it is to buy a rifle."brass knuckle threats"? What an imagination! Congress has made no changes to existing law on this matter. The same people prohibited from purchasing a firearm are still prohibited from purchasing a firearm. Actual, convicted terrorists are prohibited from purchasing or even possessing a firearm, just like every other felon in the United States. Alleged terrorists, on the other hand, may be subject to greater scrutiny in some situations but are still afforded due process of law. Oh. And before I forget, there's a reason the .50 caliber rifle is as easy to buy as a rifle. That's because it is a rifle. Because of the NRA, the Government Accounting Office said "47 known or suspected terrorists were allowed to buy firearms in the United States from February through October last year, including some who were under active surveillance." That's the way Wayne wants it.Yup. There's this little principle called innocent until proven guilty that comes into play here. If your jaw just dropped and you break out in a cold sweat when your next plane takes off, maybe you'll be wondering if the NRA is getting a little extra "dues" from Al-Qaeda. Because otherwise, how could anyone advocate a policy that makes us more vulnerable to terrorism?"I have a list, right here in my hand, of known Yes, the left is the new party of McCarthyism. Can you possibly go any lower than this? Alleging -- with no proof -- that the NRA receives funding from terrrorists in order to protect their access to firearms in the US? Of course, the Bush Administration gives the NRA whatever it wants, even if it means putting a .50 caliber sniper rifle right in the hands of a terrorist.Believe it or not, Bush has steadfastly maintained a centrist position on gun control. He supports the assault weapons ban, which the NRA is uncomfortable with and the more hard-core gun-rights activists despise. His Justice Department has put out an opinion stating that 2nd Amendment is an individual right -- the same position favored by honest historians and scholars. Anyone who thinks that Bush would back off on his anti-terrorist policy in favor of gun rights is deluding themselves. The truth is, terrorists will be able to acquire firearms in the United States -- or in any country -- by breaking the gun control laws in the same way they break all the other laws forbidding acts of terrorism. Remember, it's your life that's at stake -- and Wayne LaPierre couldn't give a damn, nor could the Bush Administration.While the idea for this email was germinating in the mind of Tom Diaz and his fellow gun bigots, gun owner and concealed-carrier Mark Wilson gave his life to save the lives of strangers. Military veteran Ron Martell, who had just watched several people murdered before his eyes, and despite being unarmed, followed the killer and pointed him out to police. Who do you trust? Who do you want next to you if a terrorist should decide you are his personal ticket to paradise? Do you want a gun bigot? Or do you want a gun owner? |
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