re: #254 Targetpractice

They’re saying the usual, namely that any gun control passed will have to be sabotaged in such a way as to render it effectively useless. Shifting the cost of background checks onto the government means they can just vote, at one level or another, to cut that funding and ensure that gun shops aren’t running background checks due to lack of funding. When the number of checks goes down and guns in the hands of those who shouldn’t have them rise, they declare this “proof” that background checks are ineffective and push to abandon them.

Here’s what I love:

“We are all obsessed with the Taliban and we ought to be. What about the gangs?” LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president, said according to a Fox News transcript. “They are ruining neighborhoods all over the country? We need a federal task force, if it takes 500 agents, if it takes a thousand agents, go into Chicago.

“Every gang member on the street of Chicago, starting tomorrow morning, let’s pick ‘em up, we’ve got a federal law to get them off the street and put them in prison, and that would cut crime and we’re not doing it.”

So the organization that uses fear of a tyrannical government to justify their gun fetish is suggesting the government just go around and start rounding people up and throwing them in prison. Starting “tomorrow.” Just get 500 government agents and have them start roaming the streets, rounding up “every gang member” (wonder if he means scary dark people?).

The freakin’ balls on this guy