First, Barack Obama supports gun ownership rights (although he may not want you to own, say, a Howitzer). Second, you know the NRA chose this picture for a reason. Evil-looking black man. Scary.
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Get er done America! Maybe God can help you with your economic misery! Cuz John McCain is white and white is right!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Punchy
I would think that a Scary Negro who WANTED to own guns would be the scare tactic. It would seem a Black man who’d legislate to ban glocks would be more reassuring to rich old crackers
SnarkyShark
Thus proving they are just a right wing front.
I used to belong to the NRA, but never again.
Like Religion, they are making their bed and creating their own demise.
Dave
Oh noes!! I can’t haz an M-60 from a gun show now??
This is like the NRA freaking out when Wilder wanted to limit handgun purchases in Virginia to one a month. Because God knows I just have to buy 10 at a clip.
TenguPhule
To the NRA, that’s the same thing as being completely anti-gun.
Joe Beese
Without assault weapons, how will we keep him from despoiling our white maidens?
Cris v.3.1
I heard a campaign ad on the local country-and-western nostalgia station that went something like this:
And I thought, hoo-boy, here it comes, something about how Obama wants to take your guns away. Then they pulled the old switcheroo:
and so on. I don’t remember what else they hit him with, but it sounded like your stereotypical "Democrats hate hunters" ad. Except it was "McCain hates hunters."
The times they are a changin.
jake 4 that 1
This has been the NRA’s schtick since 4evar: 1. President DemoncRat takes your legally owned guns. 2. Violent brown hordes keep their illegally owned guns. 3. Civilization ends.
Tim F.
Rightwing groups always put up unflattering pics of Democratic politicians. Hell, this is nothing compared to the shots they dig up of Nancy Pelosi. Let’s not have a hair trigger about stuff like this.
Cris v.3.1
Right, but the Scary Black Man isn’t planning to ban glocks, he’s planning to take your guns and keep them for himself.
It’s just like how McCain talks about Obama "spreading the wealth." He actually phrases it as though Obama himself (not the government) will be getting your tax money and spending it where he pleases.
Josh Hueco
@Cris v.3.1:
Suh, they don’t know a thing ’bout country music in Indiana. The bestest vintage country radio station evah is in Hamilton, Texas:
KCLW 900 AM (you can also stream via the internet)
;-)
comrade rawshark
Are the ads stepping on the text for everybody or is it just me.For me the sidebar ads are in teh middle of the page and I can only see half of what I’m typing.
J.
Bang bang.
Make love, not war, I say. Of course, there be a lot of folks out there who don’t want you makin’ love to the black man.
pharniel
yes. yes the ads are
DOWN WITH THE ADS!
BURN!
and also, i wantz mah freedom.
freedom to won an m-60, freedom to open carry (vermont style) and freedom to surf whatever i want without the government watching.
SamFromUtah
@Punchy: I would think that a Scary Negro who WANTED to own guns would be the scare tactic.
They sure scared the piss out of St. Reagan back in ’67.
Dennis - SGMM
@comrade rawshark:
I’m not seeing that in either Firefox 3.0.3 or in Opera 9.61 running in Windows,
Cris v.3.1
@Josh Hueco:
Whoops, I linked to the wrong HANK FM. My Hank FM has a much shittier website. But at least it has nothing to do with the Colts.
mark
it’s so scary that the Newest InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position poll has Obama Leading 48 to 47 … In Georgia!
http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_1024_633.aspx
Southern Political Report
enjoy!
AkaDad
Obama is gonna take our guns and give them to Ayers, Wright, ACORN, and NAMBLA.
SamFromUtah
@AkaDad: Obama is gonna take our guns and give them to Ayers, Wright, ACORN, and NAMBLA.
Why would empowering NAMBLA bother repubs?
Tsulagi
That you approvingly used a link to factcheck.org proves you are in bed with the terrorists, likely in unreal America. See NRA’s Factcheck And Brady Campaign Share Same Sugar Daddy
NRA political leadership has gone batshit loony over Obama. They’ve budgeted $40 million this election cycle with 15 of it directly targeting Obama. Their premier site for ‘conservative’ gun thought in the political arena: GunBaNObama. Cute. There you would learn that even if the scary black man is not successful in taking or keeping you from buying new guns, he will outlaw your hunting ammo. Real America is at risk.
Esther
The Dem ads running here in CO contain some awesomely bad pictures of Marilyn Musgrave so I suppose it goes both ways. She doesn’t look scary, though, just old, frumpy and fat.
And yes, the ads are stepping all over the text on my screen, too.
jake 4 that 1
@SamFromUtah: The kids might start firing back.
Cris v.3.1
My Very Popular Democratic Governor, on gun rights and the Presidential race:
Looks like Brian believes that the third-party races may be the tipping point that delivers Montana to Obama.
Paul L.
B.S.
Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson Issues Open Letter to Nation’s Sportsmen Regarding Obama’s History in the Illinois Senate
As for the Hackcheck Factcheck article linked to where they refute the NRA’s claims by uncritically quoting from the Obama campaign.
FactCheck plays Partisan Politics
greynoldsct00
I’m seeing it just fine with Firefox…
Nick Istre
And this is why I outright refuse to join the NRA, as I just find that they are practically a wing of the Republican Party. Gun Owners of America is an organization I can give a little more respect; they trash both Obama and McCain relatively fairly when it comes to gun rights legislation. Hell, they used to have an article on the site stating that McCain might actually be worse than Obama when it comes to gun rights (mainly due to people actually remembering the Constitution exists when there’s a Democrat in the Oval Office…) while endorsing Ron Paul.
Still, GOA’s seemingly "no compromise" stance isn’t something I agree with either.
Paul L.
More on Factcheck and the NRA.
Even funnier Barack Obama supports gun ownership rights is so strong that the former Hangun Control Inc. endorses him.
Jim And Sarah Brady, Brady Campaign Endorse Barack Obama And Joe Biden
James Hare
Paul L.
Generally folks here don’t take well to mind-readers. If Obama harbors this "contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner" it’s certainly been something he’s kept well-hidden. Really, is the best that trolls can come up with? One lobbyist from a pro-gun organization disparaging a Democrat?
Real good rebuttal there buddy. Keep up the good work — in 12 days you can start writing about black helicopters and nonsense like that.
Cris v.3.1
@Paul L.:
From Richard Pearson’s letter:
The ISRA’s website isn’t responding at the moment. Care to back up Pearson’s hair-on-fire warnings with the text of some actual bills?
White Maidens
Tell me, it it twoo what they say about you guys?
Oh, it’s twoo! It’s TWOO!
Paul L.
@James Hare:
Bitter Gun-Clinging Organization Points out Obama’s Real Record on 2nd Amendment
gbear
Doesn’t streaming an AM station create a vortex that shreds the fabric of time?
Josh Hueco
@Cris v.3.1:
Now that’s more like it, pardner. (spits tobacco, misses ground, hits own boot by mistake)
gbear
Ahh, Paul L is here.
scroll…
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Josh Hueco
@gbear:
Only if there’s a warp core breach.
TenguPhule
And what is so controversial about it?
We don’t need random people pulling out guns in the middle of the street and getting cops killed because they can’t tell who’s the crook and who’s shooting at the crook.
bvac
Oooh, does this mean they’re going to update their anti-gun control graphic novel? [warning:
PDF linkfucked up shit]comrade scott
Fixed.
You think I’m kidding? The few people here who don’t live in the pro-birth, single-issue ghetto live in the one right next door, the HILLARY CLINTON WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!
Loneoak
Wow … that sure is some crazy talk. Sounds like … a constitutional lawyer.
One of the most fucked up aspects of our political culture is how impossible it is to get single-issue conservatives to even imagine developing a broad, compromised consensus on an issue that would ultimately be to their advantage. Here we have a constitutional lawyer who represents a more or less recent consensus among liberals that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. You would think the NRA would say "Hey, here’s a dude we can work with. We still want to vote for the other guy, but let’s play loyal opposition for once." But, nope, it’s all scary black buck wants to take yer guns. Fucking morans.
Glocksman
And what is so controversial about it?
We don’t need random people pulling out guns in the middle of the street and getting cops killed because they can’t tell who’s the crook and who’s shooting at the crook.
Paul L.
@TenguPhule:
Progressives must have been right about Bush turning the US into a police state. Police at every location where a crime is being commited.
I have been looking for someone to defend Mrs. Jones.
The great constitutional lawyer/scholar who when the Heller case was being decided say he could not comment because he had not read the briefings.
Glocksman
WTF?
I had the quote inside the tags.
gbear
@Josh Hueco:
Oh… Yea… For sure. I should have remembered that.
Tom65
[Garrett Morris] I’m gon-na…get me a gun and shoot all the whiteys I see…get me a gun and shoot all the whiteys I see…When I shoot all the whiteys then whitey won’t bother meee…..[/Garrett Morris]
ArtV
If a Democrat came out and said I will never ban or take away your guns, and held true to that promise, the NRA would be out of business.
As with so many right-wing outfits, No Fear = No Money.
Apsaras
"Officer, what are you doing? Yes, I yelled ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre. No, there was no actual fire. What? Against the law? You, sir, have forgotten the constitution! I have an absolute freedom of speech! Facist! Facist!"
Blue Raven
Lady, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but would you please quit sucking on my thumb?
Geeno
It’s been tried – it doesn’t work. Even if ALL Democrats EVERYWHERE pledged to repeal all weapons control even allowing people to own nuclear weapons, the NRA would still advertise that.
Jasper
The FACT is the Bush administration favors reasonable restrictions on firearms. Like, say, machine guns or carrying guns in a school zone, silencers, carrying handguns on a plane, and any other federal law on the books. It’s a myth that one party is for total gun freedom and the other confiscating them. Both sides favor reasonable restrictions and occasionally disagree on the margins.
I am more worried about an administration that says it can jail citizens without charge, counsel or trial than Obama seizing all our guns. With the Bush philosophy, gun rights are meaningless.
FWIW, Gun Owers of America gives McCain an F- for both 2006 and 2004.
pto892
If this was the only difference between Obama and McCain I might be inclined to consider it-but it isn’t now, is it? The fact is an Obama administration would only be able to nibble around the edges on the gun issue without congressional support-and the congressional Dems are going to have bigger fish to fry. Not only that, the congressional Dems are publicly split on the issue anyway-some (Pelosi) would probably love a strict gun control bill and others (Webb) would fight it tooth and nail. I don’t see gun control being the overriding issue anyways-for some reason economic meltdown, a government that spies on its own people, the right to habeus corpus, hell just competent adult leadership is more important right now. If Obama starts making gun control an issue I will be the first to fight his administration over it but for the moment I want adults in charge.
TenguPhule
Admit it, you flunked elementry english, didn’t you?
tofubo
i just want to be able to legally obtain whatever the blackwater mercenaries walking down my mother-in-law’s street in new orleans had, nothing less