On Tuesday, New York State passed the toughest gun law in the country, providing a model for other states to follow. On Wednesday, President Obama announced his plans for more stringent federal gun control laws, including more intensive background checks prior to the sale of guns and preventing weapons from falling into the hands of the mentally ill.
But following the announcements by New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Obama, the NRA laced up their boxing gloves and made it publicly known that they intend to fight dirty and in opposition until the bitter end. Yesterday, they released a new commercial aimed at President Obama and his family, that many are calling a “below the belt” move:
The NRA and a surprising number of Americans prefer the status quo when it comes to guns. Some say they believe the government is conspiring to take their guns away so that the average citizen would be powerless during some make-believe future war. Such militia groups want to stay armed and ready for the day when they say they will have a shoot out with their own government. These disturbed individuals are so convinced of a coming war, that they even believe the Sandy Hook shooting was a government staged event aimed at swaying public sentiment in favor of greater gun control.
Watch CNN’s Anderson Cooper discuss the insanity we are facing when it comes to guns in America:
As I expressed yesterday, Extremists will almost always take their EXTREMISMS too d*mn far.
The NRA leadership (as well as the GOP leadership for that matter) has engaged in some pretty disturbing, dangerous and, quite frankly, EVIL sh*t.. They say and do the most reprehensible things for the pupose of catering to their "base" …(NRA-gun manufacturers and gun-nuts) (GOP- racists and right-wing nuts).
I suspect that most Americans become more and more repelled by the NRA and the GOP with each and every passing day. And yet neither the NRA nor the GOP can help themselves. They're caught in a kind of self-imposed DEATH-grip and they can NOT let go!