I smoked for nearly 40 years. I smoked after I was diagnosed with End Stage Lung Disease. I’d pull out the oxygen tubes and light up. Once the tubing caught on fire and it burned a line in the carpet before I stomped it out. I was a “I’ll smoke if I damn well please!” kind of person. But even I knew better than to take medical advice from the tobacco companies. And I certainly didn’t like it when Rep Boehner Handed Out Tobacco Lobbyist Checks on House floor right before a Tobacco Subsidy vote:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3a_1284581246
Why then don’t people object when the National Rifle Association brags that they control elections? The NRA Even Bragged That They’ll Work Out Of President GW Bush’s Oval Office. And they did.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/050400-01.htm
In Fact the WAR ON TERRORISM (Which is war on a tactic so it will never end)has been great for business! In 2007 there were 90 guns for every 100 persons. That was before the “Obama gonna get your guns” Fear Campaign.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109260004
The gun lobby funds Republican candidates has always warned that “(fill in the blank Democrat) will take your guns!
Fox Noose had this NRA picture on it’s website for years. It was still there the day of Gabby Giffords shooting while Shep Smith was wondering “Why people believe President Obama is going to take you guns?”
Did he take guns? NO.
No instead, Obama has allowed, on his watch, guns to be carried for the first time in the US’s national parks. He has watched as the courts have stripped Washington and Chicago – two cities troubled by high gun crime rates – of their stringent controls on handguns.
When you tell gun rights people that they tell you that according to National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, the Obama administration’s lack of action on gun control issues only proves just how diabolically anti-gun they are.
If you’ll believe that then Mitt Romney is downplaying his Mormon religion because Job One will be mandatory conversion to Mormonism.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-and-nras-lapierre-warn-insidiou
Now, I know that controlling guns will NOT END VIOLENCE! I also knowthat the way the NRA reads the Constitution we should all own WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION AND A FEW DRONES. I’m not taking about that. I’m talking about the power of the NRA and the lies they tell to keep us afraid and shooting each other. The NRA is about selling guns. And selling influence.
Does it ever occur to these gun loving Ameriicans that they call them gun “DEALERS” fo a reason.
Jared Lee Loughner was suspended from college and had been in trouble with the police. And yet he could buy a gun and go on to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and kill six others.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/28/us-world-firearms-idUSL2834893820070828
AMERICA KICK THE HABIT!
