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to hell with the NRA!
7 years ago
In my belief. the motivations of the NRA currently is to create situations that maximize gun sales.
To do this they ensure through legislation the idea that just anyone at any time can purchase a gun. They have stood against laws that would have made it more difficult for those with mental health issues to own a gun. The other thing they do is help to work their members into a regular panic that criminals are rampant and everywhere and the govt are after them to take their weapons.
In my state they helped get behind a law that removed the age limit to the use of a gun. The idea was that the limit of 11 years old was not fair to kids even younger who wanted to go hunting with their parents. Conversely, there has been incidents of 'well trained' youths who had been trained in gun safety who then suddenly shot another child out of anger.
The NRA also actively creates a hyper aggressive divisiveness among its members by telling them that those who ask for sensible gun control are extreme radicals that in the end want to get the ATF to storm the home of gun owners and take all their weapons. Even moreso, their videos portray this idea that blacks, gays, womens rights supporters are on the opposite side of gun lovers and that they are creating riots in the streets over not just guns but social justice and apparently free speech. They in fact are the ones who have created a toxic environment by playing on the fears and prejudices of their members.
All this done to capitalize on gun sales and support a whole industry.
I do not support the NRA at all and I constantly will vote against their fav leaders when I can. I will also speak out to anyone I can whenever appropriate to tell them that the NRA is destructive to cohesion and safety in our society so long as they interfere in our politics and our social fabric to create hyper divisiveness and maximize gun sales.
To do this they ensure through legislation the idea that just anyone at any time can purchase a gun. They have stood against laws that would have made it more difficult for those with mental health issues to own a gun. The other thing they do is help to work their members into a regular panic that criminals are rampant and everywhere and the govt are after them to take their weapons.
In my state they helped get behind a law that removed the age limit to the use of a gun. The idea was that the limit of 11 years old was not fair to kids even younger who wanted to go hunting with their parents. Conversely, there has been incidents of 'well trained' youths who had been trained in gun safety who then suddenly shot another child out of anger.
The NRA also actively creates a hyper aggressive divisiveness among its members by telling them that those who ask for sensible gun control are extreme radicals that in the end want to get the ATF to storm the home of gun owners and take all their weapons. Even moreso, their videos portray this idea that blacks, gays, womens rights supporters are on the opposite side of gun lovers and that they are creating riots in the streets over not just guns but social justice and apparently free speech. They in fact are the ones who have created a toxic environment by playing on the fears and prejudices of their members.
All this done to capitalize on gun sales and support a whole industry.
I do not support the NRA at all and I constantly will vote against their fav leaders when I can. I will also speak out to anyone I can whenever appropriate to tell them that the NRA is destructive to cohesion and safety in our society so long as they interfere in our politics and our social fabric to create hyper divisiveness and maximize gun sales.
It will be interesting when police-heavy culture meets gun activists. The unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
I can't think of any good reasons why kids should have access to guns. The excuse that they'd be used for hunting just doesn't work well. I am willing to bet that 99 percent of all guns that are in the hands of kids are not designed for hunting at all. People hunt with rifles, not with hand guns or assault rifles.
Kids, and especially teenagers, are not exactly known for their ability to make good and wise judgments. Sure, there are the uncommon exceptions, but must people under around 20 years old are driven more by impulse, emotions and hormones, than by wisdom.
My personal opinion is that no one needs them. If people insist that they have guns, they should at least have to go through something like a mandatory six month mental evaluation and safety training period. And they should be required to pass a mental test every year and maintain a clean record after that to keep their guns or even to buy ammunition. There is no reason a high school student should be able to simply walk into a store and buy a gun. The percentage of teenagers who are stable and responsible is simply too low. It's bad enough with adults buying them.
The real problem is that our culture teaches people to value materials and property more than life, especially if it's the life of a stranger, or someone of a different color, or someone you simply don't like. That in itself is horrible. If people started valuing life more than material items, many of the reasons for using guns would vanish. If someone breaks into your house to steal your TV, your money or your car, it's not worth taking their life over it. There is no material thing in this world that is worth taking anyone's life for.
There's plenty that can be done that will bring violence down and please both gun owners and those that want gun control, but neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will do anything to help because both sides have their ulterior motives that go against what everyone in the country really wants; not to mention tensions between both the left and the right are so high, that any discussions lead to incessant bickering between the two with nothing accomplished.
As for the polarization of the world from right to left, I once used to try and act as a mediator and peacemaker on the issues. I wanted to help bridge the gaps. But seeing the persecution of GLBTQ, the rise of the kkk groups once more, and the destruction of the environment has lead me to a point I only want to fight now. I cant be the mediator anymore, I have so many unanswered hard questions and demands to the oposing side and I feel that the issues are too dire now to just be patient and take baby steps. I guess mediators are needed but im far too upset and impassioned to be that anymore.