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In reply to the discussion: It's very simple: If you want new gun control laws, you need the cooperation of legal gun owners. [View all]billh58
(6,635 posts)describes the misinformation being promoted by the NRA Gun Humpers. The "millions and millions of regular, responsible gun owners" did NOT defeat proposed gun control legislation. The NRA used blood money from its corporate donors to buy politicians from both political Parties (right wingers) and would not even allow discussion of any gun control legislation. Average gun owners spoke up in a nationwide poll and overwhelmingly supported the proposed legislation.
The fucking NRA represents less than 5% of American gun owners, yet presumes to speak for all of them. There is plenty of common ground between gun owners and gun control advocates, but the NRA stifles any opportunity for dialog through bought and paid for politicians and political blackmail. Not only at the national level, but at the state and local political levels as well. They are insidious.
That myth about ALL gun owners being associated with the thinking of a few die hard, "cold dead hands" gun fetishists is absolute bullshit, but the NRA and its apologists keep promoting it. When you, and others like you actually believe that they have the right to speak for ALL gun owners, it is you who are creating the divide between average Americans, and doing the anti-American NRA's bidding. Most level-headed gun owners know who level-headed gun control proponents are talking about when they use terms like "Gun Humpers," and "delicate flowers," and many of them agree with the sentiments. The Wayne LaPierre cultists know who they are, and they are NOT "average" gun owners.