Pro-Gun group working to derail healthcare reform.

[onehandle]

Tonight, Ed Schultz interviewed the Executive Director of 'Gun Owners of America.' They claim that healthcare reform will enable Obama to 'take away your guns.'

This is an article about the 'issue.'

Is the Senate health plan anti-gun?

The Senate's 2,074-page health care bill doesn't mention guns, but some gun owners are worried certain provisions could eventually be used to discourage or even restrict gun ownership as part of a government effort to influence behavior as it broadens its control over the health care system.

The day before the Senate passed the $848 billion health bill on a party-line vote, the Virginia-based Gun Owners of America sent out a mass alert to its 300,000 members, warning them that the legislation "will most likely dump your gun-related health data into a government database. ... This includes any firearms-related information your doctor has gleaned or any determination of post traumatic stress disorder or something similar, that can preclude you from owning firearms."

The group warned that new "wellness and prevention" programs that would permit employers to offer employees lower premiums for healthier lifestyles do not include anything that would prohibit "rabidly anti-gun Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from decreeing that 'no guns' is somehow healthier."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Senate-health-plan-stokes-Big-Brother-fears-8577647-71875287.html

This is the group:
http://gunowners.org/
They link to the article in their 'Legislative Action Center' as a top issue.

Video interview on The Ed Show with right-wing gun-loving whackjob:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34138440#34138440

[bluestateguy]

1. Ah yes. The GOA. The group that thinks the NRA is too "moderate"

I'm as pro-gun as the next guy, and I oppose gun control.

These people are nutjobs.

[katandmoon]

2. Embrace it, gun worshippers.

[Arkana]

3. Everything in the world will cause THAR GUNZ to be taken away.

There's no reasoning with people who think they need weaponized anthrax for duck hunting.

[JimWis]

4. For my whole long life, I have listened to that crap - "They are

going to take our guns away". Never knew anyone yet who owns guns, who have had them taken away. I of course heard of guns being taken away when an individual broke the law with said gun. I watched that idiot on Ed show tonight. Health care will cause their guns to be taken away?? These clowns get stupider by the minute. Arrggg.