Colmes writes: "The National Rifle Association has an extensive enemies list, and I am, frankly, insulted that I am not on it. The list is sorely lacking."
The NRA's enemy list is growing. (photo: CREDO)
Dear NRA, Please Put Me on Your Enemies List
02 February 13
he National Rifle Association has an extensive enemies list, and I am, frankly, insulted that I am not on it. The list is sorely lacking. Politicians favoring gun regulations are absent, as are this thing we have in the digital era called websites. Addicting Info would be a nice addition, not to mention Occupy the NRA. I have a little site called Liberaland that isn't exactly an NRA press shop. Maybe if they spent less time playing shoot-em-up and gave The Google an occasional whirl, they'd know what century it is. Some of the people on the list are actually dead. I loved Nora Ephron and Jill Clayburgh, but they're not currently setting the world on fire. Nor is the late soap star John Ingle. I may not be the biggest name, nor am I the most important voice speaking out against the NRA's foolish, out-of-touch positions, but at least I'm operating above room temperature. HELLO!
Some of the NRA's "enemies" are groups like Hadassah, the U.S. Catholic Conference, and the YWCA. At least all major religions are covered. Then you have your evil, gun-hating corporations like Sara Lee. Sara Lee? I suppose their new slogan will have to be "Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee, Except The National Rifle Association." The Kansas City Royals made the list. I never knew they took a position on gun control. And there's the more-predictable Ben and Jerry's (new flavor: Glock-y Road). Under entertainers you have your Rob Reiners and Barbra Streisands, right along with Boyz II Men and the Temptations. The Temptations? Really? There have been at least 22 members of the Temptations since the group was formed in 1960, and some of them, like the beloved Ephron and Clayburgh, are dead. But again, as for being on the NRA enemies list, breathing is not a prerequisite.
I think I'd fit in nicely on the part of the list featuring those who editorialize about guns. This is another way I have a leg up on The Temptations - who I don't think usually sing about lethal weapons - and those who are dead, who have not lately weighed in. Since it's alphabetical, I could be seamlessly tucked in between Marie Cocco and E.J. Dionne, Jr. if it wouldn't be too much trouble.
If anybody keeping score for the NRA sees this, thank you very much for your consideration.
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R easonable
A ccepted
NRA + GOP = Death
So, you find the Second Amendment objectionable!
Do you not find the First Amendment worth fighting for?
How about a woman's right to an abortion?
What I find MOST objectionable about almost every response on this forum is their intolerance!
If it is not a RIGHT that you subscribe to then it is not worth a damn!
Well, I am a older male and have no need for an abortion, so let's eliminate abortions...tak e a POLL and I bet I would win by a large majority!
BUT, you would object, and that shows your bias!
Either fight for everyone's rights or see your favorites eroded!
Second Amendment: thumbs down
First Amendment: thumbs up
Abortion rights: thumbs up
PLEASE put up a sign at your house that you are a "Gun Free Zone" and you do not want to be protected by firearms!
Idiots for gun free zones deserve to be preyed upon by criminals!
Please call 911 and wait while you are raped or murdered, but don't come crying to the supporters of the 2nd Amendment!!
I will nominate YOU for theis years Darwin Award!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Their true enemies are all rational and thinking people.
N R A Not really aWare
Nut jobs Raving Aimlessly
In Bush's version of it, the guns had "tracking devices"--minia ture radio transmitters to find the guns later, and arrest their bosses. Mexico HAS strict gun-control laws, and we can joke later about their effectiveness.
Obama's version REMOVED the tracking devices, literally giving Mexican criminals untraceable guns and increasing Mexicans' access to America, declaring American National Parks off-limits TO AMERICANS!
By taking off the tracking devices alone, he ruined the whole operation. You cannot compare the two!
"Blaming guns for Newtown is like blaming airplanes for 9/11".
"Tens of thousands of people die in accidents every year, yet we don't call for eliminating cars".
These anemic analogies, shallow and simplistic, must be challenged:
Airplanes, when used as designed and intended, carry millions of passengers in speed, comfort and, above all... safety. As pilots often remind their customers upon touch-down: "Thank you for flying with us. You have just completed the safest leg of your journey". After exceedingly infrequent tragic fatalities, FAA officials scour the site for clues to make such events even rarer.
Seat belts, air bags, ABS, traction control, crumple zones make current vehicles safer than ever. Fatalities are mainly due to distracted/impa ired driving, road conditions, excessive speed, and occasionally mechanical failure. But used as designed and intended, passengers travel safely.
Guns are designed to fire high-velocity projectiles that inflict structural damage... marked to considerable to massive... on the objects they strike.
Aim, accuracy are supposedly esteemed virtues to gun enthusiasts. Perhaps, then, that leading phrase can be expanded a bit: "Guns don't kill people. People, using guns as they are designed and intended to be used, kill people.
If you are so scared of your government that you need to have an armory then maybe you should find another nation that fails to scare you so badly is my response to the silly guys.
Good guys can use guns to kill bad guys, or bad guys can use them to kill good guys.
But if you ever DO find a gun running around and aiming itself, everyone from the skeeziest tabloid to the highest scientific journals will be throwing you piles of money for the photos!
This according to FBI statistics (2012 stats should soon be available) at
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20
So, a corollary: "Guns don't kill people; people kill people. And when they do, they likely reach for a gun".
Beverly Smith
Me! Me! Over here, Wayne!! Yoohoo!!
After all, if it wasn't for them, mouth breather LaPierre & company would still be comfortably hiding behind their flawed constitutional arguments.
49 days; 1,492 gun deaths... more than 30 a day.
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/428-foreclosure/15298-focus-how-many-people-have-been-killed-by-guns-since-newtown
God bless America.
But I agree with eliminating gangs by any means necessary. Sadly, the only means available are guns and blades, and blades are a little out of place in this era.
Bad sides of town where even if you survive, the cops don't bother with, "What did the assailant look like?", replacing it with "Why were you in THAT part of town?"
Sadly, this means that there ARE places in America that are off-limits to Americans, de facto, if not de juro!
You and the NRA's convoluted reasoning can't.
When you mature a little bit more you might take a look around you and adopt a less blinkered attitude. What makes you go to such places? Lookin' for target practice, kicks or just to reinforce your stereotyping of certain people in certain areas without knowing why they are there and like that in the first place?
I come from, and hope to return to, a country where the cops don't carry guns but when called for they are issued to marksmen who are experts in their use.
I'm an ol' scrapper but guns seem to me to be coward's weapons. "Self defense" is a myth given the current surveillance and firepower of the militarized police. I'd like to see you and your high-powered popguns against a well trained SWAT team and their backup.
Your broad brush use of the term "Liberal" betrays your lack of rational maturity.
Catch ya in a few years.
And I won't vote for any politician who won't stand up for those rules and recognize my right to go about life affirming activities without fear of getting shot up!
That should make me scary enough to get on LaPierre's hit list!
I will only believe that if you tell me you have no credit card, have never taken out a loan, have no bank account, no I.D., have I made myself clear?
You are already in some sort of data bank so you have given up your info. Okay maybe the government doesn't have it all but if you have any of what I just named, you are already on or in a file somewhere. I wouldn't worry so much about the government as much as I would the hackers though. By the way, to get n here, you gave up some info, whoops!
That way, they can pontificate on it from a little bubble of safety that no criminal shall breach alive...The rest of us, though, don't have that little luxury, and resent such idiots telling us we'll be safe without some means to defend ourselves from physically and/or numerically superior thugs.
One of the funniest and clever posts regarding guns and the NRA and from Alan Colmes ever. Thank you Sir.
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