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NRA Is Like a Union?
RECEIVED Wed., July 2, 2008
Dear Editor,
Steven McCloud, in a letter to the editor [“Postmarks” online, June 30], makes several statements worth commenting on. Mr. McCloud said, "The NRA is the Republican Party" and that the NRA is spending money "solely to portray Barack Obama as the candidate that will take away your guns." Mr. McCloud also claims this to be nothing more than vote-getting scare tactics and then emphatically says, "No one is taking away your gun."
To start with, the NRA is not the Republican Party. Think of the NRA as a union: We all like unions, right? The NRA rightfully supports candidates that they feel have their members' best interests in mind. If a Democrat has a track record of supporting the Second Amendment, the NRA will back that candidate. It could be said that the NRA is not "portraying" Obama as the candidate that will take away guns, but that Obama's own statements bring into question his sincerity when he says he supports the right of Americans to bear arms. Like when he recently said that people cling to guns out of fear. Or how he has said that we (that's you and I) shouldn't be able to have concealed-carry licenses, or perhaps the time he said he was against citizens owning semi-auto firearms. Google it.
While Obama won't wave a magic wand and make guns go away, he would as president be able to make Supreme Court nominations. The recent Supreme Court ruling against the D.C. gun ban was a 5-4 split. It's very likely that an Obama justice would've upheld the gun ban and eviscerated the Second Amendment in the process.
As for the "No one is taking away your gun" comment: Thankfully Mr. McCloud is right. But be assured, there are people actively working to do just that. There are people that just don't like guns, they don't understand the wisdom of the founders of this nation, and they cling to a hatred of firearms out of fear. Sounds like Obama to me.
Steven McCloud, in a letter to the editor [“Postmarks” online, June 30], makes several statements worth commenting on. Mr. McCloud said, "The NRA is the Republican Party" and that the NRA is spending money "solely to portray Barack Obama as the candidate that will take away your guns." Mr. McCloud also claims this to be nothing more than vote-getting scare tactics and then emphatically says, "No one is taking away your gun."
To start with, the NRA is not the Republican Party. Think of the NRA as a union: We all like unions, right? The NRA rightfully supports candidates that they feel have their members' best interests in mind. If a Democrat has a track record of supporting the Second Amendment, the NRA will back that candidate. It could be said that the NRA is not "portraying" Obama as the candidate that will take away guns, but that Obama's own statements bring into question his sincerity when he says he supports the right of Americans to bear arms. Like when he recently said that people cling to guns out of fear. Or how he has said that we (that's you and I) shouldn't be able to have concealed-carry licenses, or perhaps the time he said he was against citizens owning semi-auto firearms. Google it.
While Obama won't wave a magic wand and make guns go away, he would as president be able to make Supreme Court nominations. The recent Supreme Court ruling against the D.C. gun ban was a 5-4 split. It's very likely that an Obama justice would've upheld the gun ban and eviscerated the Second Amendment in the process.
As for the "No one is taking away your gun" comment: Thankfully Mr. McCloud is right. But be assured, there are people actively working to do just that. There are people that just don't like guns, they don't understand the wisdom of the founders of this nation, and they cling to a hatred of firearms out of fear. Sounds like Obama to me.
Hestonly yours,
Patrick Zepeda
Patrick Zepeda