11-20-2013, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by L-Pink
The NRA exists for one reason, it's members support it for that one reason and that is to keep Federal gun laws as is. No reductions from current regulations. That is not enabling gun violence.
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Tell it to the victims of gun violence... 
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The NRA leaders like to speak on behalf of law-abiding gun owners and they often argue that any infringement on gun owner's freedoms, including background checks or limits on the types of guns that can be purchased, are unfair burdens placed upon lawful gun owners.
However, the NRA's objections may stem in part from the fact that many members of the NRA leadership are not in fact law-abiding gun owners.
The NRA board is populated with a smattering of criminals whose objection to gun laws might be rooted not in their concern for law-abiding gun owners, but their desire to protect fellow criminals. Let us meet the criminals in high places within the NRA's leadership:
Harlon Carter: Murderer, Former NRA President
At age 17, Harlon Carter shot and killed a 15-year old Latino boy named Ramon Casiano in Laredo, Texas.
Ted Nugent: Serial poacher and wannabee presidential assassin
Nobody screams "law-abiding" gun owner louder than NRA board member Ted Nugent.
In 2010, Nugent was charged with eleven misdemeanor poaching crimes in California for engaging in illegal hunting methods. He plea bargained and plead guilty to just two of the poaching charges. He also illegally poached a black bear in Alaska, violating the state's seasonal limit of only shooting one bear. Nugent was fined 10,000 dollars and placed on probation for killing the bear unlawfully.
When the motor city madman is not illegally shooting wildlife or singing misogynistic rock songs, he is making thinly veiled threats on the Democratic political leaders of America. One of his political rants while holding a gun in the air was "Obama, he's a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun."
Don Young, the Republican Congressman from Alaska sits on the NRA's Board of Directors. Although this may seem like a conflict of interest, it is apparently legal. However, this is certainly not the first time Mr. Young has been surrounded by questions regarding his ethical conduct.
He has successfully weathered several Congressional investigations regarding political corruption, but his most dangerous action may have been signing Schaeffer Cox's petition justifying the overthrow of the US government. Cox was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a plot that included conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, and arson. While Young was not implicated in the plot, he did sign Cox's seditious petition at an "open carry" event in Alaska.
David Keene: NRA President and road rage's poster father?
Well technically David Keene is not a criminal, but his son David Keene, Jr, who was hospitalized with "severe emotional problems" at least seven times in his youth, was sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted murder when he tried to shoot a fellow motorist in a road rage incident.
Although this crime is not the responsibility of Keene Sr. it does beg the question as to why pulling a gun was apparently his son's way of handling Beltway traffic problems. In Keene's desire to protect law abiding owners from the "bad guys" with guns, he apparently overlooked that his son might be one of the "bad guys" with a gun.
Of course, it is not the gun's fault, but clearly the parents should have taught the young man proper gun safety and highway etiquette. Therefore, we should not blame the President of the NRA. Well except for the fact that he is the parent, which then complicates that whole line of argument a bit.
Bob Brown: Accomplice to multiple murders?
Bob Brown's claim to fame was that he was once editor of Soldier of Fortune magazine. During the 1980s and 1990s over half a dozen contract murders were traced back to advertisements run in the Soldier of Fortune magazine.
The magazine ran ads for contract killers with titles like "GUN FOR HIRE: 37-year-old professional mercenary desires jobs. Vietnam veteran. Discrete and very private. Body guard, courier, and other special skills. All jobs considered." and the less subtle "?Married man looking for an expert in poisons to kill his wife.?
One family of a victim of a contract killing was awarded a 4.37 million dollar judgement against the magazine. Astonishingly, the magazine refused to accept any responsibility for the murders, claiming, ?We're as culpable as any newspaper which accepts an ad from a used-car salesman and doesn't go out to check the condition of his brakes.?
Magazine ads for contract killers don't kill people, people kill people apparently. Small wonder Bob Brown became a perfect fit for the NRA and the gun cult that refuses to accept any responsibility at all for any form of gun violence.
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