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Originally posted by doober
regardless of how the facts are presented. Is america not a gun happy nation willing to back up their shit with bullets almost anytime?
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Yes american's solve problem with guns too readily. The cause is bad gun control / registration laws.
Instead of police arresting criminal using guns they waste time dealing with stupid gun registration laws. Canada spends more money per capita on police services, and violent gun crime did not significantly increase until the liberals spent 5 billion for their new gun registration law. Getting people to register their weapons sounds like a good idea until you realize that you have to take police officer away from investigating crimes and patroling the streets to enforce the paper work requirements of this new law.
Remember the clip of Heston holding a gun and saying " from my cold dead hands" well the event that was run never had that line. The NRA dropped all their fun events (mixers) and focused their attention on documenting how if the current laws were used the killers at colinbine would never have gotten a gun in the first place.
Moore deliberately misrepresented parts of Heston's speach to make him and the NRA look like gun toting yahoos who didn't give a dam about people getting killed
"NRA members are in city hall, Fort Carson, NORAD, the Air Force Academy and the Olympic Training Center. And yes, NRA members are surely among the police and fire and SWAT team heroes who risked their lives to rescue the students at Columbine.
Don't come here? We're already here. This community is our home. Every community in America is our home. We are a 128-year-old fixture of mainstream America. The Second Amendment ethic of lawful, responsible firearm ownership spans the broadest cross section of American life imaginable.
So, we have the same right as all other citizens to be here. To help shoulder the grief and share our sorrow and to offer our respectful, reassured voice to the national discourse that has erupted around this tragedy."
Became "Don't come here? We're already here" spliced between the pleas of a mayor that NRA should not come to denver to make Heston sound like a jackass
Heston's message was that it is ignorant to make gun owners unwelcome in a place where murdering thugs happened to perpetrate evil with guns. Heston reached out to those angry at the very existence and presence of the NRA to not couple violent gun killers with simple gun owners, and not to demonize those you disagree with.