Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Told ya so...

After the Supreme Court affirmed that individuals have a constitutional right to bear arms last week I wrote,

The Supreme Court decision in Heller will not, as some would like to believe, move the gun debate beyond fear-mongering about "gun confiscation." To believe that Heller will have such an effect assumes that the over-heated rhetoric from the NRA and fringe elements about the U.N. and gun confiscation was grounded in logic and reality in the first place. It was not, thus Heller will change nothing in that regard.


And what do we read today?

The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.

“Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, [the District of Columbia v. Heller decision] could be taken away from us in the future,” Chris Cox, head of the NRA’s political arm, told Politico

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The NRA has never been bound by reality, logic or reason in the past, why should they start now?

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