It's time to begin isolating the NRA...
We see the serious beginnings of this with Enterprise, Symantec, the First National Bank of Omaha, and SimpliSafe, today...
Gotta love it, when the Big Boys begin shunning the Obstructionists and standing alongside The Children's Crusade that now unfolding...
The NRA is being repositioned as a Toxic Brand...
And we may finally have reached a tipping point...
Good...
It's about time...
This is delusional, and a bit scary...
It is not delusional in the slightest, although I'm glad you find it scary.
...What does the NRA have to do with the Parkland school shooting?...
Your Honor, the Prosecution rests.
...The NRA has been urging stronger security in schools for years...
Locking the barn door after the horses have bolted.
...Is it the NRA's fault that the FBI and the local police failed to follow up on clear leads and red flags that should have prevented the shooting many times over?...
Nope.
It is the NRA's fault that they bribed legislators to allow continued access to assault weapons by those under 21.
... And what if Cruz had used a car? Would you be saying it's about time we isolate the AAA auto club and all car makers?
Kinda difficult to get a car into a classroom or up a set of stairs or to quickly move from room to room in the opening seconds of any such attack.
So you don't think that all people should be treated equally under the eyes of the law?
Some should have more rights than others, that rights are not inherent, and that government can arbitrarily deny rights to any group of citizens it wants? How about if that group someone decides is "dangerous", is Jewish, Black, women, etc.?
How are you then not also justifying the attempt by someone else to implement the Holocaust, slavery, etc.?
By what authority could anyone simply deny those from 18 to 21 their rights?
There is no such laws or authority to draw on.
Government would have to just make it up out of thin air, so that what is to prevent them from making up whatever they want, whenever they want?
Please read the definition of an authoritarian regime:
{...
Authoritarianism is a form of
government characterized by strong central power and limited
political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional
accountability under an authoritarian regime.
[1] Juan Linz's influential 1964 description of authoritarianism
[2] characterized authoritarian
political systems by four qualities:
- Limited political pluralism, that is such regimes place constraints on political institutions and groups like legislatures, political parties and interest groups;
- A basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency;
- Minimal social mobilization most often caused by constraints on the public such as suppression of political opponents and anti-regime activity;
- Informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting powers.[3]
...}
Gun control in general, and arbitrary age restrictions specifically, fit all the descriptions of an illegal authoritarian regime.
