Come and get me, tough guy.
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I have seen the light. After all these years, I now agree
that it’s fruitless to give the benefit of the doubt to people who are so
obviously corrupt, so clearly malevolent, so bent on hurting innocent people
for their own sick gain.
No more due process in the clear-cut case of insidious
terrorism. When the facts are so clearly before all Americans, for the whole
world to see, why bother with this country’s odious and cumbersome system of
justice? Send the guilty monsters directly to Guantanamo Bay for all eternity
and let them rot in their own mental squalor.
No, no, no. Not the wannabe sick kid who blew up the Boston
marathon or the freak that’s mailing ricin-laced letters to the president. I’m
talking about the real terrorist threat here in America: the National Rifle
Association.
I’m not laughing. What the NRA did last week was no laughing
matter. Aurora is a community that knows only too well the downside of prolific
guns, of military weapons in the hands of crazy people, of a nation that’s gone
so far off base when it comes to firearm regulations that common sense is
beyond our reach.
If you don’t read the thousands of newspapers in this
country that came out with their own editorial guns a’blazing last week after a
minority of craven, lying, sniveling, cowardly U.S. senators cheated the very
premise of American government to back their masters at the NRA, let me offer
you a few choice excerpts:
“But now, the cowards defied the will of most Americans and
helped the hardliners and hypocrites prevail. They allowed themselves to be
cowed into submission by a loud but very unrepresentative minority of NRA
members who threatened retribution against anyone who voted in favor of the
bill.”
Just another liberal rag in a liberal wasteland toeing the
liberal line? No, that was the Dallas Morning News.
“It would be shameful, except too many of our politicians
have no shame. Again, the gun bill showed that … Nobody wants the mentally ill
having a gun. Nobody, that is, except many of your senators. They just don’t
care.”
Barefoot hippies in Boulder? No. That was the Florida Sun
Sentinel in Orlando.
“The U.S. Senate’s handling of a gun safety package was
cowardly and contemptible … What kind of a governing body responds to a
national crisis by refusing to even discuss it openly and publicly?”
I agree with that, but it was written by the Kansas City
Star. Hundreds of editorials across the country used the same language, making
it clear that the NRA had bullied a handful of low-life senators who are so
cowardly, so corrupt that they would knowingly lie and distort the issue in a
painfully obvious attempt to cover their political tracts and back ends. This,
this is on par with Nixon’s nastiness. This is unforgiveable.
And not only did the liars at the NRA cheat the 90 percent
of Americans wanting expanded gun registration out of what they want, by
cheating and extorting and misleading, they celebrated their successful deceit
when they “won.”
Mission accomplished. You want to know who those people
really are? Well some people estimate that 1 in 4 Americans now own a gun. That
would be about 76 million people. How many “belong” to the NRA? About 4.5
million. You know how many Americans don’t answer to the NRA goons? 309 million
Americans. You know who dropped his membership to the NRA? George W. Bush after
NRA freaks bought paid ads calling the government “jack-booted thugs.”
By using the weapon of choice for all terrorist
organizations, extortion, the NRA has forced the action of about 45 ineffectual
U.S. senators, a clear act of terrorism and treason. And Wayne LaPierre and his
arrogant cronies are laughing about it. They’re laughing at 9 out of 10 of you
and your insistence that Congress do something reasonable to stop the insanity
in this country.
It’s time for the majority of Americans to fight the battle
cowards in the Senate are too gutless to handle. If you have a relationship
with the terrorists at the NRA, end it. Insist your political heroes do the
same and turn back NRA blood money from gun makers. If you really stand behind
the spirit of the American Constitution, push back against the cancerous threat
that seeks to undermine it for the sake of U.S. gun makers.
Reach Editor Dave Perry at 303-750-7555 or
dperry@aurorasentinel.com
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