Moms Demand Action posted this on their Facebook page.
It links to this article ISIS Appreciates the NRA’s Work.
In the United States, you can buy semi-automatic weapon without submitting yourself to a background check, so long as you make your purchase at a gun show. Roughly 90 percent of Americans object to this policy. But the National Rifle Association (NRA) — and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — like it a lot.
Um… No.
The NRA likes the “gun-show loophole” because the organization is funded by firearms manufacturers who would like to continue making money selling weapons to criminals. (A large majority of the NRA’s members support universal background checks, even as the organization does everything in its power to prevent their enactment.)
This is the most lying bullshit ever told in the history of lying bullshit.
First of all, that 91% of people including the NRA want background checks is right up there with 97% of scientists believe global warming will kill us all bullshit statistics.
I can tell you, as someone who works in the industry, we don’t get up in the morning and say “I really hope some criminal buys one of our guns and shoots up a school so more people go out an buy guns for self defense.”
That is EXACTLY what these fuckers believe.
So, besides criminals and the insane, who could possibly oppose universal background checks? Gun manufacturers.
They are the ones who call the shots at the NRA, and they are the most important people in the opposition. The manufacturers don’t want anything that interferes with total gun sales and profits.
Background checks would impose a minor burden on gun transactions, but more importantly, limit the size of the market (and therefore, profits) in two ways.
The direct loss of profit comes because closing the current gaping loophole in the background check system will shut off sales to criminals and the mentally ill who are effectively free to buy all the guns they want at gun shows and through private transactions.
But there is also an indirect loss of profit: Cutting off sales to the mentally ill and criminals will reduce crime and thereby reduce the public’s demand for guns for self-protection.
That is some pure cynical evil right there.
The cost of the lawsuit against Remington for Sandy Hook was a whole hell of a lot more than the profit made on that one Bushmaster rifle.
But I digress. Back to ISIS.
It isn’t too hard to guess why ISIS also approves of America’s lax gun regulations. But there’s no need for guessing. “They say the Americans are dumb — they have open gun policies,” an ISIS recruit told the New York Times last year.
Yes, there are some dumb Americans, and they work for NY Magazine.
ISIS doesn’t understand American gun laws, they only know the bullshit that gets printed in the media. ISIS repeats that bullshit to their followers. The media then picks up on that and treats ISIS like it is the legal authority on American gun laws.
This is the informational equivalent of the human centipede.
Really, what this comes down to is a new through terminating argument.
“ISIS likes…” is the new “Hitler did…” to make dismiss something.
I just love the idea, though, of Moms Demand Action turning to ISIS for knowledge about Americas gun laws.
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