Showing posts with label Gun Lobby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gun Lobby. Show all posts

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Who Stole the Second Amendment? – Corporate Anarchists



People who want to destroy the government are anarchists by definition. Guns would seem to be the means to overthrow a government or a means to survive after the veneer of civilization collapses.

While having worked in the Federal Government briefly, I have no doubts that 25% of Government could be eliminated tomorrow across the board including the military. Such a transition would probably put the economy into another economic tailspin and depression great recession.

Getting back to the second amendment, I can see merit in actor Danny Glover in Britain recently stating that the second amendment of two hundred years ago was a concession of the federal government to immediate local concerns such as slave uprisings or retaliation from Native Americans for the forceful taking away of their lands and or means of survival through nature.

No doubt the National Rifle Association NRA was once a gun clubby thing until the eighties and commoditizing everything in the economy not nailed down and putting a value on it and making a buck off it and not living up to any original purpose and such. Knights of Columbus as an example of how a simple domestic Catholic charity and insurance co-op got turned into an arm of the global Vatican Bank INC and money launderer for the GOP.

In government, I do not want to say what departments need radical reform or dismantling. I will say having working in the Housing and Urban Development, that the government in this day and age should not be the guarantor of mortgages. That government entities such and Fanny and Freddy were used to outsource risk and responsibility away from private corporations and onto the Gubmint. That's gubmint we can so without. Put responsibility back on the shoulders of private capital.

The Janus speak of Corporate Fox News and the wanting of Conservatives to have less government is really a way of saying corporations want more government guarantees of corporate mismanagement at the expense of the social safety net to pay for the mistakes of coke head bankers and coke header Wall Street brokers.

That all this talk of taking guns away by the government is bullshit. 

Government is incapable of doing most things. FEMA in Katrina is a great example of how Government really or really does not work. Can you imagine them, these FEMA types, trying to take anybody’s guns away? LOL

Talk of the second amendment is a distraction. Another Fox News Noise Machine effort while real responsibility and fiscal common sense in the management of government is being usurped by the new Anarchists, the Corporations. With Wayne LaPierre and his million dollar annual salary and expense accounts cheerleading for the corporate anarchists, gun manufacturers etc. 

The real New Anarchists are the corporations that have stolen, usurped the needs and services of the common man’s government. Corporations are now trying to pawn off responsibility to bullshit issues like guns and the second amendment via FOX NEWS while they steal our national treasury right out from under us just like they have already done so with our American Bill of Rights (Second Amendment Included). 

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Gun Lobbies Suppress Public Research into Gun Violence for Close to Twenty Years




The nation might be in a better position to act if medical and public health researchers had continued to study these issues as diligently as some of us did between 1985 and 1997. But in 1996, pro-gun members of Congress mounted an all-out effort to eliminate the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although they failed to defund the center, the House of Representatives removed $2.6 million from the CDC's budget—precisely the amount the agency had spent on firearm injury research the previous year. Funding was restored in joint conference committee, but the money was earmarked for traumatic brain injury. The effect was sharply reduced support for firearm injury research.To ensure that the CDC and its grantees got the message, the following language was added to the final appropriation: “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”
In 2011, Florida's legislature passed and Governor Scott signed HB 155, which subjects the state's health care practitioners to possible sanctions, including loss of license, if they discuss or record information about firearm safety that a medical board later determines was not “relevant” or was “unnecessarily harassing.” A US district judge has since issued a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of this law, but the matter is still in litigation. Similar bills have been proposed in 7 other states.
The US military is grappling with an increase in suicides within its ranks. Earlier this month, an article by 2 retired generals—a former chief and a vice chief of staff of the US Army— asked Congress to lift a little-noticed provision in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act that prevents military commanders and noncommissioned officers from being able to talk to service members about their private weapons, even in cases in which a leader believes that a service member may be suicidal.Health researchers are ethically bound to conduct, analyze, and report studies as objectively as possible and communicate the findings in a transparent manner. Policy makers, health care practitioners, and the public have the final decision regarding whether they will accept, much less act on, those data. Criticizing research is fair game; suppressing research by targeting its sources of funding is not.

For your assault killing weapon of choice:



For ease of shooting your sport prey out of a moving vehicle (for the little woman):



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Friday, December 21, 2012

Wayne LaPierre’s Compensation/Salary – $970,300 - NRA




Wayne LaPierre is number six on top twenty five salaries of Charity executives at $970,300.


NRA is a 501(c)(4) Lobby for the promotion of a Social Welfare association devotedly namely to Guns, Guns, Guns.


501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes. 
501(c)(4) organizations are not required to disclose their donors publicly.
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