The NRA used to be a fairly modest little organization promoting hunting safety and gun clubs that taught safety. Then, it was taken over by crazed ideologues who turned it into a lobbying-mill. It was never about anything but lobbying dollars after that.
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Good comic from TTDB, as always.
It got me to thinking of what would happen if the NRA tried to use a “slippery slope” argument in the other direction; what I would call, from their point of view, the “positive slope.”
If the 2nd Amendment guarantees the right to own & operate (safely, of course) an AR-15 or AK-47, why not a .50-cal M2 machine gun? And if that, why not a howitzer, M1 tank, or Stinger missile? Surely, if your goal is to arm the citizenry in order to deter a tyrannical government, it needs weaponry like that…
I do wonder what goes on in people’s heads, how they rationalize this kind of distinction.
The NRA used to be a fairly modest little organization promoting hunting safety and gun clubs that taught safety. Then, it was taken over by crazed ideologues who turned it into a lobbying-mill. It was never about anything but lobbying dollars after that.
Good comic from TTDB, as always.
It got me to thinking of what would happen if the NRA tried to use a “slippery slope” argument in the other direction; what I would call, from their point of view, the “positive slope.”
If the 2nd Amendment guarantees the right to own & operate (safely, of course) an AR-15 or AK-47, why not a .50-cal M2 machine gun? And if that, why not a howitzer, M1 tank, or Stinger missile? Surely, if your goal is to arm the citizenry in order to deter a tyrannical government, it needs weaponry like that…
I do wonder what goes on in people’s heads, how they rationalize this kind of distinction.
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There are people that genuinely believe this.