{"id":9162,"date":"2013-02-25T03:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2013-02-25T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:27:43","slug":"gun-nuttiness-royale-refusing-to-sell-guns-to-police-in-pro-safety-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9162","title":{"rendered":"Gun Nuttiness Royale: Refusing To Sell Guns To Police In Pro-Safety States"},"content":{"rendered":"

So exactly how deep is the vein of idiocy that runs through the NRA gun worship crowd? Just have a look at this item from Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze (and associated wingnut media): 44 Gun Companies Have Stopped Selling To Law Enforcement In Anti-2nd-Amendment States.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is the sort of thing you expect from lie factories like Fox Nation<\/a>. But the evil genius in this meticulously plotted protest is not readily apparent at first glance. However, if you let it sink in for a minute it becomes hilariously inept. In fact, it’s rather astonishing how they could get so much wrong in one short headline. Let us count the ways:<\/p>\n

1) No states are anti-2nd Amendment.<\/strong>
\nThe gunnies are trying to portray any state that dares to seek solutions to rampant gun violence of the sort that took the lives of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, as contrary to the right to keep and bear arms as stipulated in the Constitution. However, reasonable regulations and background checks have been upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court and are supported by majorities of the American public, and even by majorities of NRA members.<\/p>\n

2) There’s no evidence that any of the listed vendors were ever state suppliers.<\/strong>
\nThe article on TheBlaze lists 44 munitions vendors who are taking an oath to refuse to sell their products to law enforcement agencies. But in no cases have they provided any evidence that they are presently engaged in such sales. And in at least some cases it seems pretty unlikely. I’m not sure that Old Grouch\u2019s Military Surplus or Controlled Chaos Arms are sacrificing much in the way of revenue from police department clients. None of the major arms manufacturers like Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer, or Glock are participating in the boycott.<\/p>\n

3) Other vendors will happily take up the slack.<\/strong>
\nThese eager activists don’t seem to grasp the concept of boycotts. Generally they are carried out by refusing to buy certain products, thus hurting the targeted vendors by using their financial clout to affect policy changes. Instead, the gunnies are refusing to sell their own products to willing buyers, thus hurting only themselves. It’s a little like demanding that the bank teller hand over all the money and threatening to shoot yourself if they don’t.<\/p>\n

4) If effective, the boycott would endanger the lives of citizens.<\/strong>
\nSetting aside the fact that this protest is pitifully ill-conceived, let’s imagine how it would unfold if it had any chance of succeeding. The apparent goal is to pressure states not to implement gun safety initiatives by, in effect, disarming the officers who are there to protect the people. That seems like a reckless course of action and one that the public would disapprove of in droves. Gun advocates may enjoy fondling their weapons and pretending to be superheroes, but most citizens are not anxious to confront desperate criminals on their own. Grandma is not likely to hear the call on the police scanner, start up the Rambler, and head down to the mall to foil a gang of jewelry store thieves.<\/p>\n

5) The law enforcement agencies don’t make the laws.<\/strong>
\nPerhaps the most tunnel-blind facet of this folly is that the dimwitted gun vendors are aiming their protest at the police, despite the fact that they are only responsible for enforcing laws, not drafting them. So the gunnies are taking a stand to refuse to provide service revolvers to local police because of something that was done by governing legislatures and executives.<\/p>\n

Like so many harebrained schemes by far-right extremists, this protest action is not very well thought out. It harms first responders who are innocent parties in this debate; it puts citizens at risk; it blows up in their own faces financially; and it makes no strategic sense whatsoever. Yet it is being heralded by the wingnut press including Breitbart News, and Fox Nation. And in addition to the article on TheBlaze, Glenn Beck addressed the subject on his webcast escalating it into pure conspiracy theory delusion. He warned that the gun dealers…<\/p>\n

“…are not going to provide anything to a state where those weapons are going to be used against the citizens to possibly take guns and gun rights away.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Beck is afraid that states are plotting shooting rampages by police against residents in pursuit of their firearms and, therefore, the police must be disarmed. This is another demonstration of conservatives leaning so far out to the right that they fall overboard and make asses of themselves. And as if to underscore their dementia, note the ad on TheBlaze about “FEMA Coffins.”<\/em> Those should come in handy after the cops have killed everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So exactly how deep is the vein of idiocy that runs through the NRA gun worship crowd? Just have a look at this item from Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze (and associated wingnut media): 44 Gun Companies Have Stopped Selling To Law Enforcement In Anti-2nd-Amendment States. This is the sort of thing you expect from lie factories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,44,1019],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-nra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2nM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22467,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=22467","url_meta":{"origin":9162,"position":0},"title":"Cold Dead Hands: Gun Nuts Demand 2nd Amendment Rights For Zombies","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/15\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Note: This is not a joke. 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