Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Obfuscation of the issue

It would seem leftists are good at that, as evidenced by some of the comments here. For those who don't want to click, and really, I don't blame you, one Ray Schoenke of the American Hunters and Shooters Association goes into a full-fledged bitch-and-moan session about the NRA exposing and calling out his sham organization for what it is, a Trojan Horse full of virulent anti-gunners. It's been done over and over, so I think that for now I'll leave that particular dead horse alone, though I will say some of the commenters do a fine job of calling out Schoenke and his people for the lying frauds they are. But, naturally, more than a few of them are quite clueless:

...the greatest threat to our gun rights is not the Democratic Party, but the continued loss of hunting lands to unchecked development.

As the owl would say, O RLY? The leading Democratic candidate for president of the United States says he supports a ban on the sale, transfer and possession of all forms of semi-automatic firearms...
this candidate is very likely going to be lending his sympathetic ear to certain big-city mayors agitating for ever-tougher gun laws because they can't keep their crime problems under control...
hunting is and has been on the decline for a while...
self-defense handguns like the Glock and 1911 and semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 and M1A are the best-selling in the country...
..but the biggest threat to Americans' right to keep and bear arms is the continued loss of hunting lands. Good grief, but I have had it with these cretins. If I were a bit more Pollyanna-ish I would say that the reason anyone would say that the biggest threat to gun rights was hunting-related was that they were confident of a favorable ruling before the Supreme Court later this year, but I know better than that. These people willfully have their heads quite firmly wedged in their asses. It's all about teh Party to them, clear records of teh Party members be damned. I am all for unity, but every now and then I don't think it'd be such a bad idea to play dirty.
"Hey, Sparky, you can go to the grocery store to get meat. You don't need to engage in such a bloody, barbaric sport as hunting. Let alone with an intermediate sniper rifle."
Oh, and Ray Schoenke? You can go straight to hell, Scooter. You and all your anti-gun and Fudd buddies, too.