NRA's LaPierre Reveals "Obama Conspiracy" To Fool Gun Owners, Repeal Second Amendment
September 26, 2011 10:41 am ET by Matt Gertz
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According to National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, the Obama administration's lack of action on gun control issues only proves just how diabolically anti-gun they are.
In a speech Friday at Florida's version of the Conservative Political Action Conference, LaPierre explained how by not pushing for new gun laws, Obama actually revealed that he is engaged in a secret plan to "lull gun owners to sleep" so that they would not vote him out of office in 2012. LaPierre claimed that Obama's "strategy" is to "get re-elected" and then "erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights."
LaPIERRE: [I]n public, [President Obama will] remind us that he's put off calls from his party to renew the old Clinton [assault weapons] gun ban, he hasn't pushed for new gun control laws, and he'll even say he looked the other way when Congress passed a couple of minor pro-gun bills by huge majorities. The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he's actually been good for the Second Amendment.
But it's a big fat stinking lie, just like all the other lies that have come out of this corrupt administration. It's all part -- it's all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment in our country. [...]
Before the President was even sworn into office, they met and they hatched a conspiracy of public deception to try to guarantee his re-election in 2012. [...]
And Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep, and play us for fools in 2012. Well, gun owners are not fools, and we are not fooled. We see the president's strategy crystal clear: get re-elected, and with no other re-elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms freedom. Erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and exorcise it from the U.S. Constitution. That's their agenda.
LaPierre did not explain in his speech why the leader of a group whose top priority is defeating President Obama in 2012 would be made privy to this secret plan. Nor did he explain how Obama planned to repeal the Second Amendment will a Congress that passes "pro-gun bills by huge majorities."
NRA leaders and advocates have been so hard up for evidence that President Obama is anti-gun that they have been citing an Obama-implemented rule that requires gun dealers in some states to report multiple sales of assault weapons to the ATF. That rule would not prevent a single person from getting a firearm.
The NRA's hysterical claim that President Obama plans to repeal the Second Amendment is a natural byproduct of the Supreme Court's finding in District of Columbia v. Heller that the amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Until then, the group could offer the similarly conspiratorial claim that gun bans and confiscation were right around the corner. With those ideas taken off the table even in theory by Heller, NRA has moved on to even more ludicrous conspiracies.
The gun lobby will never stop portaying sensible gun control policies as the first step toward "destroying our firearms freedom"; now, they're portaying no expansion of gun control in the same way. After all, the NRA needs funding, and it's not the anniversary of 9/11 every day.
(h/t Crooks and Liars)
Even IF Obama wanted to do those things, there is no way, no WAY that any Congress either current, future, or past for that matter would go about trying to revoke the 2nd Amendment. It just wouldn't happen. Not to mention the right to own firearms is well codified into US law by many different SCOTUS rulings over the years. I mean that's a battle that even if he wanted to fight it, has been lost many times over already.
But, hey, those jackmonkeys thought that when Obama took office, he'd be coming after their guns. That's why there was ammo and weapons shortages after he was elected. Do you know what good comes of what LaPierre (sounds French, he cannot be trusted) is saying now?
Yeah, MORE huge gun sales, because these people ARE fools if they believe what he is saying. There is no evidence of Obama being tough on gun control, at all. It is kind of not a major priority on his agenda.
The State could claim ownership of all arms and those who keep and bear would freely be granted license to do so similar to a software license. To that end, under the "well regulated militia" clause, the first clause of the Amendment, it is within the power of the executive to call for registration of all arms and recording of when they change hands.
Or something along those lines.
These people have guns, folks, and they're paranoid crazy people.
The paranoid, delusional nature of this speech is the strongest argument for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment I've ever seen.
I was applauding the part about the NRA before the crazies took over. I was a Lifer but quit when LaP went on TV and said an M16 was his favorite deer rifle.
I mean really, who doesn't need a .50 cal weapon to go rabbit or deer hunting?
Here's a sure-fire way to take all their guns away: Point the other direction and yell, "OH MY GOD HERE COMES OBAMA TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY!!!"
And then when they turn around to look, that is when we take their guns away.
This worked yesterday with my Uncle Rufus.
The gun nuts are still numbingly redundant.
Wake me up when Obama actually starts confiscating legal firearms from law-abiding owners.
Until then... <zzzzzzzzzzz>
And you're absolutely right. Today is the first day of the rest of my conspiracy to replace English with French.
I agree. Once upon a time, I was a member of the NRA (membership was required in order to shoot at the local gun club). There is no way that my annual membership fee paid for all the mailings they sent me full of propaganda and requests for more money so that they could fight the liberals in Washington who were about to take my guns away.
Kinda funny--that was over twenty years ago. I still have my guns, and according to the NRA the liberals are still coming to take them away.
Goooood luck with that!
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IMHO
UTOPIA
Obama is the thief who doesn't steal. But how can he be a thief if he doesn't steal? That's how he lulls people into thinking he's not a thief. If he stole, then everybody would know he's a thief. Therefore, he does not steal, and people therefore don't realize that he's a thief. But if he doesn't steal, doesn't that mean he's not a thief? And so on...
Just like in your story we know he is a thief because of his race.
I can see the headlines now, Obama confiscates guns from Americans and sells them to criminals in mexico.
Lets fire the butler in the whitehouse and replace him with a real American, Ron Paul for President.