NRA Push-Poll

by: Sue Prent

Sun Oct 23, 2011 at 15:50:55 PM EDT

"The U.N.'s gonna git yer guns and Obama's gonna let 'em do it."

What is it about this particular subject that is like the "ding" to Pavlov's dog?   Abortion rights, gay rights, income tax, evolution...nothing gets 'em to their feet like threatening the potential to empty hot-lead into the unfortunate carcass of a fellow American.

This, despite the fact that the topic is so off-the-table that to even speak about it is verboten!

Frankly, I'm perplexed.  I'm an American since birth, but I've lived in other countries where democracy and gun control coexist peacefully.  

In Canada, all guns are registered; a total of  roughly 1.8-million guns (mostly hunting rifles) is shared amongst a population of about 35-million souls.  Yet, nothing seems to threaten their democracy, unless it is the roughly 200-million largely undocumented firearms, mostly handguns, in private ownership just south of their international border:

"Hide yer women and yer water!  The 'Mericans are coming, the 'Mericans are coming!"

Is it any wonder the U.N. has more than a passing interest in engaging the sovereign state that is responsible for exporting most of the undocumented handguns and automatic weapons that find their way to killers across the world...and is it so surprising that President Obama, as the nominal "leader of the free world," recognizes his obligation to hear them out?

I think the next time the NRA gives me a jingle, I'm going to remind the caller that, thanks to their relentless efforts, "comes the revolution," the 99% will have a ready arsenal at hand with which to take a steely bead on that privileged 1% whose water the NRA has been so eager to carry in recent years.

Cold-calling

by: Sue Prent

Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 18:44:05 PM EST

The caller said they wanted a response to a single "survey" question.  Curious, I told her to go ahead and she played the recorded pitch which went something like this:  The UN is trying to eliminate worldwide gun-rights with the specific intention of harming the U.S.  There was a lot of hyperbole and invocation against Nancy Pelosi  and Congress and I don't remember what all else.  Then a male NRA member cut in live and posed the survey question to me which was something like, " Do you think that foreign dictators should be allowed to take away your guns, etc., etc.?"

I told him how inappropriate I found his phone call to be; what an oddly warped effort at damage-control.  He thanked me for my time and hung-up.

Duh?