What IS IT with Republicans and Guns?!?

[billh58]

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Philosophically, I don’t think we humans are mature enough to wield something as powerful as a gun. We have a very strong fight or flight reflex that is thrown off balance when wielding weapons that go boom. Holding a gun tends to make a person fight when the best choice is flight (or at least not shoot). To make this instinct intrusion worse, the gun lobby has exacerbated the problem by doing everything it can to terrify gun lovers that monsters, rapists, and kidnappers lurk behind every corner. Many gun owners in this country are constantly in a mental state as if they are being attacked. That’s why they’re so terrified of even the mention of gun safety laws. Every time I see Wayne LaPierre speak I think he’s imitating an announcer for a horror movie. Where has reality gone?

Decades of fear mongering by the NRA has caused the far right of the republican party to reach this biblical love of guns based on fabricated fear. Fewer and fewer households own guns, yet more and more are being sold. That means stockpiling. People stockpile when they are scared and paranoid something terrible will happen. Stockpiling guns is not good for community or country.

Why are gun rights an all or nothing issue with the far right?Why is it that when people even mention “Gun Safety” we immediately have radio talk show hosts screaming about revolution on CNN? The hyper-knee jerk reactions like that – where extremists are so loud that all of us in the middle, the majority, can’t even be heard… proves that the NRA has done its job very well.

Being a gun collector is one thing, stockpiling to defend against phantoms and ghosts is another. Stockpiling guns against the NRA-created demons motivates people to start making scary YouTube videos. It’s time for the NRA to make its exit.

http://www.politusic.com/rants/what-is-it-with-republicans-and-guns/

Any of this sound familiar? This is the right-wing Republican reaction to common sense gun control, so why do we hear the exact same Chicken Little screaming about "the Democrats want to take our guns" right here on DU? Not so hard to figure out if you really think about it.

[LonePirate]

1. I don't get it either. Even more astounding is this info from Harry Enten.

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/813549560903647233

(((Harry Enten))) ?@ForecasterEnten

Here's another one... Among gay, lesbian, or bisexual voters where two people in household own a gun (sample size 237), Trump won by 2.

When people prioritize guns over their basic rights, we're doomed.

[HoneyBadger]

2. a gay, lesbian or bisexual household has plenty to defend themselves against in this world

Wouldn't you agree? The folks at the Pulse nightclub would. The Pink Pistols (you can guess) would.

[billh58]

3. This NRA canned response is

exactly what the OP is talking about. Thanks for playing, but you do not belong in this Group.

[Hoyt]

4. As we saw in the GE, the typical GOP voter is lightly educated, a racist/bigot, white, etc.

That is your typical gun fancier. I'm not talking about someone who has a gun or two at home for hunting, farm work, etc. I'm talking about those who arm up and train as if preparing for urban warfare.

It's not just GOPers either. I've seen threads right hear about what to tell police if you screw up and shoot someone. That thread was just months before Zimmerman killed an unarmed kid. I've seen threads about your preferred carrier when going to the store or the one about best defense rifle as a hurricane approached New York.

Guns, racism, bigotry, xenophobia, bolstering ones self-esteem with guns (or money), and the like, are characteristic of GOPers, with some overlap.

[billh58]

5. Exactly, but when you

read the NRA parroted responses on DU it's easy to figure out what the motive is.

[kimbutgar]

6. People that are fearful need their guns to keep them safe at night

[billh58]

7. And the NRA right-wingers

know exactly which buttons to push to make these puppets fearful...