Let's take this to it's logical conclusion: Heroin and syringes for everyone. No more drug problem!

The reporters should have stood their ground.

After using paperboys for target practice, this is the next logical step.

There must be a lot of teens in scary looking hoodies in D.C.

Now, The Post's Philip Rucker and Ed O'Keefe report the NRA is proposing language to gut the last meaningful gun-control proposal, making gun trafficking a federal crime. Apparently, the gun lobby thinks even criminals deserve Second Amendment protection.

Of course they do, their industry clientele needs more customers.

Gun nutters right here on fark plea for sympathy for misunderstood felons with domestic violence records.

Pocket Ninja: So the journalists should start wearing their own guns, and then to be safe the audience members should start bringing guns, too. And then everybody can just be standing in the room with guns together, celebrating how secure they feel.

The conference is in DC, a carry permit is basically impossible to get unless you're a security officer or private bodyguard for a living.

I would venture that the speaker wasn't armed either, only the actual guards.

//I had an armed guard on campus when I was in middle school and a few in high school, they were on-duty cops assigned by the city mostly to keep an eye out for drug crime.  If the NRA's willing to pay the salaries I guess it wouldn't hurt anybody.  If they're expecting schools to pay for it they can fark off, though.

Isn't this what were trying to do though? Make sure only one group (govt) is allowed to have firearms and the Rest of us just have to listen and do what they say?

In a spectacle that officials at the National Press Club said they had never seen before, the NRA gunmen directed some photographers not to take pictures, ordered reporters out of the lobby when NRA officials passed and inspected reporters' briefcases before granting them access to the news conference.

If you feel the need to do this to reporters at a press conference, no amount of firearm ownership freedoms/rights/privileges (whatever you want to call them) will ever make you feel safe from bad guys. You are just a gigantic coward, possibly with a tiny penis, and are trying desperately to show the world that no, in fact you are not a coward and your cock is at least better than slightly below average.

It's OK because the unions were thugs first so the NRA is just standing their ground and furthermore

That's cute! They were so afraid of the guns they forgot it would be illegal for any of them to be shot!

Wouldn't it be funny if, because of this, nobody showed up to the NRA's next presser?

terriblist: It's OK because the unions were thugs first so the NRA is just standing their ground and furthermore

There may even be a fair amount of cross-over in the two populations

Plans for limiting assault weapons and ammunition clips are history, and the prospects for meaningful background checks are bleak.

Not been following the legislation.. Are they really not going to get anything through? That's farking pathetic.

They only support it because they imagine all the armed guards to be white, and all the children to be black.

When fascism comes to the United States...

Kome: If you feel the need to do this to reporters at a press conference, no amount of firearm ownership freedoms/rights/privileges (whatever you want to call them) will ever make you feel safe from bad guys. You are just a gigantic coward, possibly with a tiny penis, and are trying desperately to show the world that no, in fact you are not a coward and your cock is at least better than slightly below average.

I think it perfectly demonstrates the compliance that weapons give you over the public.

Kinda scary to think anyone wielding a gun can hold that kinda power over you...

Kinda makes you want to be able to fight back if you had to.

Shame there is no constitutional amendment about fighting back for the security of your nation...

MichiganFTL: Isn't this what were trying to do though? Make sure only one group (govt) is allowed to have firearms and the Rest of us just have to listen and do what they say?

wat

Mrfusticle: Plans for limiting assault weapons and ammunition clips are history, and the prospects for meaningful background checks are bleak.

Not been following the legislation.. Are they really not going to get anything through? That's farking pathetic.

And now you see why I'm glad that I live in New York, a sane state.

Fuggin Bizzy: When fascism comes to the United States...

It's not fascist for a private entity to do security screening.

Fascism is a form of government. The NRA is not a form of government.

you sound like you are 15 and mad at your parents that you couldn't go to the punk rock show.

Mrfusticle: Plans for limiting assault weapons and ammunition clips are history, and the prospects for meaningful background checks are bleak.

Not been following the legislation.. Are they really not going to get anything through? That's farking pathetic.

No gun law will ever be passed again in the US. All current firearm and munition restrictions will sunset and never be renewed. Private armies run by billionaires will be the norm, and they will establish their own warlord sections of this country, warring over territory.

Fuggin Bizzy: When fascism comes to the United States...

That's ridiculous. The NRA aren't fascists, Wayne LaPierre's white!

I was renting the upper unit of a house in a fairly nice area Arlington VA once.  My landlord stopped by one day.  He had a place in South East D.C. and he was wondering if I would be interested in rent that place instead.  I was concerned about the neighborhood so I asked, 'is it safe there?'  He responded, 'of course it's safe; I put bars to the windows.'

My point being.  If you require bars for your house to be safe then you have a bigger safty problem not solved by the bars.  If we require armed gaurds in our schools for them to be safe then we have a bigger security problem that is not addressed by the armed guards.  The problem is that it is too easy for nuts to get ahold of guns.  The solution is easy, make it harder for nuts to get guns.  The process is already in place; background checks.  Just exand background checks to private sales.

MichiganFTL: Isn't this what were trying to do though? Make sure only one group (govt) is allowed to have firearms and the Rest of us just have to listen and do what they say?

Another masturbatory traitor fantasy about launching an armed revolution to overthrow the democratically elected government of this country.

Given the tone and the verbiage used by the author I am going to guess the bullying consists of on accidental shoulder bump that was not immediately appologized for and one person without credentials was asked what is in the briefcase.

cameroncrazy1984: Mrfusticle: Plans for limiting assault weapons and ammunition clips are history, and the prospects for meaningful background checks are bleak.

Not been following the legislation.. Are they really not going to get anything through? That's farking pathetic.

And now you see why I'm glad that I live in New York, a sane state.

I live in the UK ... Haven't seen a gun since I went on holiday to Spain last year

HotWingConspiracy: MichiganFTL: Isn't this what were trying to do though? Make sure only one group (govt) is allowed to have firearms and the Rest of us just have to listen and do what they say?

wat

He's just passionate about what he believes reality to be.

fluffy2097: Fuggin Bizzy: When fascism comes to the United States...

It's not fascist for a private entity to do security screening.

Fascism is a form of government. The NRA is not a form of government.

you sound like you are 15 and mad at your parents that you couldn't go to the punk rock show.

So Hitler/Mussolini weren't Fascists until they formed a government? Folks must have been very confused about what they stood for... oh.. no they weren't

MichiganFTL: Isn't this what were trying to do though? Make sure only one group (govt) is allowed to have firearms and the Rest of us just have to listen and do what they say?

Yup. There's no middle ground between guns for everyone and no guns for anybody.

None at all.

You farking tool.

Muta: The solution is easy, make it harder for nuts to get guns.

The solution is simple! we just stop crime!

Everyone stop arguing! Muta figured out how to end all crime! We just have to stop committing crimes! It's so simple!

Saiga410: Given the tone and the verbiage used by the author I am going to guess the bullying consists of on accidental shoulder bump that was not immediately appologized for and one person without credentials was asked what is in the briefcase.

Why, what's this? Is the Dubya-era "Well, what's the problem, if'n you ain't got nut'n to hide?" bullshiat making a comeback?!

Dr Dreidel: ..a government armed with more weaponry and ordnance in a single armory than your entire town, and staffed by people who wouldn't open fire on their fellow citizens for all the opium in Kabul.

Pretty much all of US history would like a word.

The notion that the members of the United States military would not fire on US citizens is unsupported by the historical record. They most certainly will fire on US citizens, if they believe the citizens to be a threat to the United States, or to their themselves. Many times that belief has been erroneous, but they do mean it when they pledge to oppose "all enemies, foreign and domestic;". Rightly so.

Epoch_Zero: Or it could be that there was literally a privately owned armed mob trying to squelch the first amendment via intimidation. Or that.

First amendment applies to public and government events, not private functions.

Dr Dreidel: and staffed by people who wouldn't open fire on their fellow citizens for all the opium in Kabul.

lol

Saiga410: Given the tone and the verbiage used by the author I am going to guess the bullying consists of on accidental shoulder bump that was not immediately appologized for and one person without credentials was asked what is in the briefcase.

Yes, I read that and thought it was a little over the top.  I doubt it was as bad as he is making it out to be.

Their just showing you idiots what it would be like if only the govt had guns.

Mrfusticle: I live in the UK ... Haven't seen a gun since I went on holiday to Spain last year

I guess avoid anything north of Birmingham or more than half a mile outside the limits of a 100k+ city, then, if that's important to you.  Lots of pheasant/quail hunting in your country, among other things.  I kept getting invited to participate last time I was bumming around over there, and I assume they didn't mean to run down the birds and strangle them with our bare hands.

MichiganFTL: Their just showing you idiots what it would be like if only the govt had guns.

Now this is how you troll.

fluffy2097: Muta: The solution is easy, make it harder for nuts to get guns.

The solution is simple! we just stop crime!

Everyone stop arguing! Muta figured out how to end all crime! We just have to stop committing crimes! It's so simple!

That's so silly! It's like saying "law-abiding gun owners don't commit crimes."

Oh, wait - people actually say that.

fluffy2097: I think it perfectly demonstrates the compliance that weapons give you over the public.

Kinda scary to think anyone wielding a gun can hold that kinda power over you...

Kinda makes you want to be able to fight back if you had to.

Shame there is no constitutional amendment about fighting back for the security of your nation...

It certainly demonstrates that an armed society is not a polite society, and it certainly is not a free society. Whether or not it's scary to think anyone with a gun can hold that kind of power over you or not is somewhat irrelevant, as that kind of power can be held over people with anything - economically, for instance. As for fighting back, well... that's what voters can do if they choose to elect political leaders who are not going to kowtow to these scared little children. I certainly send letters and e-mails to my elected officials giving them my two cents on the issue. Perhaps we all should.

New NRA Slogan: Guns don't kill and we will shoot anyone who says otherwise