Vindictive attacks on ANY political figure that seeks gun control to make their nation's safer.
The NRA is about power and cares nothing about people and safe neighborhoods. Every time there is a campaign like this, the members dump more and more money into the coffers of the NRA. Political power and money. Those elected need to stand up to the NRA in numbers that destroy their ability to hold legislators and executive branch members of governments hostage to their profiteering.
Australia legislated to control semi-automatics in 1996. The semis are the 'real money' to the industry.
The NRA is about power and cares nothing about people and safe neighborhoods. Every time there is a campaign like this, the members dump more and more money into the coffers of the NRA. Political power and money. Those elected need to stand up to the NRA in numbers that destroy their ability to hold legislators and executive branch members of governments hostage to their profiteering.
Australia legislated to control semi-automatics in 1996. The semis are the 'real money' to the industry.
December 12, 2013
Nick O'Malley
...In the piece, titled "Standing Guard", the organisation’s increasingly strident public face, executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, argues that elements of the American media back Mr Obama’s alleged plan to create “a US version of the Australian/British tyranny”.
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As evidence Mr LaPierre cites an editorial by Mr Howard published by The New York Times after the Sandy Hook massacre entitled “I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too.”
“Virtually no US media outlet was honest enough to describe what actually happened to our formerly free English-speaking cousins as a direct result of mass murders committed by lone, criminally insane killers,” wrote Mr LaPierre....
NRA Editorial
"Standing Guard" (click here)
By Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President
Obama’s Obsession With Our Gun Rights
...Obama revealed his gun control endgame in a Sept. 22, 2013, political speech at a solemn memorial for the 12 Washington Navy Yard victims murdered by a deranged killer on Sept. 16, 2013.
Obama coldly used the madness of a delusional lone mass-murderer to claim that the rampage “ought to lead to some sort of transformation … it ought to obsess us.”
In the same breath, Obama defined his personal “obsession” and his notion of “transformation” for ordinary American gun owners:
“That’s what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies. In the United Kingdom, in Australia … they mobilized and they changed.”
The Washington Post praised Obama’s demand for “transformation” to an Australia-style gun roundup and destruction as “commonsense.”...
The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting interactive. It is noted that mass shooting are increasing in the USA while Australia has had no such events in their society since the gun buyback there.
The New York Times Op-Ed
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too. (click here)
The New York Times Op-Ed
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
I Went After Guns. Obama Can, Too. (click here)
By JOHN HOWARD
Published: January 16, 2013
SYDNEY, Australia
...I was elected prime minister in early 1996, leading a center-right coalition. Virtually every nonurban electoral district in the country — where gun ownership was higher than elsewhere — sent a member of my coalition to Parliament.
Six weeks later, on April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, a psychologically disturbed man, used a semiautomatic Armalite rifle and a semiautomatic SKS assault weapon to kill 35 people in a murderous rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
After this wanton slaughter, I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people. I also knew it wouldn’t be easy....
The interactive at the Sydney Morning Herald clearly points to the fact the USA has sustained it's gun suicides. There is also an uptick in recent years.
The United Nations needs to actively assist countries toward the restriction of these weapons across the globe. This viciousness by the NRA has to be exposed for what it is in the face of a treaty the UN has written and seeks to end violent rebels.
There is a larger purpose to ending gun violence in nations. The profits of gun manufacturers cannot be a focus of any nation as if they need to support the industry to simply have an economy. This economic product is too dangerous to allow manufacture to turn citizens into soldiers.
The UN may need a marketing strategy to illustrate the very destructive force of loose gun laws. There are many innocent people dead across the globe due to guns sold for profit as well as domestic deaths. The entire picture has to be realized by the people of nations targeted by the NRA. The people/voters have to realize the responsibility they have in allowing these weapons to flow like water around the globe.
Governments cannot be afraid of their politics to stop this violence and protect their citizens. Gun Control works.
To think countries can't control their own sovereign rights because of propaganda campaigns of the NRA is more than troubling.
Are these weapons egregious other than mass murder? Is there poaching that needs to end?
After this wanton slaughter, I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people. I also knew it wouldn’t be easy....
The UN may need a marketing strategy to illustrate the very destructive force of loose gun laws. There are many innocent people dead across the globe due to guns sold for profit as well as domestic deaths. The entire picture has to be realized by the people of nations targeted by the NRA. The people/voters have to realize the responsibility they have in allowing these weapons to flow like water around the globe.
Governments cannot be afraid of their politics to stop this violence and protect their citizens. Gun Control works.
To think countries can't control their own sovereign rights because of propaganda campaigns of the NRA is more than troubling.
Are these weapons egregious other than mass murder? Is there poaching that needs to end?
