Wayne LaPierre just told me that the UN wants to take away my guns.

[progressoid]

So the NRA just called my business line with a message from Wayne (I have a similar last name as an old local RWer so I often get calls assuming they are talking to one of their believers).
According to Wayne, the UN is meeting "right here in New York" to discuss further ways to take away my guns just like they did in Canada, England, and Australia.


Then one of Wayne's "associates" got on the line and asked if I was concerned about the issues Wayne raised...

Me: "No"

Associate: "What?"

pause...

Associate: "Do the issues Wayne raised concern you?"

Me: "Nope"

Associate: "Oh, um. Thank you for taking our survey."

**click**

:eyes:

[RagAss]

1. They're running out of ideas to sell memberships ! Space Ailiens are next.

[progressoid]

4. Yeah,

it did have an air of desperation.

[lawodevolution]

15. yep, only 4 million members

only 100 times more current members than the brady campaigns list of everyone who was ever a member.

[SteveM]

22. "Space Aliens?" Nah, far more prosaic: gun-control/banners....

does it far better than One-eyed, One-horned People Eaters.

[Euromutt]

24. Actually, they've been working that one for the past five years or so

Pretty much since the whole Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons got started, and certain parties have been trying to use it as a backdoor to get registration of privately owned firearms imposed in the US. That's not to say, however, that the claims made by the NRA leadership aren't wildly overblown.

[louis-t]

2. Oh no! The guys with the blue helmets and the

black helicopters gunna take yer guns away!

[Name removed]

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[polmaven]

5. QUICK!!!

Someone call Paul Revere! HURRY!

[napi21]

6. Gee, what in the world would this nutball rant about if it werent for

his recurring nightmare that someone...anyone...is out to take his guns?

[safeinOhio]

7. is that part of Obama's

secret 10 point plan to take away grandpa's shotgun? NRA, fear mongers.

More like NRA Board member Grover Norquist is trying to take away grandpa's SS and Medicare.

[progressoid]

14. I suppose the fact that none of their guns have been taken away by Obama

kind of ruins that sales campaign.

[lawodevolution]

17. What about grandpa's AR15?

[kctim]

8. Pretty much how I feel

when people tell me President Obama wants to take away my social security.

[TheWraith]

11. BING! You with the prize!

Scaring people sells, even on the left.

[SteveM]

23. Why, I never!...

[DainBramaged]

9. Every person in America, children too, could own TWO guns with the number sold

to the gunnies, and enough ammo to fully supply WWII all over.


And this douche wants to stroke the fires more?

[TheWraith]

12. Um, no. Where did you get silly ideas like that? nt

[lawodevolution]

16. Really, two guns. Did you make that up or can you back it up?

I see, no facts when it comes to gun issues, just stupid statements based on ignorance and emotion.

[MikeW]

10. i dont know why people fall for this stuff

If your a gun owner you know the Constitution and you also know that the UN cant do #### about it.

[TheWraith]

13. Most people don't fact check hyperbole.

Even people who are supposedly smart. DU is an everyday lesson in this.

[lawodevolution]

18. The NRA is a large national organization

They often concern themselves with issues that are at the national (or international) level. The UN would shut down legal gun ownership if they could so the issue is valid.

With the current economic crisis going on, the UN should be defunded.

[progressoid]

21. "if they could"

But they can't, so it's not a valid issue.

[Euromutt]

25. Let's get it clear "the UN" isn't a monolithic entity

The very name "United Nations" should be indicative of that; there are almost two hundred member states, each trying to use the channels and organs of the UN to pursue the interests of its own government. Some of them might indeed want to "shut down legal gun ownership" but the Programme of Action/Arms Trade Treaty is a minor component of the UN's total activities.

[Glassunion]

19. Why don't I ever get these calls?

WTF?

[lawodevolution]

20. you lack excessive dopamine activity in the brain.

[Katya Mullethov]

28. I have........... said so on the caller ID too .

I gave him by best Jim Brady impersonation .

[ileus]

26. That goes without saying....we don't need no stinkin' NRA to state the obvious.

[DWC]

27. Phone solicitations STINK from the NRA, DNC, or whomever n/t

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[gejohnston]

30. Don't hate the UN, don't love it either. Sometimes they do good,

sometimes they screw up, but mostly they are a herd of cats.

[Euromutt]

33. Always bear in mind the primary purpose of the UN is to (help) prevent another World War

So far, it's performed that function for over 60 years.

Speaking as former staff member, I'll be the first to acknowledge there's lots to dislike about the UN, not least the fact that every member government is out to protect its own interests, which not only means they're (as you so aptly put it) a herd of cats, but it's damn hard to get them to Do The Right Thing even when it's perfectly obvious what The Right Thing is.

[aikoaiko]

31. Remember when all the cheap high quality South African ammo went away...

The UN and NGOs opposed to small arms proliferation pressure countries to destroy rather than sell off to the private sector in other countries like the US.

http://www.un.org//News/briefings/docs/2006/060621_Kariyawasam.doc.htm

[gejohnston]

32. I'm sure CCI, Nobel, Federal etc. was all for that but,

then sometimes I'm just a cynic.