Obama's Devious Plot to Take Away Your Guns

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http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/obamas-devious-plot-take-away-your-guns

Obama's Devious Plot to Take Away Your Guns
—By Kevin Drum| Tue Sep. 27, 2011 10:41 AM PDT
More 11-dimensional chess from President Obama! He says he has no interest in further gun control, and he's done nothing to restrict gun ownership, but NRA president Wayne LaPierre sees what the rest of us don't:

Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep and play us for fools in 2012. Well, gun owners are not fools and we are not fooled.

Sotomayor, Kagan, Fast & Furious, the United Nations, executive orders. Those are the facts we face today....President Obama and his cohorts, yeah, they're going to deny their conspiracy to fool gun owners. Some in the liberal media, they are already probably blogging about it. But we don't care because the lying, conniving Obama crowd can kiss our Constitution!

What good is 11-dimensional chess when your opponents are playing in 12 dimensions? Obama has met his match.

Total paranoia is some quarters, I'd say.

[Enrique]

1. NRA fundraising must be slow

:shrug:

[Tippy]

4. Correct answer.....

[DrDan]

2. not surprising - "Total paranoia" is the backbone (so to speak) of the whole movement

[LAGC]

It would be nice if President Obama came out firmly in support of the Second Amendment.

That would really take the air out of the NRA's arguments, and win over a lot of swing voters/independents.

[brewens]

5. That would only confirm their worst fears! n/t

[Cigar11]

6. Then they would be against Guns

... they will need to stay the course.

[LAGC]

7. LOL, you may be right.

Pretty amazing how Obama can trot out Republican positions and get the Republicans to knee-jerk oppose them.

Maybe some reverse psychology is in order...

[COLGATE4]

8. You're missing the point. The whole gist of the newest Wayne

LaPierre harangue is that Obama's supporting the Second Amendment is really just cover for a sinister, complex plot he and everybody else has to really GUT the Second Amendment. This appeals to the NRA's 'black helicopter, UN forces in secret bases in America' paranoid crowd.

[Hoyt]

13. Let's hope he doesn't buy votes by endorsing millions more guns in society. We have too many now.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Fear is about the only thing living in the Republicon soul

Must be tuff to go through life besotted with fear.

What the hell are these people doing in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?

[pipoman]

9. Does anyone have a link

to where O has ever said, "He says he has no interest in further gun control"? Last I knew he has published his desire to re-institute the failed "assault weapons ban" on change.org. Further the Democratic platform still has this language. If O came out with an actual statement that he will not pursue any new gun laws, it would deflate that argument.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Wayne LaPierre is a fool.

A paranoid fool at that, and tool of the right wing.

[applegrove]

11. Otherwise known as the GOP's devious plan to keep gun owners afraid.

[saras]

12. I'd LOVE for Obama to try and take away my guns, because he'd have to GIVE ME SOME FIRST

...and once I had them, I could sell them before he got a chance to take them. Sounds like a good deal. Give me something to sell, then vastly increase the value of it.

[Logical]

14. I carry concealed and am pro-gun, but HATE the right wing NRA!