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The NRA, and the tactics of fear
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Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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... "I get many solicitations for membership and contributions in the mail, but I found this one to be particularly alarming. While it promised me an 'NRA rugged duffel bag' for joining, its main pitch was to scare me and the thousands of other persons receiving it into signing a 'National Petition to Protect Our Rights to Keep and Bear Arms' and joining the NRA. Signing the petition was important the letter explained because 'the Obama-Biden-Bloomberg gun ban machine and their anti-gun media allies are waging all-out war on our gun rights!'" ... |
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Millwright66
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Since when has reporting of documented overt acts by public officials, bureaucrats and government agencies - spanning decades - on the public record become "tactics of fear" ? In another age doubtless this individual would proclaim similar about ads for replacing open candles with kerosene lamps ! Or perhaps its the offer of "free stuff" as enticement to joining the NRA ? Like the government doesn't offer far better 'enticements' like cell phones, EBT cards, housing and medical care for 'voting the right way' ? The NRA is offering opportunity for individuals to express their self-reliance, freedom and independence, (as symbolized by that duffle), in a nation where personal freedoms, privacy and opportunity are rapidly shrinking. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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