The Second Amendment says:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The National Rifle Association is the gun nut lobby. It describes itself as
a major political force and as America’s foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world.
The NRA’s Washington-area headquarters actually has the Second Amendment engraved on it. Not all of it, of course, just the part about keeping and bearing arms. It’s only a 330,000 square foot structure with a museum inside. How could an entire sentence fit on the outside?
The NRA opposes virtually every kind of gun control measure which might keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. Now it’s running this ad:
The ad isn’t true, of course. Barack Obama isn’t going to take hunters’ guns away.
The ad is familiar though. In 2004, the NRA claimed that John Kerry wanted to “ban deer-hunting ammunition” and shotguns. “False,” per FactCheck.org:
The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund began airing a TV ad Oct. 26 falsely accusing Kerry of voting to ban deer-hunting ammunition. In fact, what Kerry voted for was a proposal to outlaw rifle ammunition “designed or marketed as having armor piercing capability.”
The NRA ad also claims Kerry is co-sponsoring a bill to “that would ban every semiautomatic shotgun and every pump shotgun.” That’s false. Kerry co-sponsored extension of the now-expired assault-weapon ban, a measure that would have expanded the ban to cover military-style shotguns but specifically exempts pump-action shotguns.
If it’s going to just make stuff up, can’t the NRA at least come up with new material?
UPDATE:
Heh:
