Conservative's, when they are not in general conversation disparaging to President Obama or obfuscating the failures of trickle down economics, will generally rally around the theme that Jihadists are coming after us and that the NRA policies are not only protected by the Constitution, but are our best way to combat Jihadists who make it to American soil.
Of course, I think almost every Jihadist who has been arrested on American soil has had that arrest come from a trained police officer. And now the New York Times has added up all the anarchist acts on American soil and found that since 9/11 48 people have been killed by white supremacists, anti-government fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists. 26 have been killed by lone wolf Jihadists. It's too bad, for reference sake, the article did not add up the unarmed young black men killed by police & other "stand your ground" vigilantes. I am sure that would have exceeded the Jihadist death count.
What do those white supremacists and anti-government fanatics have in common with the NRA, they no doubt vote for people who support those policies that allow them the freedom to have all the weapons they want, which aligns them with the NRA and the Conservatives.
I am not advocating taking away law abiding citizens rights to own hunting rifles and handguns for protection, although I do wish we had some way to protect big city policemen from handguns in the hands of drug gangbangers.
What I do wish is there could be a rational discussion about keeping automatic and semi-automatic weapons out of general circulation. Supporting the NRA positions is supporting the rights of white supremacists and anti-government fanatics to use those weapons to wreak havoc upon the rest of us and not protecting us from any jihadists. For that we need intelligence and active police work, which is what the police are focused on.
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