It’s Campaign Season...

So the NRA Must be Using Fear Tactics Again

As it's long been said, there’s an explosive psychological element to the “gun rights” movement. Compare it, for instance, to requiring drivers and passengers to wear seat belts. No one argues that such laws are the first step to taking away your car, do they?

Or requiring infants to be in special car seats? Does that mean that you will have to register your car? Well, actually you do have to register your car. It’s called getting a license plate, and no one is trying to overturn license plate laws, are they?

But, of course, there is no NLA, National License Plate Association.

That brings us to 2008, and that means its an election year – and time for the NRA to start Halloween scare tactics early.

So, in a letter dated April 28, 2008, that we were forwarded, the million dollar a year vice president of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, warns that electing Barack Obama would mean that 90% of America’s gun shops would be forced to close.

(Scroll below to see LaPierre's deceptive letter).

Oh, and Obama would ban handguns, hunting ammunition, and probably arrest hunters and exile them to Mars, right Wayne?

Maybe the NRA logo should be a black U.N. helicopter whirring above self-proclaimed militia members.

America is in need of a lot of repair work in the coming years. Playing the fear game with guns won’t solve any of them.