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NRA: "We're not the paranoid ones; they are!"

The NRA should probably change their name to the NRAT, which would stand for, Not Really All There. Just yesterday, the National Rifle Association posted a video with a monologue by Billy Johnson, who says this about gun-control advocates supposedly being paranoid:

"What does it say about you that you are afraid of people who are legally exercising their right to bear arms? What does it say about you that your fear of an inanimate object, a gun, has led you to suspect everyone who chooses to own that object? And what does it say about you that you are afraid of the almost 10 million legal concealed carry gun owners in the U.S. who don't commit crimes every year? Who's the paranoid one now?"

Yes, a man whom has been paranoid that the government and gun-control advocates are going to take away his guns, has attempted to turn things around and make it appear as if gun-control advocates are the paranoid ones. Let's compare the two sides here:

NRA-lovers: "They're going to take away my guns!"

Proof: None


Gun-control advocates: "Guns are dangerous and more laws should be passed to limit gun-related deaths!"

Proof:

- In a study published by the journal Pediatrics, children were harmed in gun-related accidents on 2,149 occasions in 2009.

- From 2005 to 2010, 3,800 people were killed in the U.S. via "accidental" shootings.

- Washington State Sociology Professor Jennifer Schwartz said, "Nearly half of all homicides, committed by men or women, were preceded by some sort of argument or fight, such as a conflict over money or property, anger over one partner cheating on another, severe punishment of a child or abuse of a partner, retaliation for an earlier dispute, or a drunken fight over an insult or other affront."

- Schwartz also said that "40% of male offenders were drinking alcohol at the time," and approximately 33% of women were as well.

- According to a 2008 RAND Corporation Study, regarding the New York Police Department's firearms training program, showed that "the average hit rate during gunfights was just 18 percent. When suspects did not return fire, police officers hit their targets 30 percent of the time."

The list, like the Energizer bunny, could keep going and going and going, but I'll stop there for now.

So, given all of this, Billy Johnson, which of these quotes sound crazier to you?

1) "We're worried because: More people die in this country from guns than terrorism, there are loopholes for felons, funding for mental health is lacking, and I'd feel less frightened of dying by accident via a gun when walking around a store if there were no guns than if there were."

2) "We're worried the government's going to take away our guns, even though we have no proof of that, are law-abiding citizens, and wouldn't have to worry about our guns being taken from us if new laws were enacted because we're law-abiding citizens."

I'll give him some time to think about it. If he answers #2, however, I hope there's a mental health facility nearby...

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/24/3571725/the-nra-has-a-funny-definition-of-the-word-paranoid/

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