Wayne LaPierre - President Obama not banning guns so he can destroy the Second Amendment.

Malor wrote:
It's plausible that Obama would keep gun control out of his 1st term to bring it up in his 2nd.

Even if he did do that, the man has shown no backbone whatsoever. The Republicans would frown slightly, and he'd promptly give every member of the tea party a free Main Battle Tank.

I wonder of this is the same kind of reasoning that the Sandy Hook conspiracy nuts are now using.

Well, it is quite the coincidence that they've been all panicky about Obama's second term, and the very first thing that's happening in his second term is gun control.

Self fulfilling prophecy.

Doesn't seem like any of the high-profile cases involve gun nuts, though, just seriously messed up normal people. I'm not sure how you could call that a self-fulfilling prophecy; to whatever degree Obama tries to take away guns, neither the fear of him taking them nor the people doing the fearing seem to have prompted the action. It's just prophecy, not prophecy that brings itself to pass.

I realize it's just coincidence, but it WAS pretty darn accurate.

Malor wrote:

Well, it is quite the coincidence that they've been all panicky about Obama's second term, and the very first thing that's happening in his second term is gun control.

Keep in mind that so far all that has happened is "hey, maybe the federal government should offer gun safety classes." Not quite wrenching peoples' guns from their cold dead fingers.

Yonder wrote:

Keep in mind that so far all that has happened is "hey, maybe the federal government should offer gun safety classes." Not quite wrenching peoples' guns from their cold dead fingers.

Well, that's a "degree" of taking guns away, if you're willing to read it as such.

Malor wrote:

Doesn't seem like any of the high-profile cases involve gun nuts, though, just seriously messed up normal people. I'm not sure how you could call that a self-fulfilling prophecy; to whatever degree Obama tries to take away guns, neither the fear of him taking them nor the people doing the fearing seem to have prompted the action. It's just prophecy, not prophecy that brings itself to pass.

I realize it's just coincidence, but it WAS pretty darn accurate.

There is little in my mind that seperates somebody like Holmes from your average anti government prepper nutbag.