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The Right Wing Gun Lobby
Just a few samples from the concentrated effort by the right-wing to spread fear among otherwise sensible American gun owners. Second Amendment absolutists repeat these lies on Internet discussion boards, and use them as “proof” that Liberal Democrats are evil and coming for your guns. The “Pro-Gun” movement is fueled by right-wing organizations like the NRA, ALEC, Fox News, and the Koch Brothers.
From The Young Turks
“Right-Winger Andrew Breitbart fantasized about a hypothetical Civil War with the left saying the following to a group of Tea Party members – ‘We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns’”
Los Angeles Times – Peril from ‘patriots’
“There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.
They're not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans, nearly all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/08/opinion/la-ed-patriot-groups-splc-report-20130308
Right Wing Watch
Rand Paul Pushes Conspiracy Theory that Obamacare 'Databanks' Gather Information on Gun Owners .
“The right-wing group Gun Owners of America has for the past few years been pushing the debunked conspiracy theory that the health care reform law will be used to collect information on gun owners, information that will later be used as part of a gun-confiscation scheme.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-paul-pushes-conspiracy-theory-obamacare-databanks-gather-information-gun-owners
Crooks And Liars
Right-Wing Fearmongering About Guns Reaching A Fever Pitch
“The difference between the 1990s and now? When I was hearing talk like this then, it was coming out of the mouths of the Bo Gritzes and John Trochmanns -- the leaders and fanatical ideologues who drove the militia movement.
Now, it's coming out of the mouths of people with mainstream media programs: Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter."
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/right-wing-fearmongering-about-guns
Media Matters
The Return Of Right-Wing Pro-Gun Insurrectionism (This Time Featuring Hitler)
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/14/the-return-of-right-wing-pro-gun-insurrectionis/192216
“Right-Winger Andrew Breitbart fantasized about a hypothetical Civil War with the left saying the following to a group of Tea Party members – ‘We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns’”
Los Angeles Times – Peril from ‘patriots’
“There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.
They're not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans, nearly all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/08/opinion/la-ed-patriot-groups-splc-report-20130308
Right Wing Watch
Rand Paul Pushes Conspiracy Theory that Obamacare 'Databanks' Gather Information on Gun Owners .
“The right-wing group Gun Owners of America has for the past few years been pushing the debunked conspiracy theory that the health care reform law will be used to collect information on gun owners, information that will later be used as part of a gun-confiscation scheme.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-paul-pushes-conspiracy-theory-obamacare-databanks-gather-information-gun-owners
Crooks And Liars
Right-Wing Fearmongering About Guns Reaching A Fever Pitch
“The difference between the 1990s and now? When I was hearing talk like this then, it was coming out of the mouths of the Bo Gritzes and John Trochmanns -- the leaders and fanatical ideologues who drove the militia movement.
Now, it's coming out of the mouths of people with mainstream media programs: Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter."
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/right-wing-fearmongering-about-guns
Media Matters
The Return Of Right-Wing Pro-Gun Insurrectionism (This Time Featuring Hitler)
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/14/the-return-of-right-wing-pro-gun-insurrectionis/192216
As stated above, this is just a small sampling of the garbage that the right-wing gun lobby is spewing to spread fear and hate in order to promote more gun sales. It isn't about the Second Amendment -- it's about profits for death merchants. The sad fact is that these right-wing social misfits can pass background checks and legally own as many guns as they want (not need, but want).