{"id":130889,"date":"2016-06-16T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/stay-classy-national-rifle-association.html"},"modified":"2016-06-16T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:31:50","slug":"stay-classy-national-rifle-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/stay-classy-national-rifle-association.html","title":{"rendered":"Stay classy, National Rifle Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because just two days after the worst one-man massacre in US history is the perfect<\/i> time to release a video calling on all Americans to buy guns just like the killer used.<\/i> I mean, clearly if everyone at the dance club<\/i> had been packing AR-15s, too, nothing could have possibly happened, right?<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n

'I guarantee if the Founding Fathers had known this gun would have been invented, they wouldn’t have rewritten the Second Amendment, they would have fortified it in stone. Because they knew the only way for us to stay free was by having whatever guns the bad guys have.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, it says it right there in the Second Amendment: "Having whatever guns the bad guys have being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."<\/p>\n

'This firearm gives people the advantage they so desperately need …'<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, if the "bad guys" have AR-15s, it's not much of an advantage.<\/p>\n

'… and deserve to protect their life, liberty, and happiness.'<\/i><\/p>\n

You deserve<\/i> an AR-15.<\/p>\n

You'd never know that Sig Sauer, the manufacturer of the AR-15 used in Orlando, was a corporate donor to the NRA, would you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nTimothy Johnson<\/a><\/span>
\nDays after a gunman used an assault weapon in a terror attack that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others, the National Rifle Association released a video urging Americans to buy assault weapons to protect against terrorists and other threats.<\/p>\n

According to the NRA video, Americans should buy assault weapons to “protect their life, liberty,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because just two days after the worst one-man massacre in US history is the perfect time to release a video calling on all Americans to buy guns just like the killer used. I mean, clearly if everyone at the dance club had been packing AR-15s, too, nothing could have possibly happened, right? Yeesh. 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