{"id":67237,"date":"2016-08-02T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67237"},"modified":"2016-08-02T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:18:11","slug":"john-b-alexander-isis-and-the-nra-similarities-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67237","title":{"rendered":"John B. Alexander: ISIS And The NRA: Similarities Abound"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the dumbest shit ever written. The fellow John B. Alexander claims to be a Vietnam Special Forces officer, and honestly, I don’t care. John B. Alexander is an idiot for writing his piece at the Huffington Post entitled “ISIS And The NRA: Similarities Abound<\/a>“. I don’t plan on taking a lot of time bothering to answer this garbage, but we’ll see how that turns out. <\/p>\n

So, how are the two organizations similar?<\/p>\n

– Institutionally, both organizations are remorseless about the deaths of victims
\n– Both use fear and intimidation to obtain their objectives
\n– Both assume their ideology is superior to the wishes of the majority of citizens
\n– Both have intensely loyal followers
\n– Both recruit and indoctrinate members who are ignorant of the basic facts
\n– Both are relatively small organizations that have impact far beyond their size
\n– Neither organization will apologize for the harm they cause<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How are they different? Well, the NRA doesn’t send it’s membership out to terrorize innocent people by chopping off their heads. In fact, I’ll bet that hardly any of the deaths that are illegal and committed by criminals is not committed by NRA members. However, every single death attributed to ISIS was committed by it’s membership. <\/p>\n

The NRA has created no victims – criminals create victims, and the NRA doesn’t approve of criminals having firearms, so how can the NRA be remorseless about their victims? <\/p>\n

The NRA has yet to burn victims alive in cages to obtain their objectives. The majority of Americans believe in the 2d Amendment. <\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton has “intensely loyal followers”, too, so what’s your point? <\/p>\n

Tell me I’m “ignorant of the facts” to my face. <\/p>\n

How, exactly, does the NRA cause harm? They represent the millions of members who want to keep their guns. That’s like blaming the ACLU for deaths caused by bullying because the ACLU supports the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

A legitimate criticism of the article is that even if modest gun control legislation were to be enacted, it would probably have little effect on the shooting violence level in America; at least in the short term. The seemingly intractable problem is that there already exist an estimated 300 million guns in the U.S. It is also acknowledged that most gun owners do not commit crimes or intentionally shoot others. However, too many gun owners do. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well ALL of ISIS’ members commit crimes against humanity while gun owners who belong to the NRA do not, generally speaking. In fact, I’d love for Alexander to name even one NRA member who committed a mass shooting. He cannot. <\/p>\n

According to his bio, “His latest book is UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.” Wiki<\/a> says about Alexander; “John B. Alexander (born 1937) is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer and colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal.” Apparently, he was involved in staring at goats.<\/p>\n

He should stick to writing about space aliens and leave the social commentary to people with actual brains.<\/p>\n

Thanks to David for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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