NRA releases anti-Obama ad

After endorsing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is out with an anti-Obama television ad, the latest signal that the powerful pro-gun organization is preparing to commit significant resources in the effort to help defeat the president's re-election this fall.

The ad, which does not mention Romney by name, attacks unnamed, presumably Democratic, parties for "chipping away at" rights and freedoms - including Second Amendment rights.

"Mountains of debt. Threats to our sovereignty. Chipping away at your rights. Chipping away at your freedom," a narrator in the ad says. "And now they're attacking your Second Amendment rights."

"But you can stop them," the ad says, as "Stop Obama" text flashes across the screen. "Right now. Defend freedom. Defeat Obama."

According to an NRA spokesperson, the ad will air through Election Day in Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Wisconsin. The buy for this week was $1.5 million.

The NRA's Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox formally endorsed Romney for president last week at a campaign stop in Fishersville, Va., nearly six months after Romney spoke at the NRA in an appeal for the powerful lobby's support.

Romney has in the past backed an assault weapons ban and a waiting period to buy firearms, but he has signaled more recently that he would not support any new gun laws.

Gun control advocates argue that, contrary to what the NRA suggests in its ad, Mr. Obama has not done enough to promote gun control. In 2010, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence gave the president a failing grade for "continuing concessions to the 'guns anywhere' mentality of the gun lobby and lack of leadership for common-sense gun laws."

Among the laws Mr. Obama has signed while president is one that allows people to carry concealed weapons in national parks and in checked luggage on Amtrak trains. The Brady campaign also complained in 2010 that Mr. Obama "muzzled Cabinet members who expressed any support for stronger gun laws and failed to appoint permanent leadership at the agency that polices the gun industry," and that "this White House even voiced no objection to people carrying guns near Presidential events."

[Taitman3]

The NRA is an adjunct lobby for the gun industry and Republican Party. There can be no objectivity in where they stand on anything.

[ArmedLiberalinMO]

So, the NRA has finally shed the ILA and are breaking the rules on their 501(c)3s. Bully for them.

[walkthetalk]

It won't be the miltary my nephew is a Major in U. S. Marines, not too many that he talks to likes the buttoon, Now anybody else that wants to step up to plate, i'll acommodate them.

[walkthetalk]

I will fight to keep my guns, but they can have my lead for free.

[msimamaji]

The NRA again is spreading a bunch of stupid lies.

I own a motor vehicle. I must register that motor vehicle. I must pass a test for a drivers' license. If I want to drive a truck, I must get another type of license and pass another type of drivers' test.

What is wrong with requiring gun owners to conform to the same licensing procedures?

Incidentally, if you are wondering where the Mexican Mafia gets its weapons, at least 90% of them come from NRA gun shows. Incidentally, Fast and Furious was really an attempt to figure out how drug dealers got guns. It did not involve DOJ agents buying guns and giving them to drug dealers.

The gun laws, particularly in Arizona, prevented the Justice Department from any further action.

[Huck_Mucus]

There is no Constitutional Right to drive. Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is a privilege, not a right. The right to bear arms is a natural right predating but acknowledged by the Constitution.

That which can be regulated/licensed can be prohibited. Might as will license the possession of a printing press, computer, pen and paper; they are all mightier than the sword and have killed more people.

[gulfwhiskey]

Obama has always supported the 2nd amend. WHY DON'T YOU RELIGIOUS RIGHT WING WACKOS TAKE A LONG LOOK IN THE MIRROR. THERE YOU WILL SEE WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY.

[A_Moderate]

Amen!!

[VeggieVal]

Well, I'd rather take my chances with the local Sunday school teacher than the spoiled brats like you, any day.

Says a lot when you feel more threatened by a bunch of moral, salt of the earth types than you do a pathological liar and Marxist intent on bankrupting your country, don't you think?

[flexoprinter]

MojitoMamma,

We don't believe you even have a husband, there is no way you would be married to a law abiding gun owner with those views.
"Methinks the NRA doth protest too strongly"?

Where did you go to school? Sounds like ghetto talk to me, no wonder you don't want us to have guns, you want them all for you and your thugs!

[BradyMcGcbs]

The 2nd ammendment stipulates the right to keep and bear arms only in the context of a well regulated militia. Here it is: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
If we really want to honor the 2nd ammendment then gun ownership MUST be well regulated. We do not currently have a well regulated system.

[Huck_Mucus]

A well regulated militia, by definition, is one wherein the right of the people to keep and bear arms has not been infringed. Our rights have been infringed and thus, you are correct, we don't have a well regulated militia. This is NOT circular reasoning. Rather, it is internally consistent reasoning, which is the first stop in Constitutional Interpretation.

[MarkAnderso]

They need to raise money. Romney has done much more on gun control than Obama, however, he's totally etched his sketch and is a "lifetime" member of the NRA. Say anything, do anything, Mr. Etch.

[Huck_Mucus]

You hit the nail on the head. Mitt and Republicans in general are a greater threat to civil liberties (including the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) than the Democrats will ever be. Obama is a threat too, having extended Bush's assault on a civil liberties with the NDAA and other actions, but the stupidity of the Republicans, to have fallen in lock step with Bush (read "Cheney") and the neocons just because they were, well, "one of them" just demonstrates why those people should not be allowed to reign. Just watch though, Mitt will buy a cowboy hat and a chain saw, ala Regan and Bush, and America will saddle right up! YEEHAW! He's a cowboy! I'm surprised Mitt's handlers haven't thought of that yet.

[factsareyourfriend]

Read the truth and educate yourselves. Scare tactics to get the ignorant voters worked up.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jun/14/national-rifle-association/barack-obama-coming-after-guns-under-radar-nra-say/