Meet The New Boss, Just As Insane As The Old Boss

Meet the NRA's incoming president, Alabama attorney Jim Porter.  Here's a guy who continues a long tradition of insane paranoia and persecution, only he's in charge of an organization of millions of heavily armed people, and dammit, it's Obama's fault.

“Last fall, just before the elections, as community-organizer-in chief, President Obama demanded that his followers extract revenge,” Porter said. “I can’t remember a president ever publicly using that word against fellow Americans. Revenge is what’s motivating the president’s unrelenting attacks on gun owners today.”

The statement was an apparent reference to the president’s Nov. 2 statement at a campaign rally that “voting’s the best revenge” after his supporters booed the mention of Republican congressmen.

Porter also said the president’s push for expanded background checks on gun sales was motivated by revenge, calling it a “national gun registration” incited by the defeat of the Toomey-Manchin amendment in the Senate.

“What this universal scheme would have done is to make honest citizens do a criminal act,” Porter said. “Sell a gun to a good neighbor, just like you would do today, become a felon. And the government takes your guns. But losing in a Senate vote is not going to stop Obama. He’s now threatening Democratic senators who are friends of [the] NRA. He will destroy them, if he can.”

Porter is of course outright lying.  The Manchin-Toomey legislation specifically made using background check information in creation of a national gun registry a federal felony, not less than three times in the bill.  The current Brady Bill legislation also prevents that.  Jim Porter is, like Wayne LaPierre before him, a complete liar, but it doesn't matter.

Paranoia with a hair-trigger is an awesome way for someone involved in all this to get hurt or killed.  But the NRA doesn't care:  if they did, they'd be pushing responsible firearm ownership instead of this nonsense.  It sure is making gun and ammo manufacturers a lot of money, however.

Funny how that works, huh?