Well bless their little hearts . . .
God love 'em gun nuts are so gullible. They'll believe just damn near anything.
When ISIS suggested that their followers in the U.S. take advantage of lax gun laws to buy guns at gun shows or from individuals without a background check the NRA countered with: https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/05/15/53630/nratv-nratv-20170512-isis
That's right, they claim ISIS is secretly in cohorts with liberal gun grabbers to take away our guns. And it resonates with the Second Amenders.
Gun makers, in an attempt to get $200-500 deeper into gunner's pockets, promote sound suppressors aka silencers (which they aren't) as a safety device to 'protect hearing'. In fact a sound suppressor will reduce noise by a maximum of 40%, reducing noise from a major explosion to a minor one. It seems the only thing a suppressor does is make the gun 3 to 6 inches longer and of course that's enough for some. Really, the only hearing protection that works is over-the-ear muffs. But they don't make the gun longer or bigger, they only save your hearing.
Now the gun nutz are attacking Liz Warren over, get this, hearing aids.
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"Warren has teamed up with several Republicans on legislation creating an over-the-counter category of hearing aids, which proponents believe would lower prices, spur innovation, and help millions of people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss obtain devices and improve their lives. As few as one in seven of the estimated 30 million Americans with hearing loss gets aids, experts say, and a big reason is their high cost."
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“This legislation will make a life-changing difference for the millions of Americans with untreated hearing loss who don’t have access to hearing aid technology,” Warren said in a statement. “I’m really happy about the bipartisan coalition we’ve put together on this bill, in both chambers of Congress.”
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"A gun owners group argues that the legislation would impact hunters who purchase hearing enhancement devices as a way of better hearing their quarry. This, they say, is an infringement on their constitutional rights.
“In the past, antigun senators like Warren have used any pretext, however attenuated, to interfere with hunting and the exercise of Second Amendment rights,” the executive director of the Gun Owners of America, a group to the right of the bigger National Rifle Association and claims 1.5 million members, wrote in a May 16 letter to lawmakers laying out the group’s objections. “And we can only interpret this legislative initiative to be the most recent of these.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/05/28/elizabeth-warren-bill-hearing-aid-draws-opposition-from-gun-rights-conservative-groups/WMAAAo9Z8zAK7AzZnrRUII/story.html
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So let me get this straight, by making it easier to purchase hearing enhancement devices the gun grabbers are attempting to restrict access to, uh, hearing enhancement devices and is an infringement on the 2nd Amendment.
I wasn't even aware that hearing aids were covered in the 2nd Amendment but then THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY.
Well bless their little hearts . . .
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