Liberal Gun Club?

Being a liberal and a gun owner is a bit of a contradiction, because if you love guns, why would you love the people that want to ban them?

Marlene Hoeber is feisty, tattooed, transgender, a self-described feminist, a queer activist – and a crack shot with her favorite “toys,” guns of just about every kind.

One thing she’s not – and proud of it – is a member of the National Rifle Association.

“We make ourselves a special place where we don’t have to hear about the ‘Kenyan Muslim socialist’ in the White House,” said Hoeber, a biotech equipment mechanic who says she’s politically “somewhere around Emma Goldman,” the turn-of-the-20th century anarchist.
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Liberals-find-comfort-level-in-NPR-of-gun-clubs-5107330.php

And what will you do when the “Kenyan Muslim socialist” comes for your guns? “Come on, Obama, I’m one of the good ones.” Sorry sweetheart, in the liberal world the only good gun owner is a dead gun owner. Or have you forgotten how Bloomberg wouldn’t let the National Guard bring their guns to Brooklyn?

It’s unlikely that Norquist, the conservative organizer, would find much to like about the liberal group that boasts more than 1,000 members nationally, including a recently formed Northern California chapter with about a dozen members.

The Liberal Gun Club backs a wide-open interpretation of the Second Amendment that lets law-abiding citizens possess just about any type of gun. But that’s where its similarity to the NRA ends.

If that’s the case, why are they at war with the NRA? And why is anyone speculating about what Norquist would like? Ask the man! He has a phone number, e-mail account, etc.

“If I walk into a gun store with an Obama T-shirt – which I wouldn’t wear, because he’s too conservative – I don’t fit,” joked Eric Wooten, a longtime California Democratic Party activist and member of the Liberal Gun Club.

Eric, we’re the NRA, not the KKK, we don’t ban anyone from showing up to a gun club.   When I go to The Shooter’s Depot, I don’t generally approach strangers for conservation, I’m there to shoot the guns, not shoot the sh-t, LOL.

The NRA is “a valuable organization” that has helped educate people about the safe use of guns, Hoeber said. But in recent years, its leaders “have attached themselves to reactionary politics,” she said.

“I can’t put money into a group that gives campaign contributions to people who (say) how terribly wrong it is to walk down the street holding my girlfriend’s hand,” Hoeber said.

Really? And who defends you when the gay bashers come running to beat you up? Your marriage license or your 38 special? The NRA doesn’t give a crap about social issues, when a Democrat is more pro-gun than a Republican, the Democrat gets the endorsement. Harry Reid is extremely liberal, yet the NRA gives him an “A” because his voting record has been pro-gun.

The club praised Gov. Jerry Brown when he vetoed seven gun-control bills in the last legislative session, including one by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, that would have required gun owners to register their low-capacity rifles as assault weapons if they had detachable magazines. New sales of such weapons would have been banned.

More regulations on lawful gun owners “are overprescribed political placebos that fail to cure … the root causes of violence,” the gun club said in a position statement. Instead of “window-dressing ‘solutions’ like so-called ‘assault weapons’ bans and magazine capacity restrictions,” the group argued, government should back “mitigation for violence prevention: stronger mental health care, addressing poverty, homelessness and unemployment.”

The group also views monetary disincentives to gun ownership, such as ammunition taxes, as “class barriers” blocking the poor from exercising their constitutional rights.

Well, I guess there is some light at the end of the liberal tunnel.

The Liberal Gun Club is “the only place that would have me,” he said with a laugh, while loading his weapon. “A lot of us here have been kicked out of other gun forums because of our liberal views.’

Cry me a river, FreeRepublic.com kicked me out three times, now they sometimes publish my blogs. Here’s an idea, when you go to a gun forum, stick to gun topics. Remember that gun owners are a fraternity, we’re not going to agree on everything but we’re supposed to protect one another.