Sonny, you’re the one stringing together incorrect assertions.

J. C. Salomon debunked one: the so-called “gun show loophole” and “private sale loophole” simply do not exist. As he points out, the law applies the same at gun shows as it does anywhere else. If someone is selling guns at a gun show and making a living at it without an FFL, the BATFE will come down on him like the proverbial ton of bricks and be right to do so. If not, then why should the government have the right to deny a private citizen the ability to sell a piece of personal property to another private citizen who may legally own it? This is true of no other object.

Comparing the US to other countries with gun bans is comparing apples to kumquats. Those countries do not have a Second Amendment, nor 350 million guns in private hands, nor an inner city thug culture that glorifies violence and drugs and money and their acquisition by any means necessary, legal or not.

Those 27 people each day are not killed “by guns”. A gun is an inanimate object, with no will of its own. Those people were killed by themselves or others who used a gun. Half of them were suicides. Many of the others were killed in legitimate self-defense, something gun grabbers like you never recognize as legitimate. And those 7 children? How many of them were between the ages of 18 and 25? The CDC’s gun researchers think those are children, as shown by the fact that their research was slanted by their inclusion. That is why their funding was cut off: their research was heavily, blatantly politicized. The American people’s tax money should not go to fund politicized research.

The bad guys who wanted to spray bullets into a crowd in Paris sure were stopped cold by France’s draconian gun laws, weren’t they? They had a real hard time getting their hands on semiautomatic firepower.

No wait, all those dead bodies put the lie to that statement.

Firearms are unregulated — well, not really; ask anyone who’s tried to go intot he firearms business — because there’s this pesky little foundational principle in American law that says the American people’s right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. There is no Constitutional right to keep and drive cars.

But think through your comparison to owning and operating cars before you call for firearms to be regualted the same way. I do not need a background check, or government approval, to purchase a car. I need no permission to operate it on private property. If I want to use the public streets, I can pass an objective test once and gain that right for the rest of my life, unless I move to a different state, at which time I must pass the same test over again, once. Once I have done so, my driving privileges cannot be taken away unless I commit enough illegal acts to warrant its revocation. My car does not need safety or emissions inspections, and never will as long as I live where I do. (Safety inspections are demonstrably useless, and nothing more than a racket for inspection stations.) Are you sure you want to be that lax in regulating firearms? I very strongly doubt it.

And as for those on the watch list: You do know that it takes just one statement from one FBI agent to land on a watch list, right? And once you’re on it, getting off of it is next to impossible without that same unelected bureaucrat’s agreement? Do the words “due process of law” hold any meaning for you? “Suspected” terrorists, or “suspected” anything, do not lose their civil rights until they are actually convicted of a crime. You would scream bloody murder if they lost their freedom of speech or peaceful assembly because someone put them on a watch list. The right to keep and bear arms is no different.

And Mother Jones is as hard left a gun-grabber rag as any you’re likely to find. It’s as credible on this issue as you would find American Rifleman, one of the NRA’s magazines, to be.

So no, the NRA is not a terrorist organization. It works to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding American citizens from just the kind of destruction you advocate. Your heart may be in the right place, but as long as you blame the tool instead of the hand that holds it, you will never propose any truly effective solutions.