Government education is supposed to teach students, among other things, about our heritage, history and to respect the Rule of Law. Instead a national Vice President of the National Education Association (a union) said that those that support the Second Amendment should go to hell. Is this professional? Is this the role model we want for our kids? Yet hundreds of thousands of teachers are paying bribes to an organization that does not want the Constitution enforced—they want it repealed.
Teachers forced to pay bribes to this organization should be allowed to resign, and not have to pay bribes to any organization that is a political operation. What do you think?
““I’m not an ordained minister, I’m not a theologian, but these guys are going to hell,” she said during a panel discussion on curbing gun rights.
“We have to make those senators as frightened of us as they are of the gun lobby,” she added. “Shame on us if we give one inch to the gun lobby. They got where they are because they never give up. … Now the movement is us; we are the ones we were waiting for.”
Teachers union vice president: Supporters of gun rights ‘going to hell’
By: Joe Newby, Examiner, 6/24/13
While speaking to liberal activists at the Netroots Nation conference, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, vice president of the National Education Association, declared that supporters of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms are “going to hell,” EAG News reported Monday.
“I’m not an ordained minister, I’m not a theologian, but these guys are going to hell,” she said during a panel discussion on curbing gun rights.
“We have to make those senators as frightened of us as they are of the gun lobby,” she added. “Shame on us if we give one inch to the gun lobby. They got where they are because they never give up. … Now the movement is us; we are the ones we were waiting for.”
“It’s hard to see how supporting the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution could sentence one to an eternity in hell, but maybe in their ultimate wisdom, teachers union leaders know more than we do,” EAG News said.
Garcia and other liberal activists said those who want gun control need to pressure lawmakers with complaints and threats to withhold campaign funds if they do not comply.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, suggested using anecdotal evidence to make their point.
“When people see faces and when they are impacted individually, it changes minds,” she told attendees.
Since the tragic Newtown school shooting, liberals have used a variety of tactics to demonize gun owners in an effort to enact gun control.
Some, like Texas Democratic Party Executive Committee member John Cobarruvias, have suggested that supporters of gun rights be shot and killed.
“Can we now shoot the #NRA and everyone who defends them?” he tweeted.
He also wrote on Facebook that gun rights supporters need to be “wiped off the face of the earth.” He later deleted the messages and claimed his statements weren’t threats against gun owners.
Members of the media jumped on the anti-NRA bandwagon, with some — like Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul — suggesting supporters of gun rights be eliminated.
