Bill Maher says REP Party is owned by the gun lobby and NRA should change its name to assassins lobby.Thoughts?

I think Bill is trying to get ratings by being inflammatory. Nothing new, I'd expect the same from Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh if they appeared on a talk show. I think his trying to draw a distinction between the rhetoric of the right and left is laughable. There are quotes from SITTING CONGRESSPEOPLE (which seems to be upping the ante compared to radio or TV show hosts) directly calling for people to "Put him up against the wall and shoot him" or to "Take up pitchforks" if votes don't go their way. You can also put material published by the DLC next to anything "inflammatory" Palin came out with and there's not a single shred of difference. So it's not as direct, it's even MORE direct! I guess if the majority of your audience doesn't consist of gun owners then it's not bad, right? I mean, that's basically what he's trying to claim. Unfortunately he doesn't stop to think that it only takes ONE nutjob in the audience to blow that theory to hell and gone. EXACTLY the same as with the conservative crowd! Sure the majority may be gun owners, but the majority are also law abiding citizens. Once again, it only takes one nutjob. There is no distinction unless you're going to claim that the rhetoric is going to make a law abiding gun owner go crazy and start shooting people. Has that happened yet? Or did we see a deranged, likely insane individual freak out? You are just as likely to find that nutjob in the ranks of the democrats as in the republicans. Finally, regarding "months of police or military training" there is a section in the monthly magazine you get from the NRA entitled "The Armed Citizen". It has stories from around the country of people stopping crimes with their guns. Most have no formal training. You can also point out that privately owned guns in the hands of citizens stop an estimated 2.5 million crimes per year. I doubt the majority of those have formal training either.