Another thing to remember is that the NRA wasn't a "conservative" organization until 1977. In fact, until the 1970s it was technically bipartisan and very much in favor of gun control legislation, but a small extreme minority membership took offense at the NRA's support of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, hooked up with the Republican party, and engineered a coup of the NRA leadership at their national convention in 1977. The NRA hasn't been about its original purpose since then -- it was hijacked by extremists and gun fetishists (and, as I understand it, the gun manufacturers themselves at one remove).
And just as a reminder, before Raj whips out one of his kneejerk genralizations, I grew up around hunters and hunting, I've done my own share of shooting as I grew up. I remember the parents and (later) friends who quit the NRA in disgust after seeing what the post-1977 leadership was up to.
And just as a reminder, before Raj whips out one of his kneejerk genralizations, I grew up around hunters and hunting, I've done my own share of shooting as I grew up. I remember the parents and (later) friends who quit the NRA in disgust after seeing what the post-1977 leadership was up to.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....