Ravenwood - 10/14/03 06:00 AM
Yesterday, I mentioned that I am considering dropping my NRA membership because they are too liberal (much to the chagrin of my liberal GFW friends). If any of you pro-gun folks out there were doubting my claim, Kevin gives me yet another reason. In building a case for restoring DC residents rights to bear arms, NRA counsel seemed to go off the deep end. Kevin writes:
Fuck 'em when the counsel for the NRA says:Kevin is right. Gun grabbers will use the quote to push for gun registration. Registration, naturally, is the first step toward confiscation. It has already happened in England, Australia, California, and New York.YOUR HONOR, WE ARE HERE WANTING TO REGISTER HANDGUNS. WE ARE NOT HERE WANTING UNRESTRICTED ACCESS. WE'RE NOT HERE ASKING TO CARRY THEM, OTHER THAN IN THE HOME.Tell me that THAT quote won't show up in every anti-gun newsletter, publication, and website - and bet your ass it will end up on the Nightly News."We are here wanting to register handguns"???? Even IN context I cannot abide that statement.
You've gotta give the NRA a break... They're working pragmatically through the system, and that means demanding less to make incrimental steps towards a larger goal. Now if I honestly believed that the NRA desired gun registration itself as their ultimate end, I would agree with you, but I don't think that's the case.
A comparison would be a mainstream anti-abortion group insisting that they only want parental consent laws, with the obvious implication that they only want that small step in the current political context. If things were different, they'd be aiming higher -- and they work to make them different. I think all established special-interests operate this way, and they've been pretty successful.
Posted by: Owen Courrèges at October 14, 2003 5:54 PMI don't care what the N.R. fucking A. are trying to do.
Gun registration is a no-no, no matter what the underlying reason.
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