| pokoko said: The NRA is absurdly powerful. They can determine if a bill passes or fails. Our supposed representatives wait on the NRA before taking action. They can determine who is elected in local office. It's frightening. People should hold no illusions about the organization. It's there to protect the gun industry. The receive millions from firearm manufacturers. It's about money and power. First and foremost, they are a lobby for the gun industry and they put the needs and desires of the gun industry above all else. No one should ever forget that. |
Wrong, actually. The NRA is the tail that wags the dog of the gun industry: when the gun industry tries to embrace things like "smart firearms," for instance, they get the boycott threat from the NRA (say Smith & Wesson wants to make a handgun that only the registered owner can fire. NRA goes out and tells everyone to not buy Smith & Wesson, Smith & Wesson folds).
They are a right-wing, reactionary force which enacts a right-wing, reactionary agenda that happens to have something to do with guns. Much of what they do has nothing to do with guns, and they drive gun owners to try to be more right-wing. They don't represent gun owners, they try to get gun owners to do and think what they say: if you're registered, you get on their mailing list and get all of their propaganda.
The thing is that it wasn't always that way. They used to just basically be a national sportsman's organization, relatively non-partisan, before they became like a political party all their own.
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