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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums7 Uncovered Quotes That Show How Far off the Rails the NRA Has Gone
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/7-uncovered-quotes-show-how-far-rails-nra-has-gone?akid=9959.277129.8QR7qY&rd=1&src=newsletter781692&t=7The 143-year-old National Rifle Association has not always been like today's NRA, fighting every gun control law as if the essence of American freedom depends on every citizen owning a gun. What follows are a series of shocking quotes taken from various academic histories of the NRA by top officials within the organization supporting reasonable gun control laws.
1. I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons, said NRA President Karl T. Frederick, a 1920 Olympic gold-medal winner for marksmanship who became a lawyer, praising state gun control laws in Congress. He testified before the 1938 federal gun control law passed. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.
2. We do think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States, NRA Executive Vice-President Franklin Orth told Congress, shortly after Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy with an Italian military surplus rifle Oswald bought from a mail-order ad in the NRAs American Rifleman magazine.
3. Theres no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons, said California Gov. Ronald Reagan in May 1967, after two dozen Black Panther Party members walked into the California Statehouse carrying rifles to protest a gun-control bill. Reagan said guns were a ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.
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7 Uncovered Quotes That Show How Far off the Rails the NRA Has Gone (Original Post)
xchrom
Jan 2013
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. K&R
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)2. It has gone as far off the rails as American Right Wing Politics
The scorched earth principle has been applied to everything they do.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)4. That Reagan quote is particularly excellent
K/R!
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)10. This person put me on their
ignore list! Too funny!
And so they cannot see this!
Hahahhahhaaa.
Made my day.
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)7. why did you post this in the middle of this thread?
it won't get the attention you seem to think it deserves here.
Loudestlib
(980 posts)6. They destroyed the compitition.
It was pretty easy for them to win. They had all the funding from the gun manufacturers that they needed. There opposition, on the other hand, has always been a self funded grass roots movement. They have nothing pushing back at them giving us balance.
Great article, based on a book, entitled Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler, pub 2011. Thanks, xchron, for the post.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)9. Kind of like comparing Dwight Eisenhower with todays Republicans.