Reply #15: Check your meds [View All]

NRA and GOA are special interest groups lobbying for a specific agenda. It couldn't be more open and shut than that. They happen to be better at what they do than a lot of other special interest groups but then again, that's how this system works.

As to weak laws not being enforced, that's hardly the fault of either group. There are already sufficient laws on the books to prosecute and incarcerate gun-using criminals, if they were to be enforced. That is a decision that rests with the police and district attorney's across the US and I doubt you can produce even one case where the NRA or GOA intervened in a case where the law was being enforced.

I have no problem with people owning guns, though I do not own one myself. I am more concerned with people who have a few drinks too many, or a few too many puffs of marijuana and then attempt to pilot their 3000 lb Cadillac down the highway.

I have been robbed at gunpoint by a teenager with a handgun. I'm willing to bet he didn't have a license for that handgun. It wasn't the gun that made that kid a criminal. If he and his two buddies didn't have a gun they might have opted for a baseball bat, or a crowbar or a switchblade. Either way I still would have been robbed.

One of the gripes the NRA guys have is that the "lefties" real intent is to disarm this country and eliminate RTBA outright. Instead the left mumbles how they don't want to do what is clearly part of THEIR agenda, just like the righties claim that stopping "partial birth" abortions is NOT an attack on Roe v Wade.

This country would be a lot better off if we would just be upfront and honest about what we are doing.

But that would require trust in the "sheeple" wouldn't it?

After all, we know what's best.