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Originally Posted by warch
It's a freakin' poltiical lobbying organization for arms manufacturers and a vehicle to promote a political wedge.
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The NRA has never pretended to be anything but a lobbying organization. They are single-issue, as lobbying orgs tend to be. They are the counterpoint to HCI, et al, who seek to take away the right of law-abiding citizens to use weapons to defend themselves. These anti-gun lobbying organizations are no less extreme for their "what about the CHILDREN??" bullshit tactics and fake statistics. Yin and yang -- one is no more
[insert cusswords here] than the other. I just hope my side wins; taking away my freedom won't make
you any safer, but it will add decades to the lifespan of anyone who victimizes me or my family. Hope that makes you feel better.
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Guns are getting too old fashioned these days for genocide, anyway. Will the NRA support my right to legally protect myself with a nice dirty bomb?
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No, that's the NNDBA. NRA only cares about guns.
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Ive found that staunch Libertarians are unrealistic, cultish, isolationist, and I think, foolish.
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So are Trekkies, Quakers, RPGers, programmers, muzzleloader enthusiasts, skydivers, and any other group worth its salt.
But how foolish is the "mainstream?" The real laugh comes from us. We crave government intervention in every aspect of our lives. We want government to provide for our needs while regulating what we eat, drink, or smoke (but not what we have sex with, or what we do with the result). We want them to protect speech that is hateful to one group, while outlawing speech that's hateful to another. We want police to be at our doorstep within seconds when we need them, but to be otherwise invisible.
We think we deserve to buy 50 cent per bale toilet paper from Warehouse R Us, but we don't want the people who own the joint to make any money. We think we deserve to drive cars, but don't want the oil. We don't want anyone cutting down forests, but we buy new houses instead of old ones. We don't want any "racial profiling" going on, so to stop 30-year-old Arab men from putting bombs on busses, we search 80-year-old white women.
Yeah, those libertarians are wacky.