Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Why do you support the NRA? I'm a responsible gun-owner and I still think they're the devil incarnate (okay, maybe not that bad.. but close). Like any special interest group of that caliber, they are motivated by money more than anything else. Part of the reason we can't have rational discussions on gun control is because the NRA pushed for legislation that prevented proper research into the issue (not unlike what Big Tobacco used to do...) while simultaneously urging their members to jerk their knees every time someone even suggests it. I would happily support an interest group (because they're not all bad) that wanted to preserve gun rights in a more rational way, but the NRA are just ignorance peddlers. They laugh all the way to the bank about this stuff.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The NRA gets results. Every special interest should be so lucky. If you measure an interest by the results and give credit accordingly, credit is due to the NRA.
You have bought into Obama's America narrative hook, line, sinker and should be better than that. What makes them any more money hungry than the people who work at the DNC? The RNC? Major corporations?

This debate has radicalized me further. I started out by wanting to compromise, saw the bad faith of the opposition first hand in NY and decided that they were too clever to work with and that we had to defeat them here. I like reasonable ideas. I want background checks on all transfers of firearms, but I don't want to be prosecuted on technicality or for the government to have any more information about our guns. In NY, you don't own your guns. The government has the right to confiscate any guns it finds if it believes that you are questionable - without warrant or any adjudication. Trust us in NY that see the political whims of government up-close. You should know that they don't believe that anyone should own guns. They are just biding their time.