Recently the NRA had its annual meeting in Texas . There is nothing wrong in that except the message is completely mixed but it was not so obvious to the attendees. After hours of speeches and rhetoric the consensus was that the government was wrong to try taking guns from law abiding citizens. In the wake of the recent mass shootings no one except possibly some off the path organizations (ala NRA) have advocated taking guns from anyone in the United States. Consider the fact that the current Congress and the President cannot get a budget passed let alone anything else. The President, some of the Congress and other groups are seeking stronger laws to prevent (we hope) people who should not own or use firearms due to mental deficiencies, criminal records or other afflictions and conditions. The NRA represents about 4 million people out of 300 million yet purports to represent all. The main theme here is that the NRA does not represent all who own firearms and their theme of the Government taking away firearms is erroneous (yet many believe it to be true). One of the reported lines from Wayne’s sound bite was : “the government needs to enforce the existing laws and prevent mentally ill from obtaining and using firearms” This is exactly what the President and other members of Congress have proposed and failed to do due to the powerful NRA lobby and constituents. The question is: Whose side are they on? They (the NRA) have pressured the recipients of their largess with election failure if they went along with any firearm laws reform. I believe the real truth is that we are all on the same page but in different columns. Is the NRA so narrowly focused that the only thing they can do is fan the fires of discontent to support their own (financial) agendas?
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