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Really? Lobbying is really nothing more that "petitioning the government for redress of grievances", which is of course protected by the First Amendment. You or anyone else has the absolute right to communicate with those elected to make laws and administer the government and to try to persuade them to make decisions that you favor. Lobbyists are just professionals who do just that. I would think eliminating lobbyists would face a Constitutional hurdle.
I suspect that the antipathy felt toward the NRA is due to the fact that you are personally opposed to what they are working for. If you replaced NRA with Planned Parenthood, or the AFL-CIO, or some other politically active group, you would react very differently. The NRA is really no different from those groups in their political activities. If they are more powerful (and I see no evidence that they are), it's only because they represent a larger group of like minded individuals than those other groups do.
I think you are directing your ire at the wrong person here, I oppose the way lobbying is currently done. Regarding the bolded....you are completely wrong, I am very consistent in my views.
Oh, by the way LIFETIME MEMBER NRA Read my post history.
What the NRA wields is the power of roughly six million voters who put their gun rights above almost every other issue. Some people are quick to say it's the money, but let's be honest here. Politicians fear only one thing and that is a block of hostile voters.
It's not only the 6 million NRA members, it's the tens of millions of others who vote that are not too willing to relinquish their civil liberties to a political party that puts the interests of illegal invaders above the interests of American citizens. A political party who's goal is to turn the United States into a third world socialist aristocracy of which they have absolute power and control. Although they'll never admit to it, that's always been their goal, the only thing stopping them is the 2nd Amendment and Constitutional law.
I think you'll find that most of the people who wish to preserve the 2nd Amendment and Constitutional law are diametrically opposed to damn near everything that the Democrat Party stands for, including yours truly. The Democrats are nothing more than a bunch of lying hypocrites and self righteous demagogues.
Just look at the last person they nominated for president. Or our last president, friend of Farrakhan and disciple of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. They sure tried to cover all that up with every excuse imaginable.
I am glad he was stopped, too. However, we still do not know whether he intended to kill anyone else. Why make the assumption when there are as yet no facts to support it?
Because he had a gun on school grounds and had already shot two people. If you're a police officer, those are times you don't stop and ask questions.
For those who have not seen this, this is some background on the SRO (school resource officer) who stopped the shooter from possibly injuring or killing more kids.
As I have made very clear in many previous points, I am definitely not a "gun nut", but I think this man, Deputy Blaine Gaskill, is a HERO.
And how many people have said you wouldn't find this story on CNN or any other "MSM" outlet? I'm glad this guy was there and not another Scott Peterson.
Agree, which is why demonizing the NRA is sheer stupidity.
The NRA serves as the bagman to keep any sort of legislation from being considered. We're still waiting to hear whether they bought their GOP congresspeople with Russian money, which would be the end of them.
Why blame the gun? It's simply not right. Here I (we) are law-abiding citizens. We are very responsible with our guns. We don't let kids use guns until maybe they are older and have been shown to be responsible themselves. My gun has no impact on anybody else while I am a law-abiding citizen. It really stinks that a few mentally disturbed people give guns a bad reputation. We don't need any restrictions on possession or usage of guns.
That all sounds familiar, right?
Ok, now swap gun with marijuana.
For the record, I don't partake in either of the things mentioned above. I just do find it fascinating that advocates of one can completely ignore the comparison of the other.
Marijuna has never killed anyone though except maybe if a big enough bale fell on someone.
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