Whom Does the NRA Really Speak For?

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Oh will you fucking stop already... So owning guns is outright support for the NRA but the only

reason I don't contribute to their causes is because I'm too broke? Fuck. Me. To. Tears.

For the Nth fucking time, I don't read their stuff, don't visit their website; don't support them in any fucking way whatsoever. Oh, and I guess because it needs to be stated outright; I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the NRA. In fact, the ONLY thing I know about their "talking points" is what I've read stated by DUers accusing other DUers of using them.

I support registration, enhanced background checks that include every member of a gun owner's household, laws requiring proper and safe storage of guns, regulation of semi-automatic rifles, and criminal penalties if a gun is not reported when stolen or lent and subsequently used in a crime.

So believing that the Second Amendment confers no rights upon me whatsoever is an NRA talking point, right? Believing that the Second Amendment (along with most of the rest of the Bill of Rights) is merely a list of things the government CANNOT do to me (such as infringe upon my right to own firearms for whatever reason I choose) is an NRA talking point, right?

Only one of the guns I own is younger than I am, and it's the only one I've ever purchased. Yet here you are, making a general statement that I've spent all my money on guns and ammo, thereby supporting gun manufacturers and gun stores and by association, the NRA. That's a little bit like saying because I own a 1972 Chevy Blazer, I support GM and THEIR pet causes.

I don't understand how it's lost on you that YOUR extremism is what's polarizing the issue so much here at DU. You and the one who idolizes the billionaire who purchased the office of mayor in New York City, and the ones who state in no uncertain terms their belief that good Democrats who own guns have the blood of at least 20 children on their hands. DON'T tell me you haven't seen those claims; you know they've been posted here.

You stifle discussion by calling anyone who doesn't agree with you an NRA supporter, then make statements like the one you made above... that the only reason most gun owners AREN'T dues paying NRA members is because they can't afford it due to spending "all their money on guns and ammo". Stop with the hyperbole and the cheap insults and reasonable discussion on the issue of gun control legislation just MIGHT be possible.