Reply #25: One of the groups the NRA helped arm themselves were southern blacks. [View All]

[TheWraith]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justice

Yes, in recent years the reins of the NRA have been taken over by right-wing nutjobs--but that's in large part because we let a group of third-way/Republican refugees fuse anti-gun laws into the platform of the Democratic Party in the 80s and 90s. People tend to forget that JFK was a lifetime NRA member, that Jefferson said it was the duty of all men to be armed, that MLK sought to own a gun to defend his family, and that Eleanor Roosevelt was famous for carrying a pistol for self defense.