NRA and Outdoor Writers Have Falling-Out

[lcooksey]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39731-2004Jul9.html

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The president of the National Rifle Association warned a convention of outdoor writers last month that it should not be seduced by environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club, which promise to protect hunting habitat but actually are scheming to ban guns.

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"The National Rifle Association locked, loaded and fired its best shot at the Sierra Club . . . only to have the blast explode in its face," wrote Tom Stienstra in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Wray said there are "a great many hunters out there like me. I am a registered Republican. I am a longtime member of the NRA. But George Bush's administration scares me to death, when it comes to the environment."

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The NRA's insistence on drive-close hunting has, itself, generated considerable heat among outdoor writers. An editorial last month in the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune said that "most of the legions of people insisting on a driveway right" to hunt "simply have more invested in their beer bellies than their boots."

[DarkPhenyx]

1. Oh sweet!

Fat lazy bastards that can't walk out to hunt don't need to be hunting and probably shouldn't own guns anyway.

[rfranklin]

2. That's hunting New York-L.A. style...

Drive-by shooting from a car window at 60 miles-per-hour.

[StClone]

3. Gee you think

That if you have no place to hunt shooting skeet all day for some is BORING! So protecting the out of doors so there are real places to hunt and ENJOY the wild (if you are a true out doors person) makes sense.

[MrBenchley]

4. The NRA is more interested in pushing an extremist agenda

and electing Republicans...

[StClone]

5. And money

The NRA is interested in selling guns and ammo the right to profits supersedes common sense (using a Constitutional distortion to boot).

[HuckleB]

6. I love that editorial quote from Lewiston.

If you're too lazy to hunt, then don't do it.

Sheesh.

[Khephra]

7. There's a group that's worse than Driveway Hunters

And that's Cage Hunters.

Both Cheney and Bush Sr. (I think W as well) belong to a group that imports rare animals like lions to the US. The animals are then put into cages and starved until they are a shadow of their former selves.

And once the animals are too weak to put up a fight, a group of "hunters" are let into the cages to shoot the sick animals as trophies.

I don't have anything against real hunters, but killing rare sick animals is contemptible.

[thebigidea]

8. that has creeped me out about Cheney for a while now...

that little bit of "fun" that involved him slaughtering hundreds of penned pheasant... its as if the hunting part of the equation didn't matter to him, it was the QUANTITY, the FREQUENCY, and more importantly, THE KILLING.

[oldcoot]

9. What is next? Escalators for hunters

Why not put escalators in hunting areas? We would not want to force any of these hunters to actually walk up hills, would we?

[Desperadoe]

10. Here in PA

We've always called these slobs "Road Warriors".

They ride around in their SUV's with a beer in one hand and a rifle in the other and a NRA sticker on the bumper right next to the Bush/Cheney 2004 bumper sticker.

Landowners hate them with a passion and they have caused more damage to the reputation of legal hunting than any other group. It's illegal but they do it anyway.

As much as I despise these slobs and the NRA in general, I also blame the Democrats for the problem. If not for the ridiculous gun control legislation that is a part of the Democratic platform most legitimate hunters and gun owners would not support the NRA at all.