If they weren't killing our kids in the crossfire, I'd almost feel sorry for the NRA nuts.
They're operating out of such a place of fear, so many of them have been traumatized by something -- a robbery, a shooting, break in, or a vivid enough tale of of some unformed terror. We even see it among the progressive firearm enthusiasts, no more immune than the next person. Fear is so powerful...
...And the NRA culture pounces on them, with all the ethics and effect of Al Qaeda arriving in an impoverished region, promising fantasies of protection, righteousness, and vengeance. Giving meaningless focus to an unfocused fear, all to advance the goals of the leadership. With zero authentic care for their members, who all believe the precise opposite. That their cause is just, God stands with them.
Again, as with Al Qaeda, but for the deaths, I'd find a corner of my bleeding heart to feel sorry for them. 
