Reply #140: Can't name any can you?

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All you can do is post an interview in which CNN states that the NRA, a grassroots organization with four million CURRENT members, is second in the nation in terms of lobbying and political clout.

No shit?

Lobbyists paid by four million citizens, with millions more expired members, and nearly one hundred million people DIRECTLY showing support for their cause (even if you aren't a member, owning a gun is voting with your dollars) has considerable political influence? I wonder why?

I am actually pretty happy to see that the big three of lobbying all happen to be broad-based organizations looking out for general interests of the population. We will all get old, almost all of us have to work, and every one of us (barring cook county, d.c., nyc, massachusetts, NJ, etc.) has the right to keep and bear arms.

Aren't you glad that oil interests or construction contractors aren't at the top of the heap? Don't you think it's a good thing that the most ear is given to the groups comprised of huge swaths of the American population?

Check this out-

"MIKE BARNES, HANDGUN CONTROL, INC.: They have a very vocal tiny minority of American citizens who overwhelm the majority because they are so vocal and they're so vehement. So politicians are afraid of them."

A very interesting quote, since "a very vocal tiny minority of American Citizens" sounds almost exactly like the description of people just like mr. Barnes.

Why do they care about things like heavy expensive target rifles? why do they care about IDPA guns?