Comment

NRA Press Conference Summed Up: More Guns

135
EPR-radar12/21/2012 2:07:30 pm PST

re: #134 Shiplord Kirel

I reject that. Any responsible person can see that there is a lot of distance between the NRA’s positions and a blanket prohibition on firearms. The NRA does everything possible to obscure and confuse this however.

Reasonable people that get pissed off at the NRA extremism may well harden their own positions in response. The more I know about the NRA and its advocacy, the more likely I am to support sweeping bans. This is actually what the NRA wants, since its leadership is fighting part of the culture wars, and could not possibly care less about any rational issues relating to gun ownership.

For the NRA leadership, guns themselves are pretty much irrelevant. The point of their activity is to drive the narrative that civilization is failing, and that the only policies to consider in the face of this disaster are primitive, irrational and fear-driven (i.e., from the movement conservative playbook). Guns are merely the medium through which this message is being played.