re: #72 dragonath

I have a question for the lizards—- do any of you remember a time when the NRA wasn’t nuts? I’ve been told that it was a non-partisan group with a bit conservation focus before LaPierre came on the scene.

I was a member in the late 80s/90s (junior for part of it, I did a lot of shooting, some semi-competitive stuff). My recollection isn’t all that great, but I know they’ve become very politically active in the past ~15 or so years, and at this point are nothing more than an extension of the Republican right-wing. LaPierre has pretty much steered them into nutter/conspiracy territory.