re: #399 goddamnedfrank

The problem really began when the NRA stopped trying to grow or focus exclusively on how to best practically defend the RTBA and instead became just another insular, generic faction within the broader right wing culture war. The more and more radical and unhinged they got the more they isolated themselves by alienating non-conservative gun owners, a process that quickly formed a runaway positive feedback loop of derp -> isolation -> wagon circling paranoia -> more derp …

I think a large part of the recent fallout may start with yesterday’s speech by Wayne, where he pretty much ditched any pretense of the NRA being anything but the gun lobbying arm of the GOP.