“Part of the problem, I think, is that people who hate guns and gun rights cannot believe that people disagree with them in good faith. There must be evil motives, chiefly greed, that explain everything. The simple reality is that the NRA doesn’t need to spend a lot of money convincing politicians to protect gun rights. All it needs to do is spend a little money clarifying that a great many of those politicians’ constituents care deeply about gun rights. If you don’t know anyone who has a gun, you live in a bubble.” – Jonah Goldberg in The true secret of the NRA’s success [via nypost.com]
IMI Systems Quote of the Day: Anti-Gunners Misrepresent the Source of the NRA’s Influence
Dan Zimmerman
“If you don’t know anyone who has a gun, you live in a bubble.”
In which case, you may very well know someone who owns a gun, but has never told you about it (even if you think you’re their best friend) because they know how you’d react.
I think most politicians get it. Even Obama talked about how gun owners are passionate about protecting their rights.
But they need someone to demonize when they don’t get their way. They need someone to blame when their statist agenda fails to get legislative traction. The NRA is a convenient, nameless, faceless scapegoat.
The idea of the average security guard with a gun makes me more nervous than the average citizen walking around with a gun. An ordinary citizen knows he’s just an ordinary citizen. Security guards perceive themselves to have “authority.” I’ve been harassed by a private security guard at a public library simply for taking too long in the bathroom near closing time — he didn’t think “I’ll be done when I’m done.” was an acceptable response. The exchange got pretty heated as I’m not one to quietly be bullied by some official jerk while I’m trying to take a crap. The guy was just the sort of overbearing bully for whom combining perceived authority with a gun would be bad.
I purchased this in the 9 mm version. It is the biggest disappointment of my gun / pistol buying career. Mag & charging handle issues right out of the box. CMMG has not returned any of my E-mails. My phone calls are only met with: “Someone will call you back about your problem.” After 7 calls to date, No one has called back. I’ve been put On-Hold, only to have the line go dead after about 10 minutes. I’ve had the pistol a week & have only been able to get 3 rounds off & it was by manually loading the round into the chamber by hand
I agree that this is probably as good as it’s gets for the NRA in this situation, but I would not call it genius. They have, in fact, accepted a premise put forth by the antis that some guns/features are bad. That will come back at them.
I just perused Open Secrets again for the same reason just a couple days ago. Indian Gaming and Alcohol for instance both outspent the all gun rights orgs in campaign donations 2 and 3 to 1 respectively.
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Once again we see the NRA is the BIGDOG. I’ll continue to support them…and ignore their pleas for more $. Get rid of old Wayne…
The whole argument that the NRA is just representing “the gun industry” is just blaming the corporate boogy man that liberals like to blame for a lot of things.
Where is Alex Jones? FALSE FLAG! OBAMA PLANNED THIS!
It’s a poor man indeed who cannot learn from another who seems to just do things better. In the area of security, Israel has no rival. Since we now face a threat similar to the one Israel has faced now for about 70 years, shouldn’t we defer to the expertise they have learned by practice? I know that, if I ever fly to the Holy Land, I will gladly pay what it costs to make sure I travel with El Al. They know what they are doing.
If they want to be litigious they should sue the concert venue for not providing adequate security.
In the future I bet there will be “contract agreements” that need to be agreed to on every ticket that when you check the box or whatever, explicitly states that you will not hold the venue or whomever liable for any injury…
This is what happens at the end of the empire…
He should have shot up Morgan & Morgan, instead. Actually, any of the big law firms that “ambulance chase” on T.V. would make a suitable target of opportunity. These big law firms are among the biggest funders of the anti-gun Demorat party.
I’ve heard negative things about those Micro Desert Eagle’s and it’s not like the prices or availability are reasonable to warrant testing them myself. They are very small tho, which peaks my interest. Wish more manufacturers would make a .380 with a 2 inch barrel.