Posted on 03/28/2011 8:28:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
You might expect that the man who is incoming president of the National Rifle Association and was chairman of the American Conservative Union would be a double-barrel ideologue.
Not quite.
David Keene’s friends include liberal-leaning types like Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, former ABC correspondent Sam Donaldson, former New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, and former Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
Keene never hesitates to mention that his mother and father were labor union organizers in Wisconsin or that, as a teenager, he passed out literature for John F. Kennedy during the presidential primary.
Moreover, Keene has stood firm against attacks from within the conservative movement over his decision to keep the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) open to participation by such groups as GOProud, an organization of conservative gays.
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Skunks in the Henhouse??
At least the GOA has not actively attempted to undermined the 2A... the NRA? It is well known that their fingerprints are all over many pieces of anti-2A legislation.
More like foxes.
Come on, the B.S. meter just pegged on that one... Most of the victories these days are not due to the NRA, most have been pushed and fought for by local/state activists and groups.
Usually, if the NRA does show up, its after the legwork has been done, deny it as you may, a search of the facts proves it is so.
My membership to the NRA expires next year and I was willing to give them the benefit of a doubt, hoping that they had learned their lessons from the beating they took last year.
Obviously they learned nothing from the member backlash and the Keene matter just sealed the deal, I'm out.
The NRA is not lily white when it comes to the 2nd amendment. The 1968 gun control act was created by National Shooting Sports Foundation member companies with help from the NRA. It is documented and you will have to dig to find it. The NSSF members effectively shut off the imported and cheap weapons to make the domestic market their own and the NRA jumped right on board. The Heller case recently was very telling, the NRA Legal team actually did not support the case till the last minute, they even went out of there way to bad mouth the Heller legal team on many ocassions at several public venues while to case was in pre-trial and at the begining of the trial. The amicus brief by the NRA actaully is not part of the court records since it was sent late, just a PR stunt by the NRA when they realized the Heller case could be ruled in favor of the 2nd Amendment. Those are pesky FACTS.
No surprise here with this sh*tweed Keene at NRA throttles. The NRA is about creating the myth of protecting you, the taxpayer/citizen while making sure little is really done, so the funding to NRA keeps on going to them. The Heller decision was a major threat to this little game. THINK LARGE LABOR UNIONs and what they actually do for the members, ie not alot but they sure do have large slush funds and enjoy the big life in DC while doing very little. Additionally, the NSSF and SAAMI do not want a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment either. They just want to protect their markets. How do you think the 922c Commerce ruling came about that blocks barrels and internal parts from being imported came from? NSSF Lawyers with NRA Lawyers being quiet “suggested” this to a Federal Judge and Commerce Department got a “favorable” ruling. Favorable for who? Again, pesky facts....
I have been in the firearms industry for a long time and I can tell you the NSSF and NRA only care about what the SAAMI voting members want, not the 2nd Amendment or you the average gun owner, to them you are a source of revenue and that is all they care about.
Nevertheless, the latitude for compromise that goes with the job Keene has taken is fairly wide, and within that a single, seemingly harmless compromise such as the 1968 bill can open the door to disaster. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand entrusted with power becomes…the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."- Wendell PHILLIPS, January 28, 1852
I don't know about you but I don't have a problem with having the senate majority leader loosely on my team instead of firmly on my opponents team.
I know a number of leftists who pay lip-service to 2nd Amendment rights issues
and I know plenty of republicans who do the same and I don't vote for them just because they have an R by their name. I will vote and I have, in fact, voted against Republicans that didn't support the 2A.
it’s difficult for me to extend too much faith in people
On that we definitely agree...
Which is more dangerous to the sheep, a wolf in sheeps' clothing, or a wolf in wolves' clothing?
Or, to put it another way, when the bombs have to be dropped, I'd just as soon the enemy was in his own camp, not in mine.
Those who say Reid is “loosely on our team” are either dangerously naive beyond words, or flat out liars.
The NRA’s stated history has been in support of all major gun laws that have been passed in the past 100 years. They are proud of it.
Thanks. Your revision makes the metaphor work ;-)
What litigative victories has the NRA scored for the 2nd Amendment?
“That is not to say that I won’t be watching this Focker closely of course”.
Punchline to an old joke: “Oh, that’s right, Ma’am, but them Fockers was flyin’ Messerschmidts”!
Oh goody...
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