I have a boilerplate rebuttal I use in the comments sections of various newspapers when they publish a gun article and the usual anti-NRA types sound off:
“Commenter. X, you and your fellow NRA-bashers can only blame yourselves for the NRA’s strength. Look on the upside though, for you have learned one of Life’s bitter lessons.
I have been a member of the NRA since 1956 and back then they were only interested in promoting marksmanship and gun safety. When the liberals started their anti-gun Jihad in the ‘60s, the upper echelon refused to get involved, saying it was “ungentlemanly” to get involved in that kind of politics.
After a few years of being pounded like a tent peg, the membership installed new blood, and in 1975, the NRA began to respond to those attacks by creating their own lobby and have since become the powerhouse they are today.
People like you remind me of the bloodied school-yard bully who, picking himself off the ground, complained ‘The fight started when he hit back.’”
They never reply.
The NRA needs to start or become a political party - that way we can find out who the true conservatives are. End the GOP disaster and let them (GOP) FORMALLY merge with the Dems.
I love that - hit them back with logic that shuts them up.