I think it's a little over the top to blame the NRA for the entire shift in political culture that we've seen since the 60's. You can say they failed to stop it, but I think it's a bit much to say that they are responsible for causing it. (but maybe I read you wrong)
I think the NRA is a different organization now than it was in the 60's. and like I said, I believe there is a place for a "no-compromise" view, but I don't think the GOA effectively delivers it. They spend too much time beating on their friends and family.
"Well at least you're being polite about it," --
" their exaggeration -- [the GOA's] -- allows our enemies to depict us as a bunch of lying idiots."
Gotta love all that politeness.
I like EdReforms comments in #47 I belong or contribute to GOA, JPFO, and SAF, I just have had long term problems with NRA, and I have really tried. I do belong to a local NRA affiliated club, sort of have to in order to shop or buy through CMP. I do believe they all serve a purpose in the fight to retain that which the founders worked so hard to give us.
When I first read this article, I mused that a much simpler and effective solution, would be to hang the two authors for their arrogant stupidity, making them an example of what should happen to every single individual proposing to undermine the Constitution of the United States of America, and the safety of it’s citizens.
Thanks for the ‘polite’ complement, hope this answer doesn’t put me in the “over the top” category. I don’t suffer idiocy very well, and Mrs McCarthy ought to know full well what anyone with a weapon would have been able to do for her husband and son while they were being gunned down along with many others on the evening train.