He claims the NRA has gotten so big and financially powerful through relationships with gun manufacturers that “they’re not a lobbyist on Capitol Hill, they’re a gun manufacturer rep.”
I refuse to believe this. Instead, I believe the NRA is made up of basically conservative people, many with military or law enforcement backgrounds, who have studied history and know that freedom depends on this individual right. Walsh appears to be someone who benefitted from a tragedy, became rich beyond his initial capabilities, traded up to a trophy wife, and now, surrounded by his affluence and protectors, claims the rest of us have no right to protect ourselves. In other words, he’s got his but the rest of us can’t have it.
“He claims the NRA has gotten so big and financially powerful through relationships with gun manufacturers that theyre not a lobbyist on Capitol Hill, theyre a gun manufacturer rep.”
That is simply reguritated failed Marxist economic theory. Here is what Professor Brian Anse Patrick has to say about it in “Rise of the Anti-Media”:
“But NRA is not the source of the power. The power lies in the matrix of horizontal associations that constitute the new gun culture. NRA has money because these people provide money, lots of it, regularly. They are not minions or “rank and file.” Emphatically, they do not serve the NRA; rather, NRA serves them as best it can.”
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-review-rise-of-anti-media-by-brian.html