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The NRA is the top political contributer of all the gun groups and the top lobby group according to Fortune magazine.

That means the leftists lose more elections and due to successful lobbying, the NRA can continue to fight gun control far better than the other groups. The programs the NRA funds also helps to promote the shooting sports to the non-shooting public. The biggest success has been the 35 states that have CCW. It stops the "no reason to own a handgun" debate with was the top political issue during the '70's.

The problem that remains is still the 95% of the gunowners who think gun control will never affect them or that crime is someone else's problem. It's taken 40 years for some of the gun owners to wake up to the fact that every gun control law affects them eventually. It isn't just "black" rifles or what happens in another state.

Funny, though, when I saw the title I thought it was about gun owners hating the NRA for being too soft.

Me, I join them all in the hope that at least one will get it right.

...the NRA can continue to fight gun control far better than the other groups.

As much as I admire the NRA, I believe that they have capitulated far too often. Whenever the NRA says, "Now this is a gun law we can live with," another victory is won by the anti-gun nuts. For example, the NRA helped negotiate the Calif. gun law SB 52 which reauires every handgun owner to obtain a Handgun Safety Certificate.

When it comes to the uncompromising defense of the right to keep and bear arms, the NRA needs to take a tip from Emeril and "kick it up a notch."