No, the only thing that matters to the Tom Teepens of the world is that no one HE KNOWS is an NRA member. Liberals have small, closed circles of like-thinking people. An idea outside what is embraced by his group is simply wild and extreme.
Remember what some noted New York liberal said after Reagan carried 49 states. "I cannot BELIEVE Reagan won by a landslide. I don't know a SINGLE PERSON who voted for Reagan." If it's not within their group, to them - it doesn exist.
Michael
Ah, they probably "do" know someone who is an NRA member--they just don't know that they know them. Most of us NRA members aren't constantly advertising the fact to friends and neighbors--just to our legislators.
The late Pauline Kael, the insanely liberal movie reviewer for decades at The New York Slimes newspaper, actually made this comment about Nixon's after his win in '72.
I think you give them too much credit - "thinking"?? How can you call their mental dysfunction "thinking"? - LOL!!
You've nailed it, though, in that they surround themselves with others who spout the same intellectually vacuous rhetoric. Sort of like pondscum standing up for its right to float aimlessly on the surface of some fluid (poluted or not,) caring not for any possible underlying situation (i.e., extremely shallow - LOL!)!