To: driftdiver; Alaska Wolf
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He probably works for the NRA and is working on a secret deal to support this bill."
Certain television celebrities who posed as conservatives and lost in primaries are no longer influencing the NRA. As for LaPierre, he's not like those fake conservatives.
From
Wikipedia:
In the wake of the the Oklahoma City bombing, LaPierre wrote a fundraising letter describing federal agents as "jack-booted government thugs" who wear "Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms." Former president George H. W. Bush was so outraged by the letter that he resigned his NRA Life membership.[2]
268 posted on
12/27/2012 8:17:54 PM PST by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
Certain television celebrities who posed as conservatives What does that have to do with this?.... retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. The gulf-war hero disclosed to NEWSWEEK last week that he had quit the NRA a few years ago. They are "very inflexible and almost radical," he said. "They appeal to a fringe element of gun owners."
270 posted on
12/27/2012 8:25:17 PM PST by
Alaska Wolf
(Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
To: familyop
I was referring to the NRA which has supported all major gun control laws in the last 90 years.
They do some good stuff but have a serious case of bi-polar at times.
282 posted on
12/28/2012 3:15:23 AM PST by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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