As the NRA fades, a more zealous US pro-gun group rises as a lobbying power
As the NRA fades, a more zealous US pro-gun group rises as a lobbying power
Gun Owners of America, formed in belief NRA was ‘too liberal’, spent $3.3m lobbying against gun control and boasts 2m members
The GOA is an adamant enemy of gun control measures of all stripes, and proudly calls itself the “no compromise” gun lobby. Its surge in lobbying spending reflects one way it has capitalized on the financial and legal problems of the once 5 million-member NRA in the hopes of expanding the GOA’s political clout, say gun experts.
“The GOA was formed in the 1970s because they believed the NRA was too liberal,” said Robert Spitzer, the author of several books on guns and a professor emeritus at Suny Cortland in New York. “True to its creed, the GOA has opposed every manner of gun law and attacked the NRA at every turn.”
Unrelated and on a lighter note, I'm about to head to the grocery store and their logo reminded me I was out of baking soda.
The right to bear arms is a liberal value. The new kids are fascist extremists.
The right to bear arms is a liberal value.
That sounds like a very archaic and irrelevant definition of "liberal."
Millennials will push for a Consitutional Repeal of 2A before all is said and done.
Or enough of them will get brainwashed and we’ll just keep on keeping on with the status quo.
That'd be nice. I've lived in the states and currently the EU and not living somewhere where there is literally more guns than there are people in the country is real nice. People aren't just getting shot all the time here. Imagine that.
Ok but what do you do in gym class if not play dodge bullet
Works for me!
With constitutional originalism being all the rage nowadays, a person could certainly ask what sort of arms existed at the time of writing.
I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
The appropriate work hasn't been done at the state level to pave the way and that's probably at least 20-30 years out, if ever.
We really need to scrap the current Constitution and create another one based on current known best practices. Maybe start with the 7N Bill of Human Rights (or whatever it's called). A constitutional convention would be pretty scary given today's political climate, though - see first paragraph.
Not gonna happen any time soon unfortunately.
It's not like they're being given any other choices.
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I think that would be wise
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Its surge in lobbying spending reflects one way it has capitalized on the financial and legal problems of the once 5 million-member NRA in the hopes of expanding the GOA’s political clout, say gun experts.
“The GOA was formed in the 1970s because they believed the NRA was too liberal,” said Robert Spitzer, the author of several books on guns and a professor emeritus at Suny Cortland in New York.
As it has ramped up its influence activity in Washington, the GOA also touts its member chapters and allies including the California Gun Rights Foundation and other ones in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas.
“To that end, it is raising and spending more money, filing more suits against gun laws, and has formed its own Super Pac and political victory fund.
“The NRA’s loss has been GOA’s gain,” Kristen Rand, a veteran lawyer with the Violence Policy Center, a gun control advocacy and research group, told the Guardian.
One alert warned: “Now, Biden and the anti-gun lobby are dialing up the pressure on the same cowardly Republicans to find support for the next item on their endless wish list of gun control … a national ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ and normal capacity magazines.”
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