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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA apology to Open Carry shows that the NRA is a gun marketing group, not a rights lobby
It shouldnt have happened, NRA Institute for Legislative Action director Chris Cox said on theCam and Co. radio show. Ive had a discussion with the staffer who wrote that piece, and expressed his personal opinion. Our job is not to criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners.
To understand why they did this, you have to understand the marketing pressures on the gun industry. I wrote a piece about this for Alternet, but to summarize: The normal, responsible gun owner who enjoys sport shooting but keeps their gun locked away responsibly and knows you dont need a mini-arsenal to enjoy guns is a dying breed. However, the development of the paranoid, highly insecure right winger who feels this pressing needs to prove the manliness he is secretly worried he doesnt have is? Now thats a gold mine. That guy will buy gun after gun after gun, hoping that if he drowns himself in scary-looking weapons, those secret insecurities will be kept at bay.
If the NRA really was a gun rights lobby whose interest was in protecting responsible gun owners, then the leave your guns at home, son stance is the correct one. If they are a gun industry lobby interested in stoking the belief that your can regain your manhood by waving a bunch of AR-15s at suburban moms having lunch with their kids at McDonalds, then kissing the ass of the idiots at Open Carry Texas is the best way to go about it. The NRA isnt interested in promoting the interests of responsible gun owners. Theyre interested in selling guns. The nuts who wouldnt know responsibility if it bit them on the ass are the people who are buying guns right now. The NRA is like any marketing group: They are interested in provoking insecurity so they can sell you a product that supposedly fixes it. Theyre no more going to tell gun owners to cut it out with the embarrassing gun displays than Ferrari is going to encourage drivers to obey the speed limit and consider the value of driving a more sensible vehicle like a Volkswagen instead.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/04/nra-apology-to-open-carry-shows-that-the-nra-is-a-gun-marketing-group-not-a-rights-lobby/
global1
(25,288 posts)the open display of weapons on the street. The host was trying to get him to admit that when a person sees another person with a gun in the open - that it scares them - and this guy just wasn't going to admit that.
I then thought that the reason people buy guns - is because they are afraid of other people that may have a gun that may harm them or their family. Yet this guy wouldn't admit that if other people saw him carrying a gun that they would be afraid.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)a supermarket or bank openly carrying a loaded gun in their hand.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts).... but I could go with a marketing group that relies upon hate
onehandle
(51,122 posts)And attach the name of every card carrying member.
Turbineguy
(37,385 posts)Let's not be harshing Ferrari!
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)The NRA's real purpose is to sell as many guns as possible.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)4lbs
(6,865 posts)Oh, did I mention Gunz?
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(25,966 posts)Response to phantom power (Reply #10)
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EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)Uh oh, looks like FreeRepublic has lost one if its sheep.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Your band of idiots weren't welcome here before and they are not now.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that is a dead giveaway
47of74
(18,470 posts)The teabagging fucksticks where I live think it's so cool to spell it demokrat.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)dead kids be damned???