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TailGator · March 20, 2018, 03:22 PM

zukiphile, go back to last month's American Rifleman and read LaPierre's column. Dr. Meyer's comments are only slight exaggerations. LaPierre rants about socialism and education, is overtly partisan, and comments on Obamacare and financing university education. (I don't have it hand to give you quotes.) Those are not the issues of the NRA. We should be a single-issue organization. As for partisanship, polls usually show something on the order of 1/3 of registered voters disagreeing with their party's line about gun control. Why would we want to alienate 1/3 of either party who agrees with us? That is something on the order of 50 million people whose support we reject by the rhetoric that is presented.

Is the goal firing up the base? Fund raising? Or changing minds by calmly presenting well-reasoned arguments for the protection of gun rights?

Which of those goals stands the greatest hope of preserving gun rights for another generation?

March 20, 2018, 03:22 PM	#23
TailGator Senior Member Join Date: May 8, 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 3,787	zukiphile, go back to last month's American Rifleman and read LaPierre's column. Dr. Meyer's comments are only slight exaggerations. LaPierre rants about socialism and education, is overtly partisan, and comments on Obamacare and financing university education. (I don't have it hand to give you quotes.) Those are not the issues of the NRA. We should be a single-issue organization. As for partisanship, polls usually show something on the order of 1/3 of registered voters disagreeing with their party's line about gun control. Why would we want to alienate 1/3 of either party who agrees with us? That is something on the order of 50 million people whose support we reject by the rhetoric that is presented. Is the goal firing up the base? Fund raising? Or changing minds by calmly presenting well-reasoned arguments for the protection of gun rights? Which of those goals stands the greatest hope of preserving gun rights for another generation?