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Originally Posted by roachboy
ace--i don't think there's anything that is not clear in what i posted.
stop with this juvenile "whaddya call what obama's doing" bullshit.
i've had enough of it.
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First, my questions regarding Obama are my questions and I consider them legitimate. I don't care what you like or don't like. My question regarding his inconsitencies goes unanswered will will never be answered until he starts to execute his real agenda.
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all i meant to argue is that the decision on the part of the nra to drift politically to the extreme right has undermined their ability to advocate their positions and not find themselves grouped with the far right of the republican party. if they really want to defend gun ownership in its absolutist form (all control=evil) then they made a mistake.
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I don't agree with your premise. I don't think the NRA has "drifted". I think they have been consistent in their views and actions. You provide no support for your premise.
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the reason i noted this self-evident fact (if you pay attention to such things in the empirical world) is that it hardly matters what the nra says about obama at this point because of the gamble they have made over the past years to alilgn with the far right.
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The NRA has a singular focus. The organization does not champion "right wing" issues, the champion gun rights issues. What is "self-evident" to you is not to me.
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so they're talking to a subset of the population that they hope to reach, and appeal mostly to folk like you, who need no convincing about this as gun control is one of the legion of republican-fabricated "wedge issues"...
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The NRA is a politically active group because they believe there is a need for them to be politically active, their political activity has increased because the threat to gun ownership has increased. The only thing we can honestly assume NRA members have in common, is the interest in guns. That is the subset. The issue is real, not fabricated. If those wanting to end the "wedge" on this stop trying to infringe on my rights the issue will stop being a "wedge issue".