To the 2nd amendment extremists - you have the blood of children on your hands

[paleotn]

90. If said law-abiding gun owners....

....contribute their hard earned money to an organization who's chief goal is to increase gun manufacturer revenues, consequences be damned, then yes, they do bear personal responsibility. Extremists are the ones who use ridiculous fallacies such as the tired, old "edged weapons" analogy. A knife can be used as a tool, never meant for defense or offense. Last I checked, it was tough to cut materials efficiently with a Glock 9mm.

As for the organized, gun extremists, back in my old home state of TN, recently the NRA strongly backed the following legislation...

Guns in bars....even against a proprietors wishes.

"Guns in the trunk"....That's right, employees can now take their guns to work with them, as long as said weapons are left in the car. How could that ever go wrong?

...but it gets worse. Guns in other formerly "gun free" zones such state and local schools and parks. Which makes even less sense, given current events.

In the recent election, the NRA helped "primary" Republican TN legislators who didn't go along in lock step with these absolutely nutty ideas.

As a responsible gun owner, I don't need a 20 round clip. If you think you do, you probably need to work on your accuracy instead. I don't need 1,000 rounds of ammo at any one time. I don't "carry and conceal" because one Saturday of training and a permit from the local Sheriff's dept. DOES NOT qualify me to make split second, life or death decisions. That takes months and years of training and retraining for law enforcement and military personnel. I don't need to buy 5 or 6 handguns at one time. All of those things and more are blasphemous to NRA zealots and as I've said before, I'm sick and damn tired of them given people like myself a bad name. Hopefully the time has come to gut that despicable organization once and for all!