It is time to put the NRA beyond the pale.

[Cerridwen]

37. The tobacco lobby.

It's nice to read your posts, Plaid Adder.

As I was reading I was reminded of the tobacco lobby that used to have a strangle-hold on our politics. Never mind the health costs, never mind the deaths caused and the millions whose health was ruined, it was "just business" and a product for profit.

If in fact violent crime rates are dropping in the US and as Pew research showed, the majority of Americans were "gun control" over "right to own"**, perhaps the "guns are just another product for profit" groups need a violent tragedy such as Newtown to shore up their market share.

**An article from Pew Research that shows Americans who favored "gun control" held a larger majority over "right to own" until 2008; remember the tea baggers and their appearance on the national stage and "their" messages about guns and "socialism"; and what appears to be a return to pre-tea-time attitudes about control versus ownership. No wonder la pierre said that if Barack Obama was re-elected he would "lose more on the election battlefield than our nation has lost in any battle, any time, anywhere in the history of our nation." quoted by Lawrence O'Donnell on The Last Word (see video below).

With the tea baggers losing their audience, the nra needs another vehicle to catapult the fear for profit.