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[Liberal Veteran]

134. Let's look at this from another direction.

I am not a fanatic about guns. They are a tool.

That being said, I own one.

I grew up around guns. I worked on extremely large guns in the Navy (the kind nobody could conceal or carry). I carried smaller ones from time to time as part my duties on ship. Truth to tell, I can barely hit the broadside of a barn despite my extensive background with them.

I am no gun grabber.

If you want to know why gun control is a smoking wreck in the USA, the NRA has a good deal to do with that. Every. Single. Time. sensible gun control is suggested, the NRA is at the forefront to water down and block the effort, usually with the refrain that it puts an "undue burden on responsible gun owners/dealers". And god help the politician that finds themselves going up against the NRA (unless they have an extremely liberal district or one highly gerrymandered or both) and wants to get re-elected.

And lets not pretend. If the NRA really supported decent gun control legislation, they have the lobbying power to basically WRITE the supposed gun control laws and to some extent done just that. Don't blame people who want to see decent gun control legislation for the "smoking wreck". Blame the NRA.

When an NRA board member makes the statement that if one of the victims had not voted against concealed carry legislation, someone in the church MIGHT have had a gun and stopped the shooter and expressly singled out a particular victim as being partly at fault, something is wrong with the organization as a whole. Just let that sink in: YOU SHOULD NEED A CONCEALED GUN IN A HOUSE OF WORSHIP TO FEEL SAFE! And that just scratches the surface of the pathology that permeates such an uttered absurdity.

There are not enough "what the fucks?" in that statement to express how utterly baffling it is to not only hear that coming from the top in the organization, but to suggest that people with that kind hard line attitude about guns would offer anything remotely helpful to contribute in the way of sensible gun control legislation is ludicrous.