"Has it occurred to you that the gun lobby might actually be what it appears to be, i.e. a single-issue constituency, rather than part of the VRWC?"
Who the hell are you trying to kid? Remember we're talking about the Tim McVeigh/Ted Nugent crowd.
ARE you seriously trying to tell us that crap like this is NOT just the same dreary puddle of right wing pus:
"Senators Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton and Diane Finestein are among the most eager to ban guns, and they are among the most socialist of our national politicians.
In the House, a dedicated opponent of firearms ownership and self-defense is Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, an avowed socialist. This can be said because she is a member of the House Progressive Caucus, which is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, which is affiliated with Socialist International.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry1.htm""People can't expect President Clinton to sit there in front of a camera and say, 'Tonight I have declared martial law,'" Pratt said. "You'll just find out about it when you try and get on the main highway and there's a humvee with a soldier who says, 'Turn back.' And when you ask why, he puts his gun into ready position and says, 'I'm only following orders. Please turn back.' "
http://www.newdaynews.com/thenews/index.cgi/noframes/read/309http://www.gunowners.org/news/nws0109.htm"Speaking to an NRA "Get Out the Vote for Bush Rally" in Grand Rapids Michigan, Heston, in October of 2000, said something that should have resulted in a visit from the Secret Service: "Now,
saying 'I'm with you guys on guns.' In any other time or place you'd be looking for a lynching mob." The crowd responded with "let's do it" and "I've got a rope," according to a Grand Rapids newspaper."
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/04/11.html
"I say, if anyone’s going to lose freedoms, make it the illegal aliens. "
http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/cpac0202.asp
Charlton Heston: "Heaven help the God-fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle class, Protestant, or—even worse—Evangelical Christian, Midwest, or Southern, or—even worse—rural, apparently straight, or—even worse—admittedly heterosexual, gun-owning or—even worse—NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff, or—even worse—male working stiff, because not only don't you count, you're a downright obstacle to social progress. ...I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton's cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund-raisers but boycott gun-rights fund-raisers... and then claim it's time to place homosexual men in tents with Boy Scouts, and suggest that sperm donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served and more loved."
http://www.vpc.org/nrainfo/speech.html