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Originally Posted by uniquemkt
There's always someone trying to correlate the NRA with gun violence, even though the statistics never support that correlation. People who learn gun safety, including handling, use, storage, are not the people using guns to commit crimes.
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Clearly you don't know jack shit about the NRA.
The NRA used to be all about gun safety. In fact, it was less about "gun safety" and more about "rifle safety" being as back then members of the NRA was a lot less concerned about handguns (no less assault rifles). They used to hold classes on safety, and sell us yellow tinted shooting glasses, gloves, and ear plugs. I remember taking classes on how to pack your own shotgun shells. No one cared about our 2nd amendment rights because our 2nd amendment was never threatened; We hunted during hunting season, practiced at a range and attended safety classes off season - and maybe built deer stands. We also shot pheasant and duck, and skeet shooting too. Gun owners were hunters then.
Somewhere along the line - during the 1980s - the NRA changed and became more radicalized. Keep in mind that the NRA is in fact a business, and the more firearm owners they have the more business they have and the more money they take in. They stared to promote handguns for "personal safety". The NRA might have even had a point because in the 1970s response time for police officers were horrible, and you couldn't really trust them if they did in fact show up. The only people who had assault rifles were the nut jobs who lived out in the country and were afraid their government was out to get them.
Then they turned to assault rifles. More firearms, more money for the NRA.
Firearms used to be rifles and maybe even shotguns for hunters, and perhaps handguns for a few people who lived in areas where police response time was measured in hours not minutes. Now we have unstable eighteen year old kids with assault rifles killing people a dozen at a time in shopping malls, movies, and schools.
Now instead of taking our rifles to the range to make sure we can shoot straight during hunting season, we have twenty year olds who have never hunted a day in their life taking their assault rifles to the range because they need them for "protection". I have a friend of mine who is just like this; He seems to think his 90 lbs wife will be able to pull out his M4 and shoot someone dead with killing herself or their two children and it's fucking comical.