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SEATTLE: After his landslide election to the National Rifle Association board, Charlton Heston is launching a crusade to unseat Neal Knox, the NRA's controversial first vice president, in elections Tuesday. Heston hopes to counter Knox, a longtime NRA member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre...
...keynote address, Frank discussed political strategies, citing the National Rifle Association (NRA) as an organization whose tactics could be copied by the gay rights movement...
Your enemies are as important as your friends. Clinton's enemies: Joe Camel, the NRA, despoilers of the Grand Canyon. Dole's enemies: teachers, the N.A.A.C.P., Katie Couric, minimum-wage workers. And with friends like Newt, Dole couldn't really afford enemies. All those double-date press conferences during the budget negotiations looked like a buddy movie with Newt the star and Dole the sidekick. If Newt were really Dole's friend, he wouldn't be running around the country swinging a plastic bucket to symbolize all the money the revolution saved on congressional ice deliveries while his standard-bearer...
...read through the various topics, it becomes clear that the NRA is stressing two main themes; good citizenship and the importance of our second-amendment rights. On the surface, this is hardly a disturbing agenda. But when one asks oneself why these people are so single-mindedly dedicated to the right to bear arms that they'll select their representatives based solely on their stance on this issue, something slightly darker emerges...
Perhaps the Web is not a better teacher than experience; after skimming the NRA's web site I know more about the organization, but ironically I understand less. This is the way of the world, I guess. There are some things we can never comprehend, no matter how hard we try. I wonder if the Michigan Militia has a home page...