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Once upon a time, the National Rifle Association (NRA) was simply a club for target-shooters and hunters. That time has passed. The NRA has degenerated into a group obsessed with weapons and has a fringe population of semi-revolutionary zealots...
That group has become one of the most powerful lobbies at the Capitol, if only to oppose every form of gun control that the Congress enacts. Far from an association of rifle-owners, the NRA has become the National Handgun, Assault Weapon and Federal Lobbyist Association...
...NRA has systematically propounded an attitude of alienation...
...thousands of NRA members who have joined paramilitary organizations, all with a deep-seated fear of the federal government, demonstrate a rejection of and withdrawal from society. A fundraising letter from a top NRA lobbyist calling federal law enforcers "jack-booted government thugs [wearing] Nazi bucket helmets and black storm-trooper uniforms" attests further to this alienation...
...with us, you're against us" attitude has its strongest repercussions in Washington. Local NRA members, the grass-roots companions of the federal lobbyists, lead extensive campaigns against candidates for national office who support gun control. They succeed because they have the money. The NRA contributed to the campaigns of 22 of the 35 winners in last November's elections for U.S. Senate. Of the 87 new House members, 60 received NRA funds...