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Contrary to the common caricature, not all NRA members are crazed, government-hating militia members. Many members are simply law-abiding citizens, some not even gun owners, who seek to protect a constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms...
...staff notes that NRA members "compose little over one percent of the population yet five percent of regular voters." If NRA members exercise their right to vote (how dare they!) and donate to a group that makes their voices heard, then more power to them...
...oppose the NRA's goals and support Bush's resignation from the organization, but I hope they continue to give a voice to those who disagree with me, including the white supremacist separatists. The grass-roots organization the staff disparages is a superb channel for their frustrations. In providing that channel, the NRA serves a very useful purpose. It is ridiculous to condemn the NRA for being successful representatives of its constituency...
Flanked by top police officials, President Clinton publicly dared the National Rifle Association to give up more than $1 million it may have gained from a fundraising letter calling law enforcement officers "jack-booted government thugs." The NRA had apologized for the letter this week, but Clinton issued today's broadside after a top NRA official boasted of the letter's impact on contributions. "If the NRA's apology is sincere," Clinton said, "what they ought to do is put their money where their mouth is. They ought to give up the ill-gotten gains from the bogus fund-raising...
...week afterPresident George Bush's highly public resignation from the National Rifle Association, the NRA is sheepishly backing away from the fundraising letter that outraged Bush,describing federal agents as "jack-booted thugs."Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has apologized for the letter, saying that his harsh words were misunderstood and were not intended to apply to all federal law enforcement officials. "That letter was intended to apply to a number of specific cases where we thought the government's conduct was improper," LaPierre said. "We're very pro-law enforcement."TIME senior Washington correspondent Jeff Birnbaumsays LaPierre...