The AARP and the NRA can both, when they need to, mobilize, or threaten to mobilize, MILLIONS of votes. The AARP can just do millions more than the NRA. Thats why they’re so powerful nobody messes with them.

Every argument on the part of the gun control crowd seems to quickly devolve into a “OK corral” “blood in the streets” affair.

The fact that CCW legislation has not yet seen the “Old West effect” does nothing to check their fear.
Hoplophobes are by definition driven by fear….

Nobody would ever call it that, firstly because we don’t include suicide in the “violence” category. Secondly, people who commit suicide are not “victims”—suicide isn’t something that happens to people, it’s something that people do to themselves.

Whatever. I’m so tired of these freaks who can’t do basic research.

If that’s true, then the editors at Fortune are bunch of bloomin’ idiots. The AARP is the 800lb gorilla of the lobbyists… and the car mfg’s, and big oil, and farmers, and big medicine, and dozens of other industries spend more.

Newsflash: The money tossed around by the NRA gets lost in the noise in DC! The NRA doesn’r succeed because they’re ‘powerful’, the NRA succeeds because they have the Constitution on their side, and the rights of ALL citizens at the heart of what they do. Not too many advocacy groups can claim either, let alone both.

It’s as if he thinks gun-owners are idiot rednecks told what to think by the “evil gun lobby.” Could it be that he stereotypes us and thinks he’s morally superior?…… Rhetorical queston of course.