Know your enemy
The Geek found a strategy paper on the tactics of international arms control. The paper is here. Give it a read. The Geek asks:
. . . the pro gun NGOs seem to be MIA, which causes me to wonder what exactly the counter strategy (if any) is.
The NRA certainly likes to ring the alarm bell on UN interference with armed civilians, so it seems to me they either need to get on the ball here, or fill us in on what they’ve got in mind.
Good question. Of course, I’m still wondering why the NRA hasn’t made a peep about the Wrenn case. Anybody know?
November 17th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
‘Cause La Pierre is a rights compromising sissy? Because the NRA is still getting kicked in the teeth about supporting Haney v. United States?
November 17th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
The NRA is loathe to go near anything involving machine guns. You won’t hear an official statement about this case. They’ve drawn their line in the sand and it stops at full auto.
November 17th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
Actually Bob, the line is drawn in front of full-auto.
The full-auto portion of this case rests on a technicality. Technicalities do not play well in the press, so any support given by the NRA in this case gets turned into “The NRA Supports Full-Auto Criminals”.
The gun was not a full-auto and until Wrenn lied to the agent he was not a criminal. But you know and I know and Uncle knows what the press would do to thios case if a national organization started putting their fingers into it.
And now that Wrenn has plead guilty to something, anything, the press can play off “Machine Gunner Pleads Guilty”. It doesn’t matter that it isn’t on a weapons charge, they can bury the actual charges in paragraph 15, they want the words “Machine Gunner’ and ‘Guilty’ in the headline.
Myself, I don’t care if an organization I belong to gets known for connecting themselves to full-auto gunners who are being jerked around the the feds. But I think the other bunch of the NRA; the ‘I only own a gun so I can go hunting a few weekends a year’ types who don’t even have a dedicated home defense firearm, which according the NRA’s own stats are close to 1/3 of the membership, would be very unhappy if they started doing that.