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The renewal form for my National Rifle Association membership arrived a few days ago and I sent in my $25 in dues right away. Why? Because you really have to pay attention to what the NRA is doing these days. To be blunt, the NRA is kicking everybody else's tail on the issue of expanding and protecting gun rights in America. We're a gun culture. Our politics are shaped by guns. Our communities are shaped by guns. Our lives are touched by guns every day.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, and others have proposed incendiary firearms legislation at what is arguably one of the tensest social moments in the history of America ("Gun owner to Congress: 'I am not your servant,' " Web, Jan. 5). For rural Americans, any restriction beyond current firearms law will require us to choose between an inherent, ingrained right to defend our families and obedience to an expansionist federal mindset. For millions of responsible, voting, productive, taxpaying Americans, that's hardly a difficult choice. To be sure, following a force-feeding of the Affordable Care Act, several hundred invasive executive orders, rogue environmental rules and reams of new federal regulation, America is in absolutely no mood for inside-the-Beltway efforts to furthe...
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To the editor - Re: The Jan. 5 Saturday Soapbox, "Public, not lobbyists, should dictate gun control issues," by Dany Adolf. The National Rifle Association has a membership of about 4 million persons, yet there are many millions more who own firearms and who willingly support the NRA. The organization's sole purpose is to support the national Constitution and to preserve freedoms for each of us.
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When he first campaigned for president in Pennsylvania in 1980, George H.W. Bush ran on the slogan "A President We Won't Have to Train." That was a reflection of his career up to that point: He'd already been a war hero, congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, envoy to China, and director of the CIA. Still to come were the credentials of vice president and commander in chief. History will record him as the man who signed into law the Americans With Disabilities Act, who did raise taxes, who instituted a temporary ban on assault rifles and later renounced his lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association. He presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall, signed START I with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, drove Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, and began the NAFTA negotiations. O...
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Obama and guns Gun owners in Pennsylvania, which has the highest per-capita National Rifle Association membership in the nation, could provide Sen. Barack Obama with a key inroad to rural white voters who have so far backed Sen. Hillary Clinton," Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Whispers column at www.usnews.com, citing gun advocates.
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Gun Owners of America, with its war chest, membership and lobbying strength dwarfed by the National Rifle Association, is emerging as an influential force in the fight against U.S. firearms laws. When word surfaced in February that Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, was plotting with Democrats on a bill to expand background checks for gun buyers, Larry Pratt got really angry. Then Mr. Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, got busy, mounting a lobbying blitz that helps explain why a bipartisan Senate deal on background checks remains elusive.
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I am heartbroken over the Newtown slaughter. I find it hard to fathom the utter horror of that day. We quickly learned who the shooter was, but the question of who was to blame is, unfortunately in my mind, very clear. We, collectively as a society, must share the blame for this senseless and preventable atrocity. For far too long, we have let the misguided beliefs of the National Rifle Association dictate national gun policy. The NRA membership is only 1.4 percent of the population, yet its lobbyists have succeeded in preventing any meaningful regulation of private gun ownership. They have succeeded in this endeavor by embracing what is, in my mind, an erroneous interpretation of the Second Amendment. Spineless politicians from both parties, the Supreme Court, and the full membership o...
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Wildman Ted Nugent has always been a journeyman guitarist and bandleader. A self-professed conservative, helicopter jungle hunter, Mr. Nugent hit the big time with his albums "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Free for All," released after a scintillating performance at the California Jam in front of 200,000 blood thirsty fans back in 1974. Earlier on the Motor City Madman had his first hit single with a raging psychedelic nugget called "Journey to the Center of Your Mind" (1968). From 1968 to 1973, Ted Nugent and other regional favorites, including up-and-comers REO Speedwagon and the Bob Seger System, were the Midwest's hardest working bands in show business. Nowadays, the Nuge's spoils include board membership at the National Rifle Association and his own brand of beef jerky.
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The esquire fits behind Hannibal B. Johnson's name the way a cashmere topcoat fits over your suit: soft, comfortable and elegant, as though it was made to be there from the very beginning. It goes with the tailored suit, manicured nails and a haircut that might have cost as much as the well-polished shoes. And Hannibal B. Johnson didn't come by the esquire at any lowland law school, no sir. That title was bestowed by the regents of Harvard University, the law school of Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. The other three went to Yale.
... are the subjects of ridicule on national television. When state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma... to class, and the rest of us to slip our rifle into a scabbard when we walk down Main Street. It'... a male with a lifetime National Rifle Association membership. As Johnson can explain, Oklahoma showe...
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The top of the ticket isn't the only important choice gun owners face next Tuesday. Many voters will have the opportunity to thwart state-level leftists who have busied themselves battering the right to keep and bear arms. Gun owners will have a chance at the voting booth to defend themselves from the assault. Kentucky, Idaho, Nebraska and Wyoming are asking residents to ratify amendments to their state constitutions to protect hunting rights. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is urging its membership to support pro-gun ballot initiatives. "Millions of Americans hunt. In fact, according to government figures, some 13.7 million Americans took to the field last year," NRA President David A. Keene told The Washington Times in an interview Tuesday. "We work to make sure they have access ...
