...it just plain pissed me off to read (again) how NRA has continually defended Gun Owners' Rights in New Orleans (and by extension everywhere else) in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina and fought the illegal and unconstitutional firearms seizures without a solitary mention of the Second Amendment Foundation's lead role in the (continuing) action.Great post sir.
At the same time, NRA has now jumped aboard the Parker v. D.C./D.C. v. Heller bandwagon3 after pulling out all the stops to first co-opt (and therefore control) the litigation, and then to totally derail the Levy-Gura action by having a bill, S.1414 - District of Columbia Personal Protection Act, introduced on the Hill (by an otherwise respected pro-gun Senator, Orin Hatch, shamefully acting as an NRA stooge!) that would have rendered; Parker…, and all the time and effort which went into prosecuting it, a nullity!
The "institutional ego" of the National Rifle Association is likely as big a threat to establishing the Second Amendment as an individual right as are the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center or those gun-ban advocate billionaires, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. Why else would NRA initiate "a copycat lawsuit" against the District of Columbia, and muddy the waters of the Potomac by naming then Attorney General John Ashcroft, the best friend gun-owners ever had in that office5, as a defendant?!? NRA then arrogantly but (whew!) unsuccessfully attempted to consolidate their action with Parker..., "a clean Second Amendment case."
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PS - I paid full price for mine too.
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