Reply #15: *sigh*

[eqfan592]

My point was that you guys are making fun of an organization who's goal is to protect your 2a rights. You can try and act like that doesn't have anything to say about your stand on the 2a, and you could be right (there are some 2a supporters that go beyond holding the NRA in very low regard for their own reasons) but generally when a progressive on the DU starts cracking jokes about the NRA and how it's trying to arm babies, it's a pretty good indicator on where they stand on the issue.

So I turned the joke around onto an org that most of us support, and I made the same sort of stereotyped (for a conservative anyway) joke. I did this to make a point. When you keep perpetuating stereotypes such as the ones on here, people start to believe them. Hell, a couple of you probably do believe the NRA wouldn't be beyond some of the stuff that was brought up. But the NRA is not entirely the group of wack-jobs some of you like to think it is, and trying to make it out to be so is counter productive.

EDIT: Listen, maybe I'm over-reacting, but seriously, between a couple of other posts in this forum, as well as RL, I'm really tired of some of the ignorant-ass things that are getting spewed around here, and the "jokes" in here were just the straw for me.