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In reply to the discussion: It's very simple: If you want new gun control laws, you need the cooperation of legal gun owners. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)I don't like the NRA, but they have a track record of sizing up their opponents. That group saw the SAME cartoon charcterizations in MSM that have been around for a generation. That group saw the SAME "assault weapons" ban proposal of a generation back dominate the rhetoric. That group saw the SAME culture war crap (only more if it) most of us saw 20 years ago. And the NRA REMINDED politicians of what they can do.
The mean-spiritedness, attacks on DU members, and, frankly, sanctioned over-the-top hate talk here on DU, did not go unnoticed. Respectfully, perhaps you could have done better to reduce the deterioration of DU into an ugly forum of animose. Perhaps you might have looked down the road more constructively and seen the formation of new "gun rights" groups over the last year which could have been approached. But that would have required a serious effort to push for b.g. checks from the beginning. Instead, we got the SAME dated crap. Only more if it.