Reply #118: Hard to get much more out of touch with reality than your post...

[MrBenchley]

"how counter-intuitive it is for a party that wants to ensure civil rights and cultural continuity for women, minorities, workers, homosexuals, the poor, the disabled, those of different religious backgrounds, etc. to be hell-bent on curtailing the rights of those who own firearms"
Be sure and show us anybody anywhere in the RKBA world even mildly supporting "civil rights and cultural continuity for women, minorities, workers, homosexuals, the poor, the disabled, those of different religious backgrounds, etc." In fact, bigotry is rife among the gun loopy....just look at the bigoted specimens who make up the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus (Marilyn Musgrave, Tom Tancredo).

The NRA board of directors includes Grover Norquist, Ted Nugent, the nutcase who publishes "Soldier of Fortune" magazine and a handful of loonies with ties to white supremacist groups. The Gun Owners of America, the second largest group of gun nuts, is headed by a guy who held kaffeeklatches with the Aryan Nation and other neoNazis.

The chinless fuckwits of the KKK are even willing to forego their kneejerk racism when they peddle this RKBA bilge.

And a glance at any on-line gun nut forum will find hate, stupidity and intolerance blossoming with nary a word of opposition or rebuke.

Far as I can see, any disdain the trigger-happy here feel is well earned.