Originally Posted by
City Dad
Firstly, I personally, own guns. My entire family are gun collectors - trap-shooters and re-loaders, so, I feel very much in the geographic middle of the debate. In my previous statement, what I was trying to imply was that tact, on the part of gun enthusiasts, would be more productive at this time than the kind of all-out frontal assault "independents - or non NRA gun owners" like me are perceiving. Having a foot in both worlds I recognize the right to self-defense and at the same time can appreciate the revulsion gun-control supporters feel at the strident, macho bluster that is presently being passed off as dialogue by the pro-gun community in general and the NRA specifically.
If I were a dues-paying NRA member, I'd want to kick David Keen in the short-and-curlies for the clumsy, ham-handed and infinitely oblivious publicity stunt he pulled this week. Profoundly counter-productive, confrontational and wrong.
The reality is that fewer and fewer Americans worship at the shrine of John Wayne. Gun-rights advocates would do well to remember this and argue their case more like you, LQ and less like... well, others. ;)