From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Subject: Re: The NRA will always be right wing.
Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:08:24 GMT

In article <1ikgh3INNp26@flash.pax.tpa.com.au>, anon.526@pax.tpa.com.au writes:

Looks like the aussie anti-gun fanatics are at it again.  Is that you, Susan?

I encourage everyone to ignore this thread, as, first, the NRA encompasses 
persons of every economic, political, sexual, and religious background, and
second, I seriously doubt any Australian, particularly an anonymous one, has
any particular knowledge of either American politics, or NRA internals.

|> Don Baldwin laments that the gun lobby is weighed down with the label
|> of hard-core conservative.

We get all kinds of labels, just like any group being propagandized against - the
only problem occurs if we start believing the labels ourselves.

|> Here is some advice:  Give up.  The NRA will always be right wing.

That's helpful.

Any time your enemies tell you to give up, it means it's time to redouble your
efforts.

I've signed up over 90 new members, 60 of them sponsored, since last June, with
help.  I want do another 120 this year.

|> I doubt that any NRA directors are losing any sleep over Colorado
|> Amendment 2.  Maybe one or two of them have some closeted qualms.
|> The other 90 or so (or however many there are) think that fags
|> deserve no sympathy.  If you don't believe it, ask Wayne LaPierre
|> how many homosexuals there are in the NRA.

Well, I personally have signed up a goodly portion of a San Francisco
anti-hate-crime neighborhood patrol from a part of the city with a notable gay
presence, so I'd guess more than a few.

Oddly enough, I signed up my dental hygienist this morning for an NRA five year
membership, and she is an out-of-the-closet lesbian.  Her partner is also
interested.  Since we have a lot of hate crimes against gays in this area, more
and more of them are recognizing the police can't/won't help them, and are
preparing to defend themselves.

Incidently, since the NRA doesn't ask about sexual orientation, nor make it a
membership qualification, Wayne couldn't possibly answer your sleazy, asinine
smear question.

|> In case you missed it, the NRA attacked one of its enemies in Colorado
|> last year by raising the issue of flag burning.  Guess which side it
|> was on.

Citations, please.  You can claim anything you want - give us some verifiable
proof, not propaganda you made up on the fly.

|> It is true that the GOP has been seriously damaged by its reactionary
|> posterior.  

Both major US parties are in trouble - if Clinton hadn't won this last
Presidential election, the Democratic party would have probably splintered.

|>The NRA is a big part of its problem.  The GOP is either going
|> to go down the toilet, or ax the NRA and other fanatics in the party,
|> or both.

Snicker.  Man, are you obvious.

|> Brought to you by the Society for Preservation of Human Life.

Judging from your post, this "Society" has a vested interest in human stupidity,
as well.

And doing a damn fine job of preserving that stupidity, as well as displaying it,
I might add.

Congratulations.

-- 
Kirk Hays - NRA Life.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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