Correction to NRA Comment for News Media and Americans

By Ammoland

By Alan Korwin

PHOENIX, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- A recent Uninvited Ombudsman report portrayed the National Rifle Association as having “only” 5 million members, contrasting it to the 100 million gun-owning Americans who are the real gun lobbyists in America.

Apparently some readers, including some NRA members, misunderstood this remark.

Contrary to belligerent “news” media reports, the NRA is a moderate civil-rights group, the oldest civil-rights group in America, whose middle-of-the-road positions on firearms do not attract the vast majority of gun owners in America.

This is typically misrepresented in the so-called mainstream media as extreme, yet the NRA’s positions are apparently too modest to appeal to a large swath of American gun owners.

When anti-gun-rights activists like the current president Barack Hussein Obama, whose middle name is not supposed to be used, or Hillary, whose other names are less frequently used (due to disapproval of her husband’s background-check law and other factors, according to critics), stridently recommend “solutions” that repeatedly do not work, of course armed Americans resist and protest their actions.

The NRA’s modest proposals include gun-safety education, marksmanship training, and armed response to the illegal use of force. They are the largest gun-safety training …Read the Rest

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