Baba Louie
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Would be a book or two unto itself truth be told. Depending on your slant it could be a good read or a vicious slanted political backstabbing expose... based on your POV. I recall Harlan Carter, Cincinnati and later Neal Knox, Mr Heston and all that fal-der-ral. Was not pretty. But it did set the tone for where we are today. Self preservation and power struggles are nasty things perhaps and Washington DC costs money no matter how you slice the pie.The question of whether NRA best serves the interests of gun owners with its never-ending culture war is well worth discussing. I am not suggesting that everything NRA says is wrong. The organization's focus on criminals, rather than the tools criminals use, deserves respect. Crime is the main problem, not guns. But I am often struck that so many intelligent gun owners fail to ask whether NRA's perpetual state of panic may be more of a cynical fundraising technique than a serious assessment of political and social reality.
(enough on that from moi, back to original thread direction)
Book is queued up but have a few in line ahead of it to read first.