Wait a gosh darned minute mr hairless!!!
I NEVER said there's no difference between the NRA and the Brady campaign and, quite frankly, I'm insulted.
What I noted was that their tactics are amazingly similar - even down to sentence and paragraph structure in their mailings.
You're insulted? Well I'm much more insulted by your comment that you're insulted. And my feelings are hurt too. Really, really hurt. It's bad hurt. You can't know my pain. But I'll forgive you if you forgive me. And I'll share my candy with you if you'll be my friend. Let's meet in the schoolyard during recess and we'll shake hands. 'Kay?
I read that detailed analysis you wrote comparing the words quoted from the newsletter by The Brady Campaign with that "similar letter" you say you got from the NRA. Here's your analysis, complete in every way:
In all fairness it looks a lot like a similar letter I got from the NRA...
just a flip side of the coin. other than that the wording is remarkably similar.
Middle school kids know, or ought to know, that fundraising campaigns are
similar: they identify a problem, assert that they will try to solve it, and explain that they need money in order to do so.
So like when the American Cancer Society asks for donations it's going to say that cancer is like
bad and it wants some of your money to fight cancer instead of like helping to spread cancer? And that's your point? Hotcha. See, that's why so many of us come to the Internet: to learn what most middle school kids know.
But from your clarification in rebuttal to my response, there's no doubt that I understood
the point of what you said: "their tactics are amazingly similar." But unless you're talking on a middle school level to the other kids in the schoolyard, the tactics of the NRA and The Brady Campaign are not "amazingly similar" or even "similar"--except, possibly, that both organizations use words to communicate and to solicit support. Your tactics are similar in those respects too. So are the tactics of everyone else in the forum, on the Internet, in politics, and just about everywhere else. If you mean something else, it's not my fault that you're unclear.
If you think I misunderstood what you meant, you could have clarified what you meant instead of getting on your high horse and continuing to mumble about
amazingly similar tactics. Frankly, I'm insulted all over again that you think it's okay to trivialize the organization that stands between me and The Brady Campaign by saying that their tactics are similar.
Get out of the schoolyard and you might see that their tactics differ on levels above the one you see. I've seen Brady Campaign billboards warning Florida tourists that citizens are armed, but I haven't seen any NRA billboards warning tourists in other places that citizens are unarmed.
On the other hand I'm aware that the NRA auctions firearms and other gun related materials at its annual convention, but I've never seen The Brady Campaign auction do that. From my perspective the two organizations
don't have similar tactics except at the middle school level.
Siglite, control your aggressive behavior. You look foolish jumping into threads for the sole purpose of attacking me.