Jewish Writer Joins the NRA Because Of The New York Times and AG Loretta Lynch

[Red Wind]

He had handled guns before and had even interviewed Wayne LaPierre. But the lad whose mom had cringed at the thought of him getting a cap pistol had always thought of joining the NRA as a bridge too far.

The NYT and Loretta changed all that in a heartbeat as we see here.

I am not a complete stranger to guns. I got my merit badge in riflery when I was a kid and have dropped in on a firing range now and again, learning the basics on Glocks and Berettas. I even went shooting with former Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

But the NRA was always a bridge too far. I interviewed Wayne LaPierre, its CEO, once for PJTV, but I never joined. I'm still a Jewish boy from New York whose mother cringed at buying him a cap gun. It's not in my DNA.

 

[General Geoff]

Articles like this really need to be spread far & wide.

Now that the antis are going for broke, calling for total confiscation, they're losing a LOT of support from would-be moderates.

 

[old lady new shooter]

Articles like this really need to be spread far & wide.

Now that the antis are going for broke, calling for total confiscation, they're losing a LOT of support from would-be moderates.

It's not the confiscation, it's the fact that our government is not only not protecting us against the terrorists, they seem to be bending over backwards to not protect us.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I read his article and I welcome him into the fold...

 

[yugorpk]

Good for him, good for us.

As a scout leader I do have to add its the "rifle shooting" merit badge not "riflelry".

 

[rcmodel]

This is worth watching.

I don't care who ya are.

http://jpfo.org/media-vid/ngn.mp4

rc

 

[old lady new shooter]

This is worth watching.

I don't care who ya are.

http://jpfo.org/media-vid/ngn.mp4

rc

Wants to download something which then doesn't open. Can you please post which video on the jpfo site it is?

 

[rcmodel]

I don't know??

It took a little bit to down load the first time I opened it.

But the link still works for me.

http://jpfo.org/media-vid/ngn.mp4

rc

 

[old lady new shooter]

I don't know??

It took a little bit to down load the first time I opened it.

But the link still works for me.

http://jpfo.org/media-vid/ngn.mp4

rc

Tried again, it took forever to download but is very much worth watching, so I'll add my recommendation to yours.

Thanks.

 

[vito]

Maybe the writer's exposure to the NRA and the wider world allowed him to see the harm and irrationality in what the NYT is promoting, but I think that there are likely many readers of the Times in the big cities of the East and West coast that thought the confiscation argument was totally fair and realistic. When you live in the fantasy world of liberalism, as many do in the cities that have been totally subject to one party (Democrat) rule for generations, being anti-gun is as natural as breathing. They are so used to the concept that the government will take care of them, despite never endings failures to do so, that even thinking about accepting resposibility for their own physical safety is incomprehensible. I grew up in that environment, but was fortunate to have a father who had grown up in rural Minnesotta and understood the value of the 2nd Amendment and firearms. My access to guns as a child was limited to a single 22LR round at a time for my brother's bolt action rifle when we were visiting family friends who owned enough acreage for some target shooting. I was also lucky to have left New York City at age 22 for my ROTC military obligation, and never returned there to live.

So I have become the "crazy uncle" (as I am sure the writer of the column has become) to family and old friends who still live in the liberal enclaves in NY, NY, MA, MD, and LA because I own guns, carry daily, and worst of all, am a Life member of the NRA. I don't even try to convince these relatives (including a few who have served in the military but then returned to NY and have retained the essential anti-gun bias of New Yorkers) of the folly of their ways.