Okay-
Let's work this one-
"If the NRA were even half as nutty as PeTA, do you have any idea how many dead people there would be?"
SUre there are some loons in PETA, but I prefer to rephrase as-
If the gun owners in America as a whole were as active/involved as the animal welfare crowd how many fewer gun laws would there be?
"Last time I checked, the NRA doesn't tacitly endorse those who conduct acts of domestic terrorism, nor funnel funding to people known to toss bombs and burn down buildings."
Not according to Democratic Underground!
I would hope if the gov't ever strips our 2A right they would though...
"I have never once seen the NRA call for the restrictions on the civil rights of other human beings, which is far more than can be said of PeTA."
What Civil Right does PETA have a problem with?
Here are a few quotes from the NRA infringing my 2A rights-
"We believe that the machine gun, submachine gun,
sawed off shotgun and dangerous and deadly weapons
could all be included in any kind of a bill.
And no matter how drastic, we will support it."
--NRA Executive Vice President Milton Reckord;
House Hearings on National Firearms Act, April/May 1934, at 81.
"The National Rifle Association has been in support of
workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its
very inception in 1871."
-— NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth
NRA's American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968, P. 22
"The NRA supported The National Firearms Act of 1934 which
taxes and requires registration of such firearms as machine
guns, sawed-off rifles and sawed-off shotguns. ... NRA support
of Federal gun legislation did not stop with the earlier Dodd
bills. It currently backs several Senate and House bills which,
through amendment, would put new teeth into the National and
Federal Firearms Acts."
-—American Rifleman, March 1968, P. 22
"We think it's reasonable to support the federal Gun-Free School
Zones Act. ... We think it's reasonable to expect full enforcement
of federal firearms laws by the federal government. ... That's why
we support Project Exile -- the fierce prosecution of federal gun
laws...we think it's reasonable because it works. ... We only support
what works and our list is proud."
-—NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre
Congressional Testimony, May 27, 1999
Hearing Before 106th Congress
House of Representatives
Committee On The Judiciary
Subcommittee On Crime
First Session
"Nor, as far as I know, do they advocate "total animal liberation" and then turn around and surreptitiously kill scores of animals using methods not approved by any governing body."
I still have seen no credible evidence PETA kills animals in their shelters using non approved euthenasia methods.
CT