Tonight (Aug. 18, 2005) Nightline attacks NRA

[garrettwc]

GunGoBoom, I didn't catch the whole thing. Only the last 5 minutes or so. Koppel did acknowledge begrudgingly that the NRA was successful because of its ability to motivate the grass roots movement like no other.

The exchange between Koppel and the anti-gun speaker at the end when they were doing the summation left me with these impressions:

We are a respected(feared) voice in the political arena
We are successful because each and every one of us is willing to do what it takes at the grass roots level
They are back on their heels and worried
They are going to be coming after us with every trick in their playbook. They are looking ahead to the mid-term Congressional elections.

We need to be watchful and ready.

 

[DRZinn]

it sounds like a pretty balanced report. So far they just tell it the way it is.

I watched it and thought it was generally fair and objective.

Really?

Most victims of gun crimes and their families won't be able to seek recourse in court.

Complete BS. They'll be able to seek recourse against the individual who committed the crime, not against a company that made a tool.

 

[R.H. Lee]

The ghost of Tom Daschle is a powerful reminder that one takes
on the NRA at his own peril.

Isn't that deeply disturbing?

There are an estimated 80+million gunowners in this country. The NRA acts in the interests of all of them, even those who are not dues paying members. That's a big cross section of American citizens, a huge constituency.

And supporters of gun control are too outspent and outmaneuvered these days to compete.

The implication being that the righteous cause of gun control is being hamstrung by shenanigans.

 

[Gordon Fink]

They are going to be coming after us with every trick in their playbook. They are looking ahead to the mid-term Congressional elections.

Too bad all those “pro-RKBA” Republicans are busy spending their political capital on things like keeping the brain-dead alive and quashing promising medical research.

~G. Fink

 

[Billll]

I had to snicker at Koppel suggesting that the bill was "sneaked through in the rush to adjournment, thus under the radar of the media" (paraphrasing there). The bill was big news for me. I wrote my Senators and everything. I think the reason the media didn't report it was because passage was a foregone conclusion, and, this being a big defeat for the left, the media wasn't anxious to publicize it.
The other bit that got me was Koppel whining that the antis were underfunded. My God, they've got George Soros and several other fat cats funneling money, time, and people into the effort. They've got grass, they just don't have roots.
For every "I'm the NRA and I Vote" sticker, there's a whole bunch of us who also vote that way, but don't sport the sticker.

 

[Kim]

Mr. Fink----------just a little scientific fact. That person was not clinically brain dead. Severely brain damaged yes but not brain dead. The discussion over using human embroys in medical research is a VERY big ethical question no matter what side you come down on. I would not be so casual about either of those cases and the ethical questions that arise. Just cause something is lawful does not make it ethical or moral.Both can be discussed without interjecting religion. Science is not a moral or ethical thing just like money or firearms. It depends on how it is used. Think of the great Science that supported Eugenics and what unethical things that lead to that were very accetped at the time.(and still are) The end does not always justifly the means. The problem with these topics is the Media is NOT the place to explain the questions. The Media is sensational as we all know.

 

[arcticap]

At one point in the show, the actual membership figures showing the NRA's growth from about 2 to 4 million members filled the TV screen. It's untrue that the show tried to "cover-up" the number of real people behind the NRA'S grass roots movement, and they even correctly attributed the growth to Charlton Heston.