Inside the NRA

The NRA comes under fire (no pun intended) from the Gun Control Group. They say that only the States should have the "right to secure themselves with a well regulated militia" and individuals do not have that right.

They criticize the NRA for truncating the Second Amendment to be more "user friendly". Charlton Heston, President on the NRA says that the 2nd Amendment is "first among equals". Without the 2nd then there will be no real way to protect the other nine. As one in eighty Americans belong to the NRA Heston says that they are in fact representing the views of those members. Gun Control Group says they do not.

The NRA also come under fire for strong-arming Congressmen to vote against new Gun Control laws, and for working to oust those who will not show a solid support for the NRA.

JFK was a member of the NRA, assasinated by Lee Harvry Oswald. Martin Luther King, assassinated by James Earl Ray. Robert Kennedy, assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan. John Lennon assassinated by Mark David Chapman in New York, 1980. Have four assassins killed civil liberties?

Has anyone been watching the series? Any comments or thoughts?

-- (AtlantaAS@aol.com), June 29, 1999

Answers

Part Three airs tomorrow June 30, 9pm EST on A&E. "The Gun Effects" looks at life with guns inside the trauma room.

-- (AtlantaAS@aol.com), June 29, 1999.

I didn't know A&E was pinko, wacko far left extremist, commie-socialists. Almost forgot Nazi.

-- KoFE (your@town.USA), June 29, 1999.

Hmmmm.... it's not on her yet (PT) but I was favorably impressed with last night's first installment. Will have to watch tonight.

-- Kristi (securx@succeed.net), June 30, 1999.

I'll try to catch it here...if the time is right.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 30, 1999.

I watched part one, and was amazed at the fact that it didn't paint gun owners as whackos. Could the media actually put out a balanced, or even....*gasp*.. a pro-gun show? Nah, I doubt it. Didn't see last nights installment, but I did tape it and will watch it today. One thing to note. Each nights show was done by a different production company, so my guess is that the bias could swing wildly from segment to segment.

-- Bob (bob@bob.bob), June 30, 1999.

KoFe: A&E is (part) owned by DISNEY. Is it any wonder that they would trash Patriots, or decent-living folks? Not to me.

I'm celebrating 4 years of our family's boycott of them...

-- Buffalo Bob (buff@hal.com), June 30, 1999.

Buffalo,

but , but , but

(E.G. Robinson voice;)

"where is your Moses now????"

-- (yondah@lies the tent. of my faddah), June 30, 1999.

Kofe said:

"Is it any wonder that they would trash Patriots, or decent-living folks? Not to me."

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Of course it's no wonder to you, obviously you're not watching the series, you've made up your mind. All the media is left-wing antigun propaganda, right?

This is similar to what Chuck Heston himself did recently when he was interviewed by 60 Minutes.

Before SEEING the show, he released a statement that lashed out at 60 Minutes for the treatment he "expected" to get.

instead, he got a pretty good portrait, fair and balanced, that helped me understand his position.

Of course, he apologized to 60 Minutes. and this info opened and closed the segment!

Maybe you should watch the show before shooting off your mouth.

The one thing that does bug me about Mr. Heston and his continuous fight for the out of context version of the 2nd amendment (which I don't really have a problem with), is his misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment.

At one point during a speech he mentions that the NRA has trouble buying airtime on broadcast TV stations.

"What has happened to OUR First Amendment rights?" He asks the crowd.

Unfortunately someone should tell him that the Right to Free Speech is intended only to prohibit the GOVERNMENT from denying that right.

Chuck seems to think that a Business has to let anyone say anything they want or run any ad they want. Wrong...

Maybe the NRA should buy NBC or CBS or ABC or FOX... or A&E..then they could run whatever they wanted.

Imagine for a moment if the NRA owned NBC.

and HandGun Control Inc wanted to buy an ad during primetime.

Do you think the NRA would let them?

-- Plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), June 30, 1999.

You are right Plonk. I jumped to a conclusion, however I didn't know that A&E was owned by Disney; and now it's even more apparent that I made the correct assumption. We (that is, the nation, probably not Eisner,) are being treated to another leftist test, to see how much resistance to gun grabbing is held by the public. My original point being that we shouldn't even be having a dialogue about gun grabbing, but there it is. If you want to try to look at the bigger picture, investigate to find out who owns the media (whether newspaper, radio, tv,etc.) and try to find out which organisations they belong to,ie, Bilderbugers, Trilateral Comm., Council of Foreign Relations, and then listen to what is being said by these individuals, especailly in reference to , and in adherence to our constitution. There are several sources that i consider much more credible than A&E that are investigating the seemingly random massacres that have occured recently and suspect that they are not random at all, if you get my drift. Do I believe it? I'm open to the truth.

-- KoFE (Your@town.USA), June 30, 1999.

KoFE said: "...I'm open to the truth. "

good, so am I and the only thing I know for sure is true at the moment, is that I attributed something above that "Buffalo Bob" said to you.

oops sorry.

although your statement about the wacky pinkos..nazis probably caused my tired brain to confuse the 2 of you ;->

(unless they are both your sock puppets)

oh, the third installment is on in a few minutes!

I'll have to watch, some of it was shot...errr filmed at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where a friend of mine is a neurosurgeon.

Pretty much all she does there is take bullets out of brains. mmmmmmm

hey, lots of people die in bathtub mishaps too...noone's trying to outlaw or regulate bathtubs...yet.

-- Plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), June 30, 1999.