tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post1035476702092990991..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: Freedom's Safest PlacePaulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-26819293300227360982015-12-09T18:04:45.988-05:002015-12-09T18:04:45.988-05:00The mighty James Woods agrees.The mighty <a href="http://www.guns.com/2015/12/09/actor-james-woods-i-just-joined-the-nra-i-dont-even-own-a-rifle-but/" rel="nofollow">James Woods </a>agrees.pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-6454457620512242902015-12-04T14:59:21.412-05:002015-12-04T14:59:21.412-05:00...because the NRA is the lone non-ideological civ...<i>...because the NRA is the lone non-ideological civil rights organization of any significance.</i><br /><br />This is a really good point, not made often enough. Many on the left think of the NRA as a gun organization, but it is much more accurately understood as a dedicated 2A organization.<br /><br />If the ACLU were similarly focused on the 1A (and maybe that's the root of their problem, a squishy dissipation into a marsh of dubious new extra-constitutional "rights"), the current crybully scene on campus would look entirely different.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906931065030228473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-84394991840041548522015-12-04T12:24:33.828-05:002015-12-04T12:24:33.828-05:00The statists will always look to apply new laws to...The statists will always look to apply new laws to the law-abiding because that is the easy thing for government to do -- policing the bad guys is hard and dangerous work -- and because it drives the law-abiding populace into the arms of the State. <br /><br />All people of good will, whether gun-owning or not,* should support the NRA, if only because the NRA is the lone non-ideological civil rights organization of any significance.<br /><br />*Disclosure: I was an NRA member long before I owned a firearm.pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.com