I always thought a combination of the ACLU & NRA would make the perfrect civil rights organization.

NedoftheHill 47537 posts Joined: Jun 29, 2011

Posted 3:19 pm on Aug 11, 2019

At least the NRA is staying true to the rights it was formed to protect. Various ACLU chapters are starting to abandon free speech rights and freedom of religion rights, among others. They've lost their appetite for defending many "unsavory" (in their opinion) defendants, which is sad.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

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I always thought a combination of the ACLU & NRA would make the perfrect civil rights organization. NedoftheHill 3:19pm · 8/11/19
- Dont worry ACLU absolutism is also alive and well. Take Charlottesville. Frank L 9:58pm · 8/11/19
- The NRA was not established to protect rights, Ned. Chris94 3:40pm · 8/11/19
  - I don't want to embarrass you, Chris, but you are outside your area of expertise on this. NedoftheHill 4:10pm · 8/11/19
    - You’re simply wrong Chris94 6:02pm · 8/11/19
      - I respect that you recognize your earlier post is wrong, so you changed. But, you're still wrong. NedoftheHill 8:16pm · 8/11/19
        
        Membership is irrelevant. It is a lobbying org for gun manufacturers.NT Chris94 8:34am · 8/12/19
        
        Membership, especially of that magnitude, makes all the difference. You are wrong, Chris.NT NedoftheHill 11:38am · 8/12/19
    - It was initially a sportsman’s group. No lobbying and they didn’t give two shits about handguns. Frank L 5:47pm · 8/11/19
      - And supported several kinds of gun control they oppose today.NT MAS 7:16pm · 8/11/19
        
        Yep. Now it’s essentially a group run by lawyers and lobbyists who take the most extreme positions. Frank L 7:27pm · 8/11/19
        
        Call it what you will. They do necessary work that many people don't appreciate. Like ACLU of old. NedoftheHill 8:19pm · 8/11/19
        
        And like the ACLU of old they often take extreme positions. The ACLU constantly fought even Frank L 9:11pm · 8/11/19
        
        The NRA has accepted and supported many reasonable limits. For example, the ban on automatic weaponsNT NedoftheHill 9:19pm · 8/11/19
        
        Back then they were a sportsman’s group. Of course they weren’t in favor of full military weapons. Frank L 9:26pm · 8/11/19
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      - Yep, my father had been a member since his childhood. iairishcheeks 6:14pm · 8/11/19
        
        AR's are the types of guns most protected by the 2nd Amendment. Others are secondary.NT NedoftheHill 8:25pm · 8/11/19
        
        So, he became a communist gun-grabber?NT MAS 7:17pm · 8/11/19
        
        Still have my grand dad’s card from the late 30’s.NT Frank L 6:53pm · 8/11/19

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