Interesting

[dreamer_easy]

"But maybe the NRA is a paper tiger. In campaign wars that now cost hundreds of millions, its resources barely constitute petty cash. Obama and Romney can pull more in a single fund-raiser event than the NRA spent in the entire 2010 mid-term campaign - a puny $7.2 million. Obama is living proof of the NRA's toothlessness. In the last presidential poll he won in 11 of the 13 states in which the NRA ran attack ads against him."

- In the US, the gun lobby calls the shots

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I might be misunderstanding how the NRA is these days, but I thought their power lies in the ability to mobilize LOTS of VERY NOISY voters and thus terrify elected officials with the threat of bad PR/the mother of all letter-writing campaigns, rather than clubbing said elected officials with wads of cash.

Maybe they've been eclipsed by the tea partiers...

[viomisehunt.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work that way--I mean the money. It doesn't matter how much money the NRA has or spends. When it comes to the Second Amendment and middle and working class American, anyone criticizing gun control as an attack on our basic rights is preaching to choir.

Did you notice that in his stance the President was quick to assure Americans that he in no way would threatened the Second Amendment.