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"Shooting Liberally"
An interesting NYC group. I doubt they're a false flag; they seem more interested in shooting than in politics. My good friend Mark Benenson, a Krag collector who wrote law reviews against gun control many years ago, was former Chairman of Amnesty International's US branch. He remarked that Amnesty's leadership was appalled to find that their US Chairman was a gun collecting NRA lifer.
UPDATE: Mark told me that Amnesty was so concerned that they tried to create a rival US branch, but that didn't work out.
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Did Amnesty do anything about it, or did he serve without harrasment until he felt like stepping down?
Posted by: ben at June 19, 2008 12:16 PM
"... Saul Cornell, a history professor at Ohio State University and an expert on the Second Amendment. ... “The discussion provides a great window into the nuttiness of American culture,” said Cornell. “It’s the only thing you can’t explain to people who are not from this country.”"
Yup. Just like you can't explain freedom of religion or freedom of speech to people from many countries in the middle East.
Posted by: Steve Wright at June 19, 2008 12:34 PM
"Amnesty's leadership was appalled to find that their US Chairman was a gun collecting NRA lifer."
I like that one! It's right up there with the Pro-Life Lesb!ans I know.
Posted by: Jim D. at June 19, 2008 12:43 PM
When the homosexuals figure that we're going to be able to test for and abort queerishness, they might change their minds about abortion. We conceivably could take the number of homos from 2% to near 0% in a generation. Oh the humanity! Genocide! Heh.
Posted by: RKV at June 19, 2008 01:53 PM
That is of course based on the assumption that one's sexual preference is genetic, and not due to some exposure in utero to odd chemicals, perhaps hormones, that might alter brain structure as it is forming.
Posted by: musterion at June 19, 2008 02:16 PM
Mark Benenson wrote an excellent and well researched article about the first.22 Hornet rifles in the Gun Digest several years ago. Anyone interested in early varmint rifles, Springfield 03s or Townsend Whelan will be well rewarded by reading it.
Posted by: Mike Gordon at June 19, 2008 04:33 PM
Someone once said that I was the first liberal redneck they had ever met. Part of that is unfair.
Posted by: Letalis Maximus, Esq. at June 19, 2008 06:03 PM