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« Gun laws to be less restrictive in New South Wales | Main | Modern legal scholarship »

"Shooting Liberally"

Posted by David Hardy · 19 June 2008 11:09 AM

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.

7 Comments | Leave a comment

ben | June 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply

Did Amnesty do anything about it, or did he serve without harrasment until he felt like stepping down?

Steve Wright | June 19, 2008 12:34 PM | Reply

"... 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.

Jim D. | June 19, 2008 12:43 PM | Reply

"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.

RKV | June 19, 2008 1:53 PM | Reply

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.

musterion | June 19, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply

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.

Mike Gordon | June 19, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply

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.

Letalis Maximus, Esq. | June 19, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply

Someone once said that I was the first liberal redneck they had ever met. Part of that is unfair.

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