My hot take is that we spend way too much time thinking about the NRA — a corrupt, diminished organization — and not enough time thinking about the hardcore grassroots #2A crowd who don’t take their marching orders from the NRA anyway.
The progressive focus on the NRA as its gun policy bogeyman echoes the way progressives focus on AIPAC in Middle East policy. In both cases folks miss what’s actually going on, which is millions of voters, organized at the grassroots, caring deeply about one and only one issue.
.@StephenGutowski does an admirable job trying to explain what’s actually going on in the gun rights movement here and on his subscription service @TheReloadSite. Worth progressives studying. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Anecdotally, I’ll just say that I always find it interesting to talk to a gunsmith or the guy at the counter of a gun store for 20 minutes about gun control. The level of paranoia I have heard about the government, and Democrats, and even the military, is really something.
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