Sales, Not Sports 0

According to Myron Pitts, results of a recent survey show that NRA members are not nearly so hostile to at least some regulation of gun sales as are the leaders of that lobbying group. A snippet (emphasis added):

Seventy-four percent of NRA members support requiring a background check for anyone who buys a gun (emphasis mine).

Seventy-nine percent support requiring background checks on employees who work for gun retailers.

Seventy-four percent believe gun permits should be granted only to people who have completed gun safety training, and 68 percent believe permits should be denied to people with violent offenses in their past.

You never, ever hear this kind of thoughtful moderation, however, from the leaders who speak for the group’s 4.3 million members.

The survey numbers suggest that the NRA leadership – extremists such as LaPierre – are speaking for and fighting for the gun lobby, not the gun owner. Every solution they are likely to propose to address the issue of mass shootings will always involve adding more guns to the equation, not fewer. That’s because the gun lobby wants one thing: gun sales for its manufacturers.

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