The NRA is wasting American capital ... by gimleteye

I'm not opposed to gun ownership but the NRA is a fetish organization. The NRA has imposed its obsession on American politics for as long as I can remember. Its agenda is absolutist like the pro-life movement. The NRA will not be satisfied until every American is welded to its certainty.

Like most obsessions, there is a perversity at the core of the NRA agenda. It insists, gun ownership is about freedom and liberty, but its compulsive orthodoxy is not about freedom, it is about control.

Here is the latest example from the recent session (the worst in modern history) of the Florida legislature and Representative Don Gaetz: an alert from the Florida League of Cities about a new law of state pre-emption of local rules about guns: that "under HB 45, an elected city official passing or a city employee enforcing an ordinance prohibiting guns in parks, discharging guns within city limits, or otherwise restricting guns could be personally liable and the government could also be liable." Yes, you read that right.

If every American owned a gun, and fired their guns at once at will on the street or in parks, the NRA would still find ways to herd American politics along their agenda of control and orthodoxy. A new enemy would be invented, if it didn't already exist. A new threat is always available without illumination how the NRA itself has wrapped up American culture and politics in its perverse form of stagecraft.