If that's the case (and we all know it is), then why shouldn't we also be having a discussion about trained adults legally carrying concealed firearms for their own protection and the protection of others? Texas Governor Rick Perry's willing to have that discussion. Why isn't the nation's attorney general?
The same question might be asked of you, Mr. LaPierre--why has NRA avoided DEMANDING full recognition of the Second Amendment on our nation's campuses, and, in fact, adopted the Brady position? And are you limiting the "discussion" to universities, or are you now also considering changing your inexcusable position on banning guns at primary education facilities?
[Via Alan]
Thursday, May 17, 2007
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In the Al-Anon literature (IIRC, the Twelve Traditions) there's a passage about "money property and prestige" as issues that may interfere with the getting the Al-Anon message across. I think it is in the parallel Alcoholics Anonymous document also.
I've thought for years that US citizens have needed a 12th Step program of some kind. Being a clueless New Yorker, it took quite a while to realize that a local program needed a shooting range involved (which granted, would involve issues of property and money)
The connection with "Is Wayne LaPierre coming aroung" is that I've noticed that even initially
honest .orgs too often becdome attached to policies that don't serve their stated purpose but do guarantee the .orgs existence, at least for quite a while. I can't quite bring myself to name the some of these. Thanks to having been a TNA subscriber, I never did think much of the NRA though.
Another observation: An organization can become proponents
of policies that diametrically oppose their stated mission. At least one adult reading program for which I started to do the initial intake requested information on whether one believed
in any phonics system. The instructor in one for which I completed the training stated "these people aren't *ready* to learn the alphabet.
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