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NRA Takes Aim at Senate
Josey1
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NRA Takes Aim at Senate
"You are why Al Gore isn't in the White House," exhorted National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre Saturday in Reno, Nevada.
"No other group could have done what we did collectively in 2000 - and now it's time to finish the job."
Addressing 4,500 delegates at the NRA's 131st annual convention, La Pierre vowed to repeat the group's fundraising and get-out-the-vote success in this year's battle of the Senate.
"The Senate is the hole in our armor," he told the crowd. "The Senate is our battleground."
Though little noted by today's largely anti-gun media, the NRA's political efforts have become the engine of the Republican Party, replacing the Christian Coalition as the party's most effective grass roots political organization.
Another factor auguring well for political success: the 9-11 attacks have changed to nation's mindset. Gun sales are reportedly skyrocketing around the country, with gun controlling politicians said to be softening their positions to please the new security-minded electorate. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/4/28/120624
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
"You are why Al Gore isn't in the White House," exhorted National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre Saturday in Reno, Nevada.
"No other group could have done what we did collectively in 2000 - and now it's time to finish the job."
Addressing 4,500 delegates at the NRA's 131st annual convention, La Pierre vowed to repeat the group's fundraising and get-out-the-vote success in this year's battle of the Senate.
"The Senate is the hole in our armor," he told the crowd. "The Senate is our battleground."
Though little noted by today's largely anti-gun media, the NRA's political efforts have become the engine of the Republican Party, replacing the Christian Coalition as the party's most effective grass roots political organization.
Another factor auguring well for political success: the 9-11 attacks have changed to nation's mindset. Gun sales are reportedly skyrocketing around the country, with gun controlling politicians said to be softening their positions to please the new security-minded electorate. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/4/28/120624
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878