"The NRA lobbies for handguns, automatic weapons, and other firearms that hunters don't use." So it's okay to trample the little guys, as long as they're not too numerous? Or as long as they're not your guys? Or as long as you don't enjoy their recreations?

Huh?

What the hell does this mean, John? Who are the "little guys" supposed to be, the handgun lobby?

No, my point was that your propaganda was copied from a "factsheet" distributed by a lobbying organization whose agenda is not hunting but guns. To claim that the NRA opposing Kerry means he is "anti-hunting" requires the premise that they are about hunters' rights. They are not. They are about guns and the gun industry.

Kerry may be "unfriendly" to SOME hunters, if they wish to use certain guns that he opposes. If they wish to use a handgun or an uzi, for example, he would be "unfriendly" to them, although I understand that most hunters do not use these weapons. In SOME cases, weapons that Kerry wishes to regulate and weapons that hunters wish to use may coincide. But WHY he opposes the guns is an important question, and the NRA doesn't care. They simply spout meaningless rhetoric like

Kerry wants to silence gun owners' voices. When NRA sought the same exemption from campaign finance rules that news organizations have, Kerry called that effort "hijacking America's airwaves."

As though this has anything to do with hunting.