Why did the NRA go apeshit? It's very simple. The anti-gun nuts went apeshit and demanded "no guns" so the NRA decided to oppose EVERY SINGLE piece of proposed legislation as a matter of course in their own defence.

It ain't rocket science. When an "opponent" says they are gonna take you out you do what you have to to defend yourself. The NRA was, as Dan says, a great organization that promoted gun safety and so on... but, when faced with a bunch of anti gun nuts who were illogical and wanted to take their LEGAL guns away, they assessed their position and decided the only way to fight these assholes was a zero tolerance response. I may not agree (my memberships have lapsed too) but I understand.

Seriously, to say the NRA has gone "nuts" is to disregard their obviously expected response to the real "nuts". If the anti gun nuts were reasonable and logical, I believe the NRA could be their allies but the anti gun nuts are just plain illogical, have little knowledge of the many situations of gun ownership and so on and so on as has been said on threads in the Mudcat soooo many times before... they just don't understand and they just don't listen. They hide behind vague statistics with vague correlations and speak with emotions rather than facts and logic and make unreasonable demands upon legal and resposible gun owners based on spreading fear and lies. They know nothing about living in the backwoods.

I am gonna stop now. It's all been said and done so many times.

Fact is, I applaud Canada's gun laws even tho I disagree with some of them. I am appalled by the lack of such gun laws in the US. BUT, I am TRULY appalled by the gun laws proposed by the anti gun nuts.