I'm quite ready to believe that most gun-owners in the United Sates aren't nuts, and that the nuts are a small and unrepresentative minority.

What puzzles me is why they seem willing to allow this small and unrepresentative minbority of nuts who control the NRA to speak for them, and to get in the way of bringing in the kind of sensible gun controls that any gun-owner who isn't a nut would want to see.