The NRA is a trade association. It protects the interests of the industry that manufactures and markets firearms--not the interests of the consumers who buy and use them, or the victims of gun death and injury.

Perhaps at one time, they did serve the interests of their members by organizing shooting sports and teaching gun safety. But now their members are corporations, many of them foreign, and they work tirelessly to ensure that there are absolutely no controls and regulations on firearm distribution and availability. The goal is to ensure ever-increasing gun sales by constantly introducing new models and creating demand for them.

Firearms are very durable items. They last a lifetime, and can be passed from father to son. A quality firearm design does not soon become obsolete--the .45 Auto is a century old and still highly prized by shooters. The only way for the industry to become an ever-growing and constantly expanding business is to increase demand by constantly creating a need among consumers

The way to do this is with fear, by seeing to it that guns are available to criminals (by the sheer number of them in society) and that this criminal use is matched by the paranoia of non-criminal users seeking to defend themselves. Whether or not this paranoia is justified is irrelevant, the point is to increase sales, growth and profits for the seller.

But even this tactic has pretty much saturated the market. If you are defending your home from an intruder, you will only be able to wield one gun at a time, regardless of how many you own. The new strategy is to create a meme of political tyranny and foreign invasion, and brave patriots combating it, of resourceful survivalists navigating post-apocalyptic chaos. Its like selling big V-8 muscle cars to middle age suburban boy-men. The economics is tied in with the psychology--and penis size.

I like guns, I like to play with them too as I'll be the first to admit; but I understand why I do and I don't let it control my life, or mold my thinking. I don't need Communist invaders, ghetto thugs or black helicopters to justify my hobbies.

The NRA is a very evil organization. They are arms merchants, gun runners, mercenaries. They sell to both sides in a conflict, and are not picky about creating conflicts where none exist. In the past their kind sold repeating rifles to the Indians, knowing it was good for business in the long run. Now its AKs and ARs. They have blood on their hands, they are the Masters of War. Not even god could forgive what they do.

The dawn is red, all right.