Beiruty wrote:Bloomberg Problem is NRA has like 5,000,000 paying members and are very motivated to defend their 2nA rights. He has no paying member other than himself. It makes his drive laughable as it does not represent but himself. Target Senators know they are elected by constituents and not by Bloomberg no-vote money. Ads helps rally opposition, but most likely if those who are rallied are minority in the targeted areas, then it is just a public stunt for Bloomberg.
Bloomburg is fighting an uphill battle and I hope that it stays that way. In continuing the vilification of the NRA as an organization, Bloomberg and his cronies ignore a couple of elephants in the room.
1. The power of the NRA comes not from Chris Cox or Wayne LaPierre but from those 5M members. The money that the NRA has may come in part from the gun makers but I suspect that most of the funding is from individuals. The voting power to squeeze elected officials who stray from 2nd Amendment support most definitely comes from those members. The politicians do not shudder from the NRA organizational structure because of the individuals within it but because of the membership that supports it.
2. The rush on buying guns and ammo is NOT what some on in the gun grabbing crowd are trying to represent - the same small group of gun owners are buying more and more guns. What that translates to is that even more people who are most likely not NRA members have a stake in resisting Bloomy and his band of trouble makers. The NRA is just the tip of that iceberg.
That said, funding makes a difference and Bloomberg and Soros have a lot of advertisement money at their disposal. Like the NRA, they are targeting politicians who don't support their point of view. Anyone who thought that Bloomberg would cease to be a problem when he leaves office as mayor needs to reconsider. This is going to be a messy conflict conducted through the media for the foreseeable future.
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