THE NRA

« THE NRA National Rifle Association of America (NRA), leading gun rights organization in the United States.

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) was founded in 1871 as a governing body for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols.

By the early 21st century it claimed a membership of nearly five million target shooters, hunters, gun collectors, gunsmiths, police, and other gun enthusiasts. Among the NRA’s more important activities beginning in the second half of the 20th NRA commercial to be summarized and commented upon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJo2xlmT29I Summary : Never fight if you can avoid it.

But when you must fight, don't lose.

And when nothing less than freedom is at stake.

We fight.

We're millions of people just.

Just like you.

We're the longest standing civil rights organization in the US.

Proud defenders of history's, Patriots, protectors of the Second Amendment.

Advocating the right to keep and bear arms. Advancing the shooting sports, championing gun safety, education and training.

Creating a vital legacy by answering Freedom's call.

And we're growing stronger every day.

We are the NRA and the NRA. NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said one time what was going to be one of the biggest myths of the XXI century « To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun ». Commentary : Why has gun control been such a difficult, controversial, and intractable issue in American politics? THE COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that circled the globe in 2020 posed a fundamental threat to the social order and economies of nations, including the United States, where the virus hit with particular force.

Yet unlike other nations, some Americans sought protection and solace not only from face masks, rubber gloves, and social distancing, but from—wait for it—guns.

To be sure, firearms are ineffective against a virus, but they are highly effective to give a response to Americans’ panic and insecurity . Therein lies the paradox.

The impulse of some to reach for a gun, or lots of guns, in anticipation of some kind of societal apocalypse is founded in a desire for greater safety and security.

But it also opens the door to unwanted gun mayhem with the rise of domestic violence, the heightened prospect of an increase in gun suicides, accidents, and within-home homicides at a time when the chief public health recommendation « was that Americans stay home ».

To return to an earlier question: why do relatively simple metal-and-wood objects that do nothing more than propel small bits of metal at high speeds evoke such strong feelings? 1) The first answer is because of the nature of regulation.

Whenever the government seeks to apply its coercive powers directly to shape individual conduct, the prospect of controversy is great, especially in a nation with a long tradition of individualism.

According to the policy analyst Theodore J. Lowi, when the likelihood of government coercion is immediate—that is, when the behavior of individual citizens is directly affected, as in the case of regulation—the prospect of controversy is high.

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