The hunters should band together to give the NRA a beat down.
What she fails to explain is that the hunting culture in this country would be nonexistent without the NRA.
McCaulou's been making the rounds on HuffPo and the
Atlantic for the last year or so. She has all the right talking points, which leads me to believe she's on the Brady/Bloomberg payroll.
They learned not to demonize gun owners after the 1994 dustup. Following Newtown, they decided to make the NRA a strawman. The narrative is that the NRA collects hundreds of millions of dollars in blood money from the gun industry, which it uses to buy every politician on Capitol Hill.
From there, it's easy to imply that their proposals don't gain traction because they're fighting a gallant David vs. Goliath fight.
In reality, they are lying. No, actually
lying. They're deliberately mixing up the budget of the NRA Foundation and the NRA-ILA. The Foundation is where our membership dues go. It's a 501(c)(3), so it can't engage in political lobbying.
The NRA-ILA is the lobbying arm, and it is supported by direct donations. So, what's their budget?
Barely enough to even get noticed on Capitol Hill.
Compare that ~$4 million with the $20 million Americans for Responsible Solutions (Gabrielle Gifford's PAC), or with the $50 million pledged by Michael Bloomberg for Moms Demand Action and Everytown.
So, how does the NRA keep winning?
They don't. It's the
members who do it, by putting pressure on their elected officials. The NRA helps raise awareness, but the idea that they're buying Washington is utter drivel.
The fact is, the gun-control lobby is blowing wads of cash, and they have only a couple ineffectual laws in a couple of states to show for it. That frustrates them to no end, but they don't dare admit that they're losing because the majority of the population doesn't really want what they're selling.
And that hacks them off to no end. Thus the recent lapses into insults and petty frustrations we've seen from them, going all the way up to the Oval Office.