Well, I sent 'em a note...
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I found a web site that is targeting and stereotyping people who have committed no crimes, and voiced no hatred. It's not "antisemitism," and it isn't strictly "racism," but it definitely is uninformed and ignorant bigotry.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/d_hate/links_antigov.html
I'm a competitive target shooter, and am quite appalled that your organization is targeting legitimate shooting/firearms sites, such as Women against Gun Control, and painting them with the same colors as skinheads, nazis and kluckers.
Since you likely have little or no experience with America's "gun culture," let me assure you that the vast majority of us share many of your beliefs and values. My father, armed with a Browning machine gun, helped liberate camps during the end days of WWII, and really doesn't like to talk about that period in history. Can't say as I blame him. Sometimes it's better to block the trauma, and go on with one's life. But I digress...
Unlike the stereotype you're likely familiar with, you should realize that many of us members of the "gun culture" are also members of minority groups. Many of us are women, senior citizens, gays, straights, whatever...
And this is defaming us all. I _do not_ like having my participation in this sport likened to membership in an organization such as the kluckers.
Your action in including the listings of the shooting sports webring, and similar sites, among garbage such as you have disturbs me greatly.
For what it's worth, I do, however, think that a few of your folks should rethink what appears to be their views about firearms and firearms ownership. Should you have anyone in the St. Louis area, I'd be more than happy to invite them as a guest to participate in or view a match, or to learn how to shoot.
In closing, I propose that a knowledge of firearms could be very useful. Had the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto had an organized militia, they likely would have been destroyed anyway. BUT, the destruction would have been loud and noisy, and possibly deterring.
I espouse that had Jim Crow laws not been so overwhelmingly designed to rid African-Americans of the right to own firearms, that the kluckers (hey, why should I dignify 'em by calling 'em anything else?) would have been a fairly short lived organization - if, the first time they burned a cross or tied to lynch someone, they became the target of righteous self defense, they would have run like the cowards they are. Those white sheets would have made excellent targets in the firelight, if their victims had only had the ability to fight back.
You can label haters in many ways, but they've generally got one thing in common. They're cowards. They will not attack a population which can resist.
Never again.
