NRA Claims Responsibility for Dubya Election
from the bragging-or-complaining? dept.
The National Rifle Association claimed responsibility for the latest Bush presidency at the organization’s annual convention yesterday. By denying Gore votes in gun-happy states like Arkansas, West Virginia, and Tennessee, the theory goes, the NRA played a critical role in conveying the election to Bush. True enough, I suppose, but no greater a role than was played by Ralph Nader, Jeb Bush, Kathleen Harris, and the U.S. Supreme Court in giving dubya that little Florida “victory.” Anyway, the story reminds me of the child-gun safety lecture I attended the other day, and the funny/scary bumper sticker my friend Conner told me about: “You can have my gun when you pry it from my curious 8-year-old’s cold, lifeless fingers.”
