It’s not an accident. At the end of the day the NRA exists because the dynamic is they can deliver votes, and that gives them power they can turn into money. They deliver votes by riling people up. If they were genuinely interested in protecting 2A rights, there’s plenty of in-between they could go for, but that doesn’t get people riled up. The guy in vegas didn’t use any loop-hole, and shouldn’t have passed his background check; he just was never added to the database. There are plenty of laws which aren’t achieving their intent for one reason or another but we all need to abide by anyway. If the NRA was true to their mission, this is the lowest hanging fruit they could address. But they aren’t a 2A organization, they are a vote delivery machine first, foremost, and sometimes only.
It’s not an accident. At the end of the day the NRA exists because the dynamic is they can deliver votes, and that gives them power they can turn into money. They deliver votes by riling people up. If they were genuinely interested in protecting 2A rights, there’s plenty of in-between they could go for, but that doesn’t get people riled up. The guy in vegas didn’t use any loop-hole, and shouldn’t have passed his background check; he just was never added to the database. There are plenty of laws which aren’t achieving their intent for one reason or another but we all need to abide by anyway. If the NRA was true to their mission, this is the lowest hanging fruit they could address. But they aren’t a 2A organization, they are a vote delivery machine first, foremost, and sometimes only.