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In <5k3gcv$rhg@portal.gmu.edu>, jbragg@mason2.gmu.edu (John W Bragg) writes:
>
>In article <3364f95a.6699868@news.gmu.edu> jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu
         (John M Atkinson) writes:
                (snip)
> ... but I do own a copy of this month's American
>Spectator, rightwing investigative magazine.  There's a long
>piece on the current power plays within the NRA, and Executive
>Vice PResident (Head Honcho) WAyne La Pierre is under siege 
>metaphorically from pro-militia elements. 
                (snip)
>Page 83, referring to La Pierre speaking at the annual convention
>in I think 1995. 
>"Unlike Knox, who panders to the extremes, 
                (snip)

        Please post enough more excerpts to make it a little plainer 
         what the A.S. is calling extremes, and whether it is their 
         error or yours to equate them with "pro-militia" elements.
          
      It is possible to consider the NRA soft on gun control
         (as Knox certainly does) and still differ with other 
         "extreme" positions: one can be pro-choice, for instance, or 
         pro-term limits, etc. and still believe the Bill of Rights 
         ought not to be a menu. Also, many of those supporting Knox 
         (and, I think, he himself) have taken the position that La 
         Pierre has been solid on politics but wrong on method -- 
         spending too much money, for instance, and needing in the 
         woeful Beltway Bandit phrase to "work smarter" instead of so 
         expensively.
         
       In particular, if Knox or any other NRA Board member 
         has been espousing particular groups presently calling 
         themselves militias, we should have specific references to 
         those espousals, so that we can check them. Talk of "a 
         militia" in the Constitutional sense, and talk of one of 
         these, is just the sort of thing I'd hate to trust any 
         reporter to get straight, especially against a deadline, 
         whatever his or her own politics.

      TIA.

                R.R. Neuswanger, Ph.D., NRA-L
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