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anonymous@anonymous.org (anonymous) writes:

>On 28 Apr 1997 19:20:52 GMT, mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu (Michael T Shinn)
>wrote:

>>            National Rifle Association (NRA) On Campus!

>It's regrettable that you didn't announce this earlier, so that a
>strenuous protest could be organized to combat this evil group, which
>in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing tragedy issued a fund-raising
>letter referring to law enforcment agents as "jack-booted government
>thugs."   (The letter prompted lifelong member and sportsman George
>Bush to resign from the organization in protest of its turn to
>extremism.)

What a crock.

First, NRA did not issue that fund-raising letter "in the wake of the
Oklahoma City Bombing[sic] tragedy" as you claim.  The letter was part
of a fundraising campaign that was designed and begun well in advance of
the OKC bombing.  I received my copy of it weeks before April 19.  But
as with other large direct mail campaigns, these things are not all
mailed at once to better distribute the workload of the mailing and
processing of returns.  And like other direct mail campaigns, there is a
nontrivial amount of inertia in the system that takes time to stop after
something happens that makes it clearly undesirable to continue it.

Second, Bush was never a lifelong member.  He is a cheap political whore
who joined a few years before he quit.  He joined for passing political
advantage and he quit for precisely the same reason.  Bush does not now
and has at no time in the past had the slightest interest in the needs
of the average American, whether sportsman or not, and he has less than
zero support for the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Not a single NRA member regrets his selfish and hypocritical departure.
We are well rid of him.

>Next time let us know at least a week in advance, ok?

Would the extra time help you get your facts straight?  Would the extra
time help you find the courage to sign your name to your lying little
missives?

Bill