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NRA Targets Obama, but Does Anyone Care?

Posted Jun 14, 08 3:51 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – The NRA is aiming both barrels at Barack Obama, but the gun rights group is no longer a formidable GOP weapon, the LA Times reports. Congress hasn’t passed gun control laws in 14 years, and Democrats are terrified to touch the issue, scarred from old campaigns. In other words, the NRA has won—and is a victim of its own success.

Though the NRA calls Obama “one of the most anti-gun politicians ever to set foot in Washington, DC,” he has vowed to protect gun rights with “reasonable and common-sense regulation.” That’s a far cry from Al Gore, who may have lost 8 years ago by touting gun control. This year? “The issue has been essentially removed from the political agenda,” one expert said.

Source Los Angeles Times

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NRA president Charlton Heston tells the crowd at a May 20, 2000 NRA meeting that that they can have his gun when they pry it "from my cold dead hands."   (AP Photo/Ric Feld, FILE)
Democrats are reluctant to tackle the gun issue.   (Shutterstock)
John Eritreo of Ellisville, Mo., examines one of the many guns on display during the National Rifle Association convention Friday, April 13, 2007 in St. Louis.   (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
A woman points a handgun with a laser sight on a wall display of other guns during the National Rifle Association convention Friday, April 13, 2007, in St. Louis.   (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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