I'm assuming the results will show that people get killed with guns. We don't need to spend any money on that. The question is, and has always been twofold: Who is doing the shooting and why, and are those shootings justification for violating the constitutional rights of people who aren't doing the shooting?Blind groper wrote:Seth
Your view on gun research is revealing. You are assuming before the research is done that it will show guns to be bad. I suspect that you know, deep down, that guns are a net detriment to society, and that is why you oppose people actually doing the research to find out.
You have some evidence of this "tens of millions of dollars" I suppose? I'd like to see it, not that it matters.On the NRA.
They are wealthy, not because of the membership of a minority of the USA, but because they are fed tens of millions of dollars by the gun manufacturers. Such bribes make organisations corrupt.
Of course gun manufacturers and other gun sport businesses are going to contribute to the NRA. The NRA is the most effective lobbying organization on gun rights matters that exists anywhere on the planet, and since both manufacturing guns and gun-related items are fully lawful and constitutionally protected commercial activities, it is in the best interests of the business community to support the organization that speaks for them before their elected representatives. It's not "bribery" and it's not "corrupt" for an organization whose purpose is to lobby on behalf of gun rights and shooting sports to take money from it's members or it's commercial supporters, any more than it's corrupt for the Sierra Club or the Wild Earth Guardians to take money from their supporters and the "green" industry.
The Supreme Court recently affirmed with finality that money equals speech, particularly when it comes to political speech. Corporations and businesses have the same constitutional right to engage in political speech in their commercial interests as an individual does, and therefore they have the right to contribute to political lobbying organizations or trade groups that support their industry interests before Congress.
You, being a Marxist, clearly don't like that fact, but a fact it remains, which makes your deliberate and mendacious mischaracterization of the NRA nothing more than sour grapes and whining from someone who just wants to have his way regardless of the impact on the rights of others.