Hold their fire

In a November 18 email to supporters, NRAblacklist.com quotes National Rifle Association Research Coordinator Paul Blackman as saying "Studies of homicide victims, especially the increasing number of younger ones, suggest they are frequently criminals themselves and/or drug addicts or users. It is quite possible that their deaths, in terms of economic consequences to society, are net gains."

Unfortunately, this horrific statement has no source listed and I imagine if confronted with it, NRA executives would either deny or downplay it, as they have in the past with other egregious sentiments. But what can't be denied (it's on their website) is that the NRA has issued a "Fact Sheet" (Isn't "NRA Fact Sheet" an oxymoron?) listing organizations, people, companies, and media outlets it labels "anti-gun." (The list is curious; it's meant to be rabble-rousing but I would think having 35 medical and health professional organizations, some law enforment groups, and a significant number of religious groups on it would give any but the most gaga gun nut pause, but apparently the NRA hierarchy doesn't think so.)

In response, StopTheNRA.com, a joint venture of the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence and the Million Mom March, established NRAblacklist.com, where people can contact the NRA and ask to be added to their "blacklist." As of November 18, the email says, some 80,000 have done so. Why not join them?