Monthly Archives: August 2012

Call me elitist, but it’s always been hard to understand how so-called rugged individualists, armed to the teeth with as many weapons and bullets they want, can possibly position themselves as defenders of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They align themselves with far right hate groups and, as in the case of the NRA leadership, with corporate power, especially the power of the oil industry and the gun manufacturing industry. How many deaths will it take for Americans to wake up to the underlying reality of the lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association? How many people just going about their lives, trying to have a good time, raising their kids