The NRA Speaks Out Against Packing Heat

It may surprise you to discover that the National Rifle Association has recently strayed quite far from its traditional moderate views to embrace much more radical policies. For instance, the position of the NRA on carrying guns in public has changed over time.

Has the leadership of the NRA embraced the developing maturation of American social conscience, or have they been lured to pander to the interests of weapon manufacturers? I usually try to resist cut-and-paste columns, but I want to offer some cherry-picked quotations drawn from “academic histories of the NRA” for your consideration.

“I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” - NRA President Karl T. Frederick, praising state gun control laws when he testified in Congress before the 1938 federal gun control law passed.

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The Certain Rewards of Hard Work

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Short stories by David Satterlee

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Life Will Get You in the End:
Short Stories by David Satterlee

My first wife used to claim that "No good deed goes unpunished." Maybe she was right. A seasoned warrior's obviously-skilled accomplishments are noticed by his king. What could be better than being an honored leader of men?

The Certain Rewards of Hard Work

“A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God “
Ecclesiastes 2:24 NIV

“Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.”
Proverbs 22:29 NIV

Nonak is a warrior. Let us not be coy about it; his profession is killing men. In fact, not to put too fine a point on it, his job also calls for killing women, children, and livestock as well. The essence of his craft is to weaken and demoralize competing peoples and to repurpose their valuables for the benefit of those left back home. His work demands that he be skilled at murder, mayhem, looting, plundering, and rape.

Now, before you start to smirk, consider how difficult it is to organize the systematic rape of every woman and maiden in a territory, the difficulty of