Obama should blame Tea Party, not NRA, for gun control defeat

[Luddly Neddite]

Tim Carney: Obama should blame Tea Party, not NRA, for gun control defeat | WashingtonExaminer.com

President Obama, according to his own telling, would have passed a gun control bill supported by nearly every American, but the National Rifle Association drove in trucks full of money and lobbyists, buying off senators.

Obama's story isn't true. The NRA doesn't work like the lobbies Obama is coziest with. And the NRA also wasn't the tip of the spear in the gun-rights fight this month. Here is the way things really went down:

Needless to say, the rest is at the link.

What I get from this is that the weirdos really do have some power. But, it also seems that more and more sane people are fed up with the grand standing and fascist ambitions.