NRA enemies list

One of the publications I read reported that the NRA has an "enemies list," and listed a small selection of organizations on that list, and I suspected that, perhaps, the NRA was revealing an anti-Semitic streak.  But when I studied the whole list, I found that wasn't the case.

The list, to clarify, is of organizations and prominent individuals who have pro-gun control policies, and/or who have given money to promote such policies.

Looking at the list, I see that the overwhelming majority of its members come from the medical and helping professions.  Doctors, nurses, and psychologists are the ones who deal every day with death, wounds, and trauma inflicted by firearms.  These are the folks who would be expected to know just how big the problem is.

Next, numerically, are educational and child advocacy groups.  And we certainly don't need an explanation as to why that is.

The third largest category is religious groups.  This fact makes me happy because it reassures me that most religious groups are still peaceful and loving by nature.  It is interesting to note, also, that despite the worries of the Second Amendment absolutists that citizens will be defenseless against some future fascist or socialist dictator unless everyone can own a gun, several Jewish organizations are on record as wanting more gun control.

The gun lobby has told us that the Jews might have been able to save themselves had they been armed. Jews have, indeed, been persecuted and murdered in huge numbers by the governments of Nazi Germany and the USSR.  It is also true, however, that before World War II, Jews were killed in large numbers by mobs of their non-Jewish neighbors.  So, as I stress time and again, the government is not the only entity we have to fear.  While my last observation might strike you as a reason for increased gun ownership, many Jewish and African American organizations don't agree.