

Paranoid NRA leaders subvert group's purpose

4:04 PM, Mar. 1, 2013  |  Comments

As a Korean War veteran, I know what the body of another soldier looks like after he has been shot. What I cannot imagine is what the body of a 6-year-old looks like after it has been shredded by 10 or 11 rounds from a deranged gunman.

I'm a National Rifle Association member, but the NRA leadership is under the control of the paranoid. How can the NRA say it wants to keep guns out of the hands of the criminals and mentally unstable - and at the same time object to universal background checks that would identify them?

How can the NRA object to control of high-capacity magazines, the very thing that allows a gunman to slaughter 26 people in five minutes, firing multiple rounds into the bodies of little children - and at the same time allow the control of the number of rounds in shotguns used for hunting?

Almost a century ago, the NRA helped to make murder weapons like machine guns and sawed-off shotguns illegal in the hands of civilians.

The NRA should go back to its roots as the keeper of the wonderful traditions of sportsmanship, not the protector of the paranoid few who fear society and the government.

George Koehler


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