{"id":1663,"date":"2010-06-17T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2010-06-17T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:38:23","slug":"nra-sells-us-out-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/nra-sells-us-out-again\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA sells us out &#8212; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a rumor earlier this week, but now seems confirmed. The traitorous NRA has once again sold out gun owners and liberty &#8212; this time by crafting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/rs_insider\/2010\/06\/15\/national-rifle-associations-first-amendment-sellout\/\" target=\"_blank\">special exemption for itself<\/a> to an upcoming campaign finance law. <\/p>\n<p>Now, with a provision in place to protect organizations that just happen to look exactly like the NRA, it&#8217;s ready to accept an anti-free speech bill.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of the 2nd amendment? Hardly. Even if the Bill of Rights was a Chinese menu from which you could pick your favorites, the NRA has made sure that its oh-so-special provisions ensure that some other, smaller, tougher political gun groups, like Gun Owners of America (which just happen to be growing while NRA members increasingly desert), are muzzled while the big old NRA gets to continue peddling its message of &#8220;compromise, compromise, compromise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a done deal yet. I hope they choke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a rumor earlier this week, but now seems confirmed. The traitorous NRA has once again sold out gun owners and liberty &#8212; this time by crafting a special exemption for itself to an upcoming campaign finance law. Now, with a provision in place to protect organizations that just happen to look exactly like the NRA, it&#8217;s ready to accept an anti-free speech bill. For the sake of the 2nd amendment? Hardly. Even if the Bill of Rights was a Chinese menu from which you could pick your favorites, the NRA has made sure that its oh-so-special provisions&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/nra-sells-us-out-again\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NRA sells us out &#8212; again<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}