On: Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers

[wallace_f]

> Jeff Sessions was involved in prosecution of civil rights activists in Alabama, and is known for his hard anti-drug stance. Both of those are pertinent to civil rights, yet NRA ignored it.

Those are good points. They also concern me. Is there a better organization which fights for second amendment rights that you recommend?

[int_19h → wallace_f]

I'm afraid I don't have a good (as in, satisfying) answer to this question. I do have a more broad answer, however:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536435

[scdoshi → wallace_f]

The non existence of other orgs fighting for second ammendment rights, even if it were true, is a pretty weak argument for supporting this particular one, especially given that you agree there are good reasons not too do so.

[bmelton → wallace_f]

To keep from repeating myself, I'm going to link to another comment I just made -- but I prefer the SAF to the NRA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634802

https://www.saf.org/

[int_19h → bmelton]

I would not recommend SAF anymore. The reason is that their (effectively) lobbying wing, CCRKBA, had also endorsed Sessions, using even stronger wording than NRA.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-urges-members...

"Instead of promoting or defending schemes that impact law-abiding Americans, his track record shows that he will go after genuine criminals."

Note that the man who said this is Alan Gottlieb, who's also effectively the head of SAF.