NRA Staunch Defender of Second Amendment
In Paula Poundstone’s piece (“The Good Old Days? Somebody Stole ‘Em,” Laugh Lines, April 25) she makes the false statement regarding the Old West that “they didn’t have the evil NRA then because nobody was against guns to begin with.”
In fact, the National Rifle Assn. was incorporated in 1871 during the relatively brief period between the Civil War and the turn of the century that we think of as the “Wild West” period.
It was during this era that attempts were made to disenfranchise and leave defenseless newly freed blacks by not allowing them to possess firearms as all other Americans could.
Sadly, Poundstone’s flippant claim that “nobody was against guns” is not true.
Since the very composition of the Constitution, potential tyrants, elitists, racists and simpletons who crave total government control have been trying to abolish our guaranteed Second Amendment freedoms.
THOMAS X. MORRISON
Los Angeles
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