The NRA Opens Fire   What an elitist, that Barack Obama,
thinking he's somehow above ordinary people, like he has some
particularly critical job or something, and he and his family
might be unique targets for violence requiring special
protection! It's almost like he thinks he's the president!   I
think what this ad shows, beyond the obvious conclusion that the
NRA leadership is a bunch of crazy people, is that persuasion
isn't part of their strategy. They know that they're facing the
greatest threat they have in years, and they've concluded that
the way to win this conflict over whether gun laws will be
changed is to rile up their base. They want their most fervent
supporters as paranoid and angry as possible, to get them to
write letters and call their members of Congress to keep them in
line. And it just might work.   The children killed in CT were
just as special as any politicians. I am quite sure that at
least one set of parents of those children wish there was at
least one armed guard at their school.