NRA Blacklist Update
A follow-up on the NRA blacklist (which, since yesterday, has moved to a new location on the NRA-ILA site):
Will, who is very smart, points out that: "If every national organization kept lists like that we might just find out that everyone is wrong all the time about everything."
This is true, all true, and I am guilty as charged. Having a big list of people who think you're wrong is not sufficient cause to reconsider whether you are actually wrong.
Will also notes: "Personally, I'm not going to change my mind on an issue like gun legislation because Madonna tells me to."
What I found eye-opening about the blacklist page was not that there were so many celebrities on itóI don't have any interest in taking political cues from Madonna, eitheróbut that there were so many groups and companies listed that don't seem like they ought to have any kind of institutional interest in guns one way or the other. I'm thinking of examples like the AARP, American Bar Association, AMC Cinemas, Hallmark, the Kansas City Chiefs, Levi Struass & Co., Sprint, and Time Warner. My knee-jerk reaction, basically, was that if a football club has taken the time and bother to come out against your position on guns, you might start to wonder.
But in the grand scheme of things, I'm not all that worked up about guns. I'm not going to buy one, and I'd tell anyone who asked me that they shouldn't buy one, either, but I'm a lot more concerned about at least a dozen other political issues.
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