Backpedalling on Wrong Wray Avenue

Pat Wray posts a comment over on Bitters blog.

He states:

The article you reference was designed as a GENERAL overview of hunters and gunowners and was, I believe, pretty accurate. It was not intended to represent everyone, nor should it have been interpreted as a slam against any portion of the gun owning community.

OK, that's nice Pat. In your article you keep saying "We". So YOU support further restrictions on fully auto weapons. YOU don't understand the concept of CCW. YOU want some sort of registration/tracking system for firearms. YOU use loaded terms like 'stockpiling' when we're fighting laws that classify an 'arsenal' as 500 rounds.

So YOU need to get on the web and in the papers and clarify yourself in no uncertain terms.

Why would Wray even want to be on the board of the NRA?

"But we need to look beyond the Internet, into the genesis of the anger and fear that fueled the Internet attacks. If we look closely, we will find the National Rifle Association, or NRA. For decades the NRA has fostered a climate of fear and paranoia among gun owners. They have hammered home the message that everyone is out to take our guns and that compromise is tantamount to treason. They created an attitude within their membership that anyone who disagreed was an enemy and the best defense was a good offense. Nowhere has that message taken root as strongly as within the owners of the military style rifles, and it was they who came after Zumbo in their thousands."

Had Wray done any actual research (unless he just meant this as an NRA hit piece), he would note that the "feeding frenzy" as he put it, started on Arfcom and that quite a few of these ""Vicious, vengeful, vitriolic jackals" are NOT NRA friendly, considering them to be about equal to the Brady Campaign when it comes to firearm rights. Articles like this fostered the belief that it was the NRA that started the attacks against Zumbo and gave more proverbial ammo to groups like the Brady Campaign.

So you've changed your views on this Pat? Do you no longer consider the NRA to be "fostering fear" or are they still doing it and you want "change"?