The NRA wasn’t always this crazy

Salon has a list of seven quotes that reveal just how extreme the NRA has become.

I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.

That’s NRA President Karl T. Frederick, testifying in Congress before the 1938 federal gun control law passed.

January 23, 2013