Quote Originally Posted by clublights View Post
See that is part of it for me ..


The NRA has 5mil or so member which is only about 1.5% of the US population. While yes 5 million is a LOT of people 1.5% is not a very large percentage of the population.

You're right, but 5 million individual voices through 1 powerful lobbying group tends to be heard better than 50 million individual voices on their own.

ETA: Excellent post asmo. Simple, yet quite accurate.