Why Can’t Guns Be Fun?

Just a few short years ago, my friends in Gun-control Nation (now being referred to as ‘gun harms’) were gleefully celebrating what was going to be the demise of the NRA, largely because of the outstanding reportage by Mike Spies, along with the fact that the nation’s ‘first civil rights organization’ was going bankrupt and broke.

Yesterday, I received an email from the NRA inviting me to register early for next year’s annual shindig, which will take place in Dallas on May 16–19, 2024.

The show will feature 14 acres of guns and gear and if you can’t walk that far, you can always rent an electric cart. There will also be a banquet and auction to benefit the NRA’s lobbying effort, more than 50 free seminars and workshops for everything from Gun-A to Gun-Z, a national prayer breakfast and the usual appearance of anyone and everyone running for President on the GOP slate, although the November batting order may already be decided by May.

I wonder if the Fulton County sheriff or the Federal Bureau of Prisons will let Trump out of jail so he can attend this event? You may recall that when he ran for President in 2016, the NRA endorsed him more than six months before the election, something they hadn’t even done when Ronald Reagan showed up at the annual meeting in Philadelphia during the 1980 Presidential campaign.