Why Is the NRA So Powerful on Gun Control?

The National Rifle Association is taking heat after Adam Lanza's shooting rampage killed 27 people in Newtown, Connecticut. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted the NRA and said its political might is a "myth," but many still consider it the most powerful lobbying group in the country, despite relatively modest financial resources and just 4 million members. How did the NRA get to be so powerful?

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[Conglo88]

Why is the NRA so powerful? Simple, people still believe in the second amendment and they will vote it.

[superravmanrampage]

@Chris Fields HAHAHAHA THAT'S SO STUPID!

[Chris Fields]

Google violent crime after gun laws in whichever country you're interested....I haven't found any that show a drop although I may not have looked at them all....I have looked at several

[Chris Fields]

Got that from NCPA

[Chris Fields]

Between 1995 and 2007 all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent. Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent. Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent. At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent. Australian women are now raped 3x more than US

[Chris Fields]

Those sites you mentioned are left leaning ergo they're biased.

Firearm homicides in Australia were declining before 1996 and the decline has simply continued at the same rate since, McPhedran says. (In 2002-3, Australia's rate of 0.27 gun-related homicides per 100,000 people was one-fifteenth that of the U.S. rate.)

Got that from time magazine referring to actual gun crimes

[Chris Fields]

Crimes involving the use of firearms comprise around 0.4 per cent of all recorded offences

in England and Wales and have doubled since the mid to late-1990s (Povey and Kaiza,

2006: 81). This increase has occurred against a background of increasingly restrictive

legislation and ever more sophisticated public policy responses. At the same time, a small

number of high-profile and shocking firearm homicides have raised considerably public

concerns. Got that from npiadotpolicedotuk.

[AizenIzPro]

Wikipedia? I looked at the GPI and Australia did get safer...try websites like huffintonpost or politofact

[AizenIzPro]

she is partly to blame. You have an unstable son and you keep all those guns in the house with easy access.

[Chris Fields]

It hasn't happened because we always had guns...Kids shooting a bunch of others didn't happen until gun free zones were implemented...Think! These mass shootings only started trending recently here....The gun free school zones act of 1990....Coincidence that the 90's were when mass shootings started to trend?

Think!