Uncle observes a tendency of some gun owners to spend more time and effort attacking each other than attacking the real enemy, the Judean People’s Front Brady Center to Prevent Gun Ownership. Usually the fight is between the NRA-ILA and smaller, more ideologically pure organizations like Gun Owners of America. My response has generally been to advocate that those who favor a more ideological NRA should join both organizations, thereby lending support both to those whose views most closely matched theirs and to the group which, like it or not, is far more likely to get anything done.

After reading this idiocy, I’m seriously wondering whether GOA has anything of value to offer at all. John McCain is hardly my first choice as President, but when it comes to guns, he runs circles around anyone who has served in my lifetime, let alone GOA’s. Yet GOA gives him an F-, almost entirely for reasons unrelated to guns. Imagine if this idiocy were applied to real grades. You know, the kind they give you in school. Suppose your son or daughter came home from school one day with a report card that showed an F in biology, which surprised you because you already knew he had gotten the highest score on the final of any student not only in the current class, but if any class that particular teacher had taught. So you ask the teacher what went wrong, and he replies with “Your son/daughter is a real jerk. He/she sucks at everything, the big jerk, and I hate having him my class. And he’s a crappy student overall, um, I mean, in biology, yeah, that.” You respond by pointing out that not only doesn’t your son/daughter suck at biology, but that he/she had gotten the highest score on any of his tests, ever. The teacher grudgingly admits “Yeah, that’s true, but you should have seen the crap he wrote in his English class, and I hear from his history teacher that his essays in that class weren’t too hot, either.” What does any of this have to do with biology, you ask. “Well, it just goes to show he’s a bad student, and really should get an F somewhere, so I’m giving him an F here. And oh, by the way, while his test may have had the highest score of any student I’ve ever had, it wasn’t a perfect score, as he did get one minor detail wrong, and I like to think of myself as a ‘no-compromise’ kind of guy, except for that other nerdy kid I gave an A to for doing slightly worse than your kid in biology, but writing English essays I liked much better. So screw you, your kid’s F stands.”

If that happened, would you allow your kid to remain in that idiot teacher’s class? If not, is there any earthly reason why I should not cancel my GOA membership yesterday?