“It’s funny, isn’t it, how it’s always people on the right who keep these lists.” – The Daily Beast

National Rifle Association President David Keene (left) talks with NRA executive Wayne LaPierre last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence. (Susan Walsh/AP)

“The fact that the NRA was keeping a list of its foes isn’t all that bizarre. But the list itself is positively loony—yet more evidence of just how nuts the NRA is, says Michael Tomasky.”

“One of the sure markers of the paranoid mind is the urge to keep lists. In particular, lists of enemies, subversives, no-goodniks; the pestilential nuisances, as Sir W.S. Gilbert famously put it, who never would be missed. It virtually goes without saying that the keepers of such lists are always the bullies who survive by fomenting hatred and making sure that their constituents stay in a state of constant agitation. And so it was no surprise to learn over the weekend, via Josh Marshall, that the National Rifle Association has a little list of 497 people and organizations who are in some way, shape, or form anti-gun. It makes for hilarious reading, although it’s sort of frightening to think about the demented minds of the people who assembled it.

“The list consists of 141 organizations, 228 celebrities, 27 ‘national figures’ who are somehow different from celebrities, 37 journalists, 41 corporations and/or corporate CEOs, and 23 media outlets, all of whom are out to pry that Bushmaster from your warm, live hands. Some of the organizations make perfect sense. The American Civil Liberties Union. Sure. The American Trauma Society. I have no idea what precisely they do, but okay, it stands to reason that if trauma is their racket, they’re probably not big on people amassing large numbers of automatic weapons. Women Strike for Peace. You don’t say!

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