{"id":6345,"date":"2012-07-02T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2012-07-02T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:56:59","slug":"why-is-the-nra-so-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6345","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the NRA So Powerful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slate asks the question, “Why Is the NRA So Powerful?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

These pictures give us a clue. \u00a0The first is from our lobby day back in March when a few thousand people from all across the state paid their own way to come to Albany to lobby their legislators. \u00a0The second is from New Yorker’s Against Gun Violence’s<\/a> lobby day back in April when Jackie Hilly had to bus in a couple dozen or so kids from Crown Heights to the Legislative Office Building so she wouldn’t be lonely standing in the Well all by herself.<\/p>\n

\"NYSRPA<\/p>\n

\"NYAGV<\/p>\n

The answer to Slate’s question is real simple: We have actual members and represent a real constituency. \u00a0The antis are just astroturf.<\/p>\n

H\/T: SNBQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n