"The NRA is venal. They come after you, they put together large amounts of money to defeat you," she said on CNN's "State of the Union." "They did this in '93, and they intend to continue it."
Feinstein claims the NRA, and by default its members, are the biggest "stumbling block" when it comes to passing her broad gun control legislation.
This came only days after CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer compared the NRA to Nazis.
Her statements come on Holocaust Rememberance Day, a day on which many are taking the time to remember and reflect the destruction of so many innocent lives.
It is time for a calm recitation of some simple, basic truths....
To attack the NRA as “venal” or an organization as “Nazis” is a casual and indirect way to express contempt for millions of Americans and their beliefs while maintaining plausible deniability.
It is a lot like attacking the “Jewish lobby” while avoiding the charge of anti-Semitism. It is disturbing but unsurprising that a liberal Jew like Feinstein would fail to understand that.
My father is a Holocaust survivor and an NRA member. If more Jews had been armed during the Holocaust, there might have been more dead Nazis and fewer dead Jews by the end of the war.
Is it Feinstein’s intent to imply that people like my father are venal for wanting to make sure that the words “never again” mean exactly that?
