NRA First VP claims that they are fighting a "culture war." Apparently they think a culture war involves actual bullets.

Courtesy of ABC News:  

NRA First Vice President James Porter, who will take over the top job Monday, issued a full-throated challenge in the opening hours to President Barack Obama after the NRA's major victory on gun control and a call to dig in for a long fight that will stretch into the 2014 elections. 

More than 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the three-day convention amid the backdrop of the defeat of a major gun control bill in the U.S. Senate that was introduced after December's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. 

Porter's remarks came in a short speech to about 300 people at a grass-roots organizing meeting and set the tone for a "Stand and Fight"-themed convention that is part gun trade show, political rally and strategy meeting. 

"This is not a battle about gun rights," Porter said, calling it "a culture war." 

"(You) here in this room are the fighters for freedom. We are the protectors," said Porter, whose father was NRA president from 1959-1960.

Let me get this straight, these idiots think they are "fighters for freedom" in the middle of a "culture war?"

What "culture" are they "fighting" for?

Could it be the culture that allows a room full of kindergarteners to be gunned down in their elementary school with an assault rifle?

Or perhaps a culture that allows a man to purchase an Uzi, without background checks, in the parking lot of a Babies-R-Us?

Or perhaps a culture that allows a five year old boy to kill his two year old sister with a gun made specifically for him to handle more efficiently?

Or perhaps one that makes sure that a boy who attempts to rape his one mother can then riddle her body with bullets from his 22 caliber?

Is that it? Is that the "culture" they are trying to protect?

And by the way it is not lost on me that the NRA has usurped evangelical talking points in order to make their case.  There is no more fertile ground to plant your seeds than that tilled by a lifetime of exposure to religion.

And Christians are tailor made for those who want to convince a constituency that they are being persecuted. I would suggest that if somebody were to walk around this NRA meeting and ask each person their religious affiliation, almost ALL of them would self identify as Christians. Most likely Fundamentalist Christians.

And the hypocrisy of worshiping a man of immense peace and acceptance while arguing for access to weapons designed for murder would be completely lost on them.

Gee I wonder how many more bodies will pile up while these "patriots" fight for their freedoms? Personally I think the death toll is too fucking high already!