Are you an enemy of the NRA?

The NRA is keeping a blacklist of so-called anti-gun organizations, journalists, activists, and celebrities, writes the New York Times' Bob Herbert (yep, he's on the list). The 19-page document singles out such rogue groups as B'nai B'rith, the YWCA, the Kansas City Chiefs, Hallmark, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, not to mention Art Garfunkel, Walter Cronkite, Dr. Joyce Brothers, C. Everett Koop, Ann Landers, and Coleman McCarthy. Herbert writes:

No number of gun-related fatalities or serious injuries is sufficient to deter the N.R.A. from its fanatical course. A former N.R.A. lawyer has admitted in an affidavit in a lawsuit that distributors and gun dealers have for years been illegally diverting guns that end up in the hands of criminals, and that the industry has closed its eyes to the practice.

Instead of fighting to end this threat to the public's safety, the gun lobby and its allies in Congress are pushing legislation that would protect the practice by granting special immunity from liability to gun manufacturers and sellers.

The big item on the legislative agenda next year is the federal assault-weapons ban signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Because of a sunset provision, the law will expire next September if it is not renewed by Congress and the president. The gun lobby has made it clear that it will do all in its power to bury the ban. The plan is to not even let the issue come up for a vote.

Learn more at NRAblacklist.com or StoptheNRA.com.