Things that make you go hmmmm.

November 17, 1871 -
George Wood Wingate and William Conant Church established the National Rifle Association in New York on this date.

Today, the group has more than 4.3 million members (as of October 2014.)

To put that into a little perspective:

Nine million college students are members of a Greek organization

More than five million American are members of NORML

More than five million laborers are members of AFL-CIO

More than seven million people are members of Planned Parenthood

The American Sheep Industry has a membership of more than five million members

MoveOn.org has a membership list of more than eight million people

(Ask yourself if any of your representatives live in fear of being on the wrong side of these organizations?)