Americans Flock to Get on NRA Blacklist
Wed Oct 29, 1:59 PM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Most blacklists are designed to intimidate. But thousands of Americans are clamoring to join one drawn up by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA's shadowy 19-page list of U.S. companies, celebrities, and news organizations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included. (Adds explosive device, paragraph 1, 6, easing of movement, 13)
"As a supporter of comprehensive gun safety measures, I was deeply disappointed when I discovered my name was not on the list," Hoffman wrote in a letter to the NRA that was released Tuesday.
"I was particularly surprised by the omission given my opposition to the loophole that makes it legal for 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns at gun shows," he added.
Americans Flock to Get on NRA Blacklist
Wed Oct 29, 1:59 PM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=4&u=/nm/20031029/od_nm/blacklist_dc By the way the power of black lists is fear.. once we all volunteer to go on one, the power of it goes away.
Yep my name is NOW in that list too.
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