Archive for May, 2011

The Sporting Shooters Association and the Promotion of Fear

The SSAA (Sporting Shooters Association of Australia) publications have shown us that they would like to have guns available for self-defence. The SSAA is closely tied to the extremist gun doctrines of the NRA (National Rifle Association of America). Until 2007 the SSAA was proud to tell everyone (On the front page of its commercial magazine, the Australian Shooter) that it was affiliated with the NRA, but as the public became aware of the danger that NRA gun doctrine extremism posed to this cou...