Vox is a website set up to provide "news" from a very liberal point of view (apparently there weren't enough of those.) It is unintentionally funny on a regular basis because the people who work there seem not to know anything about actual American history. Today, Vox came out with a big "scoop" that in 1934, the NRA came out with a strong position in favor of limiting guns. Imagine that. For all these years the National Rifle Association has been the principal group fighting limitations on gun ownership and Vox found out that 81 years ago, they had the contrary point of view. Now Vox can call the NRA out for flip flopping (even after 81 years.)
The problem, of course, is that the story is completely wrong. The NRA for which Vox found a statement was an organization set up under president Roosevelt called the National Recovery Administration or the NRA. It has nothing to do with today's NRA. So an ultra liberal New Deal agency that was ultimately found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court was anti-gun. Surprise!
The funniest thing about the Vox mistake is that when they got called on it, they wouldn't admit their error. Instead, they just took down all reference to it and pretended it didn't happen.
Maybe if liberals learned American history instead of just criticizing it (no matter what it is), they would know about the NRA of the 1930s.
The problem, of course, is that the story is completely wrong. The NRA for which Vox found a statement was an organization set up under president Roosevelt called the National Recovery Administration or the NRA. It has nothing to do with today's NRA. So an ultra liberal New Deal agency that was ultimately found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court was anti-gun. Surprise!
The funniest thing about the Vox mistake is that when they got called on it, they wouldn't admit their error. Instead, they just took down all reference to it and pretended it didn't happen.
Maybe if liberals learned American history instead of just criticizing it (no matter what it is), they would know about the NRA of the 1930s.
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