A Well Regulated Militia Indeed

I've never been a big fan of PETA. I'm against animal cruelty and all, but I just have this tendency to hunt down and mock righteous indignation wherever I find it. You know how a shark can smell blood in the water from miles away?* I'm like that about moral outrage. I'll be sitting on my couch, watching TV, and something in my brain starts to tingle. Then- "Hey! Somebody somewhere is working themselves into a right moral bluster! I better go make fun of them!". I'm not sure that this reflects all that well on my personality, but whatever.

So, I lump animal rights activists in the same category as Young Earth Creationists and Free Republic posters. Kooky extremists, useful for the occasional joke. But now, someone has leaked an NRA graphic novel-brochure thingy**, that details the most dangerous groups to American Second Amendment rights. One of those groups is:



Now wait a minute. Are they telling me that PETA has not only taught owls to carry dynamite, but has also managed to employ lobsters, chickens and hippy chicks as effective soldiers in the war against gun ownership? And wolves? They've got trained wolves in their animal liberation army? I'm torn. I do like guns, but dynamite-packing owls are pretty damn cool. I guess it's time to send a check to PETA.

*Or maybe that's an urban myth. I don't know much about sharks.
** Here's the whole pdf: Freedom in Peril. It is quite interesting and informative