Adolphus Busch IV resigns from NRA

[Recursion]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/04/18/adolphus-busch-iv-nra_n_3112750.html

Adolphus Busch IV, heir to the Busch family brewing fortune, resigned his lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association on Thursday, writing in a letter to NRA President David Keene, "I fail to see how the NRA can disregard the overwhelming will of its members who see background checks as reasonable."

The resignation, first reported by KSDK, came a day after the Senate rejected a series of amendments to a gun control bill, including a bipartisan deal to expand background checks for gun sales. The NRA had vigorously opposed all those measures.

"The NRA I see today has undermined the values upon which it was established," wrote Busch. "Your current strategic focus clearly places priority on the needs of gun and ammunition manufacturers while disregarding the opinions of your 4 million individual members."

As I have said before: gun control isn't my thing, but I'm more than cynical enough to use it to get us the House back.

(And even as a non gun control guy, I think background checks are a good and reasonable policy.)

[SummerSnow]

1. Wondering if this is going to be a domino effect?

[panader0]

2. I'm glad he resigned

but Adolphus Busch IV is not a good man. In the early eighties, while attending the U of Az, he was in a drunken accident in which a girl was killed. He skated on all charges. a few years later, another woman was found dead at his house. He was a very spoiled rich kid and escaped justice more than once because of his family fortune.

[GumboYaYa]

6. That is August Busch IV not Adolphous.

I know Adolphous personally and I can tell you from experience that he is a very decent person and should not be confused with his malcontent spoiled nephew.

[panader0]

9. August Adolphus BuschIV

I stand corrected-the same name, almost.

[4Q2u2]

7. DUI

Ted Kennedy drove drunk and Mary Joe died.
Laura Bush drove drunk and killed her classmate

Neither had any real punishment. There are plenty of ordinary citizens that have killed with their autos and got next to nothing. We are not really serious about DUI murder as we should be. You get more time in jail for using almost any other weapon, but when you turn a car into a weapon, it is not as bad for some reason. They even put a qualifier on it. Vehicular Homicide, but if you were murdered by say a gun it is just plain Homicide. Dead is dead no matter how it came about.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Cheers to Adolphus!

How many Adolphuses do you know?

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4. Gustavus cones to mind

The Protestant champion of the 30 Years War

[GumboYaYa]

5. Adolphous is the best of the bunch in th Busch family.

He puts his money where his mouth is too. He installed a large bank of solar panels that power his farm outside of St. Louis and is a big donor to causes and politicians who are in favor of wetland preservation.

[Erose999]

8. Did he "head for the mountains?"

[KittyWampus]

10. He should take their data base and start an alternate SANE version of the NRA. He's the perfect guy

to do it.

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. Now he can concentrate on killing people with his companys' product...