Shawn, your comment system is broken so I’ll reply here:

US law says that the government cannot legislate away the right of Americans to own guns.  Thus even as an anti-gun advocate like myself I can’t in good faith argue that the congress should pass laws which restrict those rights — this is just as fundamentally wrong as violating any of the other legal rights granted to Americans in the constitution and amdendments.

Of course, I would wholeheartedly endorse an amendment to reverse the 2nd… ;-)  But until that happens, the NRA are right to remind people that they have the right to own firearms, just as the ACLU is right to remind people they have the other rights the government might prefer to subtract from citizens.