I've been blacklisted

... voluntarily, that is.

Did you hear about the NRA blacklist?

It's a 19-page list of organizations, entertainers, and other public figures who have in some way offended the NRA. As NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre said, "Our members don't want to buy their songs, don't want to go to their movies, don't want to support their careers."

Here's the good part:

Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA's shadowy 19-page list of U.S. companies, celebrities, and news organizations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included.

"As a supporter of comprehensive anti-gun safety measures, I was deeply disappointed when I discovered my name was not on the list," Hoffman wrote in a letter to the NRA that was released on Tuesday.

"I was particularly surprised by the omission given my opposition to the loophole that makes it legal for 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns at gun shows," he added.

Hoffman's name has now been added to the list which reads like a Who's Who of American business, culture and religion and which ranges from the American Jewish Congress to A&M Records, ABC News and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.

Now there's a site for you to add your name to the blacklist and join the distinguished group of people the NRA will no longer patronize.

Oh, and a note to answer some of the e-mail I will surely get. I do in fact support the second amendment to the constitution, and the rest of the bill of rights. However, it is a source of constant amazement to me that the NRA, for all their excitement over the text of that amendment, seem to never read the second and third words of that text:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

I'm not for banning all private ownership of guns. I am for making sure that their sale, use, and ownership is... that's right, "well regulated".