On December 22, the website Wonkette exposed a booklet prepared by the National Rifle Association (NRA), entitled Freedom in Peril: Guarding the 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century. The booklet, with several large -- almost comical -- illustrations, warns, "Second Amendment freedom today stands naked in the path of a marching axis of adversaries far darker and more dangerous than gun owners have ever known. Acting alone and in shadowy coalitions, these enemies of freedom are preparing for a profound and foreboding confrontation...We'd better be ready."