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That's right. He just compared gun-control activism to Jim Crow and equated the NRA to the NAACP."They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing."
They've already transformed from the gun manufacturers' lobby to something more radical and more sinister. Even a glance at "NRA TV" shows how far they've lent their name and propaganda to issues with no connection to gun rights.
John Oliver’s piece on NRA TV from earlier this season is eye opening and totally worth a look in case you missed it. That organization is downright scary.Holman wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 9:18 amThey've already transformed from the gun manufacturers' lobby to something more radical and more sinister. Even a glance at "NRA TV" shows how far they've lent their name and propaganda to issues with no connection to gun rights.
They're still a few steps shy of declaring themselves a full-blown right-wing militia group, but that's where they're headed.
Just look at all "their" failures listed below or here https://qz.com/1214418/the-fbi-broward- ... -shooting/
I'm assuming this is entirely sarcastic, since nothing he posted has a single thing to do with the NRA.
Despite having him on Ignore, I was almost going to read his reply.
Ah, that is where you are wrong my friend. I can definitively prove that the NRA is not awful with compelling evidence that tomatoes are a fruit.
NRA logic is that gun control can't 100% prevent 100% of gun crimes; therefore all limitations on guns are worthless.YellowKing wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 8:45 am There doesn't have to be a single point of failure. If Cruz had been unable to purchase the guns in the first place, you stop this, or at least stall it significantly earlier in the timeline.
My point is that of all the "groups" out there that have anything to do with crazy people shooting other people it's the least guilty group that is targeted. Shooters aren't NRA members. People committing gun crimes are much more likely to be democrats than NRA members. Why doesn't the democratic party police their own? Maybe to vote/be democrat you should give up your firearms and armed bodyguards. If you asked the NRA membership if they were ok with democrats giving up their guns I think you'd get an affirmative answer. I'm an NRA life member, I'm fine with democrats turning in their arms. Please do it for the children. We'll put an "R" and a "D" on our driver's licenses, if you have a "D" gun shops have to turn you away. Fine by me. If you can't back that idea, maybe you're the horrible one.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/0 ... filiation/
According to my calculations, about 68% of all firearm murders in 2014 were committed by Democrats. Only 32% of all firearms murders in 2014 were committed by Republicans.
This leads to three very important conclusions:
-Republicans aren’t to blame for the number of firearm murders, as the Democrats try to claim
-If Democrats stopped shooting people, we could reduce our firearm related murders by almost 70%
-Guns aren’t the problem, Democrats are.
"Most of the school shooters are children who wouldn’t know a conservative from a communist," said Jack Levin, Northeastern professor and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict. "The idea of associating politics with these mass murders is absurd. It has absolutely nothing to do with it."
Ideology alone isn’t a significant risk factor for violence. “There’s a much stronger factor of individual personality traits that predispose people to be more aggressive in their everyday lives,” Kalmoe says, “and we see that playing out with people who engage in political violence.” Mass shooters are often found to have had histories of domestic violence, and that was true for James Hodgkinson, the shooter who attacked the congressional baseball practice in Virginia. Kalmoe says, “we often see that violent individuals have a history of violence in their personal lives. People who are abusive, or who have run afoul of the law in other ways, are more likely to endorse violence.”
The idea that an American high school student wouldn't know a communist from a conservative is truly frightening.Most of the school shooters are children who wouldn’t know a conservative from a communist
I guess that same student is well versed on the 63 different genders he/she/it/whatever can be, including a door knob. As in "dumb as a door knob". 
Are we talking about Ted Cruz’s father and the fact that he assassinated JFK?YellowKing wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 8:45 am There doesn't have to be a single point of failure. If Cruz had been unable to purchase the guns in the first place, you stop this, or at least stall it significantly earlier in the timeline.
Interesting that an ill-founded BATF raid led to them becoming more adversarial to gun control laws.LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 4:44 pm Speaking of the Black Panthers, I need to learn more about the NRA
http://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/
The NRA as described pre-1971 is something I am wholly unaware of.