Good. The modern NRA has been the worst thing for guns rights in years. Wayne LaPierre can rot in hell.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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It'd be one thing if they were only opposed by people for more gun control, but they aren't even really good at their core mission. All they do is simp for the GOP, even when doing so runs counter to their stated agenda.
all they do is ~~simp~~ launder money to the GOP for the Russians.
Fixed it for ya.
JFC, really? I'm not up on the latest NRA lore but that sounds too bad to be true.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44885633.amp
This article is a bit old, after it was written Butina went back to Russia and is now a member of theit legislature.
I keep reading and it keeps getting worse. HOW?
HOW?
well, citizens united mostly, but also because the GOP knows no shame, even dead children and collaborating with the russians.
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The NRA is a marketing team for gun manufacturers, and what sells guns is fear of gun bans. The NRA does everything in their power to fuel those fears.
Pro and anti gun alike hate them. It's mostly just boomers keeping them going.
They aren't a gun rights organization. They aren't even a manufacturer's organization. They are Republican shills, first, last, and always.
I was finally convinced they had abandoned gun owners when they endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012. When a gun rights organization openly endorses the signer of a gun ban, there is something deeply wrong.
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That sudden ray of light is Huey P smiling.
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They've even wormed their way into schools. They have "Eddie the Eagle" that teaches elementary school kids gun safety. With NRA logos all over the place, of course. I was disgusted when my daughter brought the information home.
Absolutely kids should be taught gun safety. They just shouldn't get it with a heaping helping of NRA.
Gun safety was one of their original missions and where quite successful at it before they turned into a fear mongering lobbying group.
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It can't die fast enough.
If only there were a quick and effective means of killing something.
Sadly, those are only to be used on kindergartners.
If conservatives were susceptible to irony they’d have all been gunned down by now
Hmmm, did the spigot of Russian money flowing into their coffers dry up?
That’s the real answer. “We’re no longer a foreign asset funnelling Russian money to republicans so we’re broke”
Yep if you look at all stuff across the world, the dirty money is drying up. The game is catching up
I guess that whole war with Ukraine thing has some side effects!
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Can I help? How can I help speed this up?
But the damage it has done to the political landscape by pushing right wing agendas, fearmongering of every sort to get people to buy guns, and tying identity to gun ownership will live on far beyond the useful life of the NRA.
The organization may be dead but the propaganda they created lives on in the heart of every gun owner.
Good news: NRA (maybe, hopefully) dying.
Absolutely horrible news: The void being filled by even more extreme and harmful groups within the same overall ideology, Islamic State style.
A dozen other groups have far less power than one huge lobbying organization.
Not when they're working together and have taken over most of the billionaire donors
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Can they speed it up a bit?
Do something to put it out of its misery, perhaps?
Maybe it should hurry the fuck up.
Good, even if you are supportive of gun rights there has to be a better option than contributing to a Russian fascist propaganda outlet.
The lack of Russian money probably helped here, too. Good riddance.
Yo how can we speed shit up? Fuck the nra, fuck russia, fuck the republican traitor filth.
... and nothing of value was lost.
I'm sure Daddy Putin will have a replacement ready in no time.
Too slowly, unfortunately
If ever an organisation needed a bullet...
Meh. The "gun groups" of the future are discord servers about 3d printing
That doesn't sound like an organized group with lobbying and government presence. I'm fine with that.
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The NRA had lost a lot of financial backing because when the main thing you endorse is being used to murder schoolchildren on a borderline industrial scale, of course sponsors and advertisers will want nothing to do with it.
They also got busted for money laundering and being a front for foreign oligarchs to fund US politicians... I'm guessing all those rubles drying up hits the bittom line, too.
Why did you put an apostrophe in rights
Ask the writer, since the blurb was auto-pulled from it.
Because they are the gun right. You know, like alt-right, Christian right, gun right.
Pity the number of victims of gun violence continues to rise, rather quickly.
Oh shit! I saw the gold and purple and the old white man and misread the title as NBA! How did I not see the guns?!
Also fuck the NRA for fucking ever! I wish we could start prying some guns from some of those cold dead hands already. Die.
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