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The National Rifle Association is on fire. We cant look away. ahh, schadenfreude
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-oliver-north-gun-wayne-lapierre_n_5cc85f4ae4b02791823f736d
A Lack Of Fear Leads To A Lack Of Money
In the immediate aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead, the NRAs then-president, Wayne LaPierre, blamed violent video games for the shooting and had the gall to suggest that more guns in school would have stopped the shooter.
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Framing Obama as an existential threat to gun rights worked for the NRA. Gun advocates who feared Obama was actively trying to disarm them gave the group enough money to spend more than $400 million to get President Donald Trump elected in 2016 as much as the NRA had spent in every prior election combined going back to 1992, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
But with Trump elected, there wasnt the same manufactured fear for the NRA to exploit. As Vox pointed out, the group became a victim of its own success: In 2017, it reported a loss of $55 million in income as membership plummeted.
There is quite a bit more worth reading at the link above (including more detail on the devastating embarrassment to Oliver North after his failed "coup" )
It cant happen fast enough!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,795 posts)doc03
(35,454 posts)genxlib
(5,547 posts)Their finances will improve when they have a new scary democrat to point at. They will start the drumbeat all over again and people will throw their money at them.
Let's just hope they will be so chaotic that they will be less effective. And hopefully, their message is finally getting old.
hlthe2b
(102,569 posts)tanyev
(42,678 posts)madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)moonscape
(4,676 posts)of 45 and his enablers, just ... write a check?
dchill
(38,627 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)...but is nonetheless welcome!
Has anyone else noticed a distinct decline in the number of cars, trucks, SUVs with proud member window stickers?
Granted, Im in an urban area, and dont get/have to venture into the bordering Deep South hinterlands (thankfully), but still wonder if a growing number of their members havent been taking razors to their rear windows.
hlthe2b
(102,569 posts)shootings, the Thornton Walmart shooting (two years ago), the CO Springs abortion clinic shooting, Colorado New Life Church organization shootings, and 2006 Platte County High School Hostage event--and these are just the bigger and most recent Colorado-based incidents-- one might think Coloradoans would be ashamed to display an NRA sticker.
While I think gun control efforts have certainly increased, the remaining support for NRA and extremist views on guns are still out there. Whether the public support by individuals has decreased or not, I''m really not sure. It is jarring to see them, but they are out there.
Gabby Gifford shooting and those people who died.
And all the other shootings where people have been injured and died.
hlthe2b
(102,569 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Anyone got some kerosene?
TNNurse
(6,933 posts)If you are too corrupt for him...
llmart
(15,569 posts)And as someone else posted, I want to see LaPierre frogmarched off to prison.
patphil
(6,259 posts)NRA = Not Really American.
I support gun ownership, but they are just over the top ridiculous in their need to have military weapons.
Patrick Phillips
Martin Eden
(12,887 posts)Whether or not the NRA crashes & burns, millions of gun "enthusiasts" will continue to vote on that issue first and foremost. Some other organization will fill the void for the gun lobby.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)all those gun humpers can go to hell
Kablooie
(18,648 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,389 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)with this vile, contemptible group.
You will not be missed.
cp
(6,680 posts)And take tiny-dick twit Wayne LaP down, too. Really all of them. Good riddance.
IronLionZion
(45,672 posts)because they're painting any Dem anywhere as coming to get your guns. Just like Obama came and took away everyone's guns and then we had all sorts of oppression from our own government, like Nazis appointed to develop child detention camp policies and police shooting unarmed civilians...oh wait.
It's time for the NRA to go away.
Gun safety education and sportsmen's groups exist.