NRA's video message to 'elites': 'We're coming for you'

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By LISA MARIE PANE
Today

ATLANTA (AP) — The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made — and the political powerhouse is resorting to language that some believe could incite violence.

Using the hashtags #counterresistance and #clenchedfistoftruth, the NRA has put out a series of videos that announce a “shot across the bow,” and say the gun-rights group is “coming for you” and that “elites ... threaten our very survival,” terms that suggest opponents are enemy combatants.

“The times are burning and the media elites have been caught holding the match,” NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch says in one video aired on NRATV, the gun lobby’s web video site, as it shows footage of people fighting police, breaking storefront glass and burning the American flag.

Later, she specifically calls out The New York Times: “We’ve had it with your narratives, your propaganda, your fake news. We’ve had it with your constant protection of your Democrat overlords, your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life. And we’ve had it with your tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth or fact-based journalism,” Loesch says. “Consider this the shot across your proverbial bow. ... In short? We’re coming for you.”




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[Judi Lynn]

1. "In short, we're coming for you." Really? Wouldn't this be considered a death threat? n/t

[lastlib]

10. A terrorist threat by a terrorist organization.

A criminal conspiracy by a racketeering front group. They need to be shut down now!

[trc]

23. Truth right here. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Not in America. We dont have laws anymore, values, etc.

For real, we dont.

[diverdownjt]

41. yes we do....

the 1/3 on the right are choosing not to obey them anymore.

[Dustlawyer]

39. Gun and ammo sales are down because gun nuts stocked up during the Obama years.

This is just a ploy to sell more guns and ammo.

[Betty88]

2. Well by the time they are coming for me

I should have my new gun

Bring it

[SonofDonald]

16. After I quit hunting 20 years ago

I didn't sell my guns, I haven't fired one in 20 years but they are ready to go, I thought of the possibility that one may end up in the hands of someone who would use it on another human being so I kept them.

I'm their worst nightmare, a liberal that owns guns and knows how to use them.

I have thought of joining the nra in past but it was obvious they were a little to gun-ho for me.

Now they have proven they're flat out whacko nutjobs, the dangerous ideology has Risen to the top and as far as I'm concerned they are the enemy.

[Betty88]

31. We are moving to the country part time

In Brooklyn I don't feel the need for a gun but there is something about being out in the woods that makes me feel that I should have at least one and know how to use it. I really hope I can find a place to learn to shoot where I don't have to listen to NRA crap.

Nothing wrong with having a few guns, responsibly kept and used. Why these people bitch about filling out a few forms and waiting a bit I really can't understand.

[Aristus]

3. How long has it been since they even bothered with the rather ridiculous and fatuous:

"Oh my goodness, no! We're all about gun safety! Hunters! Sportsmen! That kind of thing!" - ?

[HopeAgain]

4. If you belong to the NRA, you are not progressive...

and you are an anathema to the liberal cause. I don't care what excuse anyone gives.

[Oak2004]

44. Actually I have an excellent reason to be an NRA member

I'm a life member who joined years ago, before the NRA became a wholly owned subsidiary of the lunatic right wing... you know, when it actually was about training and safety and the like.

I have thought long and hard about resigning (of course). But then I would no longer receive all the crap I get from them in the mail which would save them a lot of money. By remaining a member for the rest of my days, without paying them another cent, I cost them money that would otherwise be available to make terroristic threat videos and the like.

So, "I'm the NRA". Keep sending me magazines and other mailbox spam, you suckers.

I submit that this is an excellent excuse for continued NRA membership.

[Doug the Dem]

5. This just in: Most Powerful Lobby In Washington Complains About Elites

Bellylaughs at 11.

[nolabels]

6. Two year olds have a higher sense of reasoning

Firearm-psychotics mostly don't even understand the small world they are living in.

[Cold War Spook]

7. The NRA

thinks the 2nd Amendment should be the 1st and only Amendment.

[Bayard]

8. I am reminded of the first Men In Black movie

"You'll can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers."

[Judi Lynn]

15. That's tremendous. Thank you. n/t

[ffr]

9. Dog whistle campaign. They should be held to account for the carnage that is to come.

What innocent public figure gets ambushed first?

[hurple]

11. Isn't it time

To label these guys a terrorist organization?

Or, at least a "hate group"?

SPLC, waiting for you to make your move on this...

[Hekate]

19. If you're calling out the SPLC, you should maybe do some research on them

Given their origins, I don't think they have failed to notice the actions of the NRA

[Mc Mike]

12. They're gonna look awful funny with their guns up their

keisters.

[Archae]

13. There is some kind of NRA show in Milwaukee right now...

The highlight of the show was yesterday, a "fashion show" with models showing concealed carry clothes and accessories.

The NRA wants to sell guns.

And they are doing it in the OP by sowing panic and hatred.

The NRA took a big hit from that shooting of a congressman at a baseball park.
And Trump getting elected eased the "fear and smear" contingents that had Obama "coming for their guns.

So gun sales are slacking off, and they want to sell more.

[dembotoz]

17. yep yep yep....obama gone so still gotta drive gun sales

they make the pharmaceutical industry look honest

[orangecrush]

26. "Accurate" post!

Nyuck! Nyuck!

[SWBTATTReg]

14. a bunch of paranoid nuts

Threating our right to free speech, and threating fellow Americans and neighbors. Really nice. What is the NRA going to do next?

Is the NRA going to ID / Tattoo everyone who's been to college, or finished high school as an elite?

Is the NRA going to ID / Tattoo everyone who's been advocating a living wage, e.g., lots of our fellow DUers and Union workers, as elites?

Is the NRA going to ID/ Tattoo everyone who's for responsible gun ownership (almost all of us vouch for this, including me, a gun owner) as elites?

Democratic overlords? Really??? This is pretty pathetic...NRA, you're reading way way too much science fiction.

NRA, cowards that you are, I am here, waiting...cowards, everyone of you. And I don't need to have guns to feel safe, so stay away, you hypocrites. The power of the pen is mightier than the sword.

[0rganism]

18. i see. so now the idea is to get liberals to arm up too.

the fascists already got their guns, so that market is saturated.

next step? get the liberals scared that our fascist neighbors are planning a pogrom, so we arm up too. then we can stand on opposite sides of the political divide confidently flinging poop and waving our g-peens at each other, while lining arms makers' pockets with dosh.

time to double the money.

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Yes, which is why I want to start a liberal gun manufacturing company.

Sell guns to liberals and give most profits to civil rights organizations.

[LakeArenal]

20. My liberal brother said to an NRA twink...

Nobody is coming for your guns. But I tell you what, if they do, I will stand beside you with my gun to take a stand...

Easy to say because: NOBODY IS COMING FOR ANYONES GUNS...

I hate them so much and I don't use the word hate freely...

[Corgigal]

21. Didn't Trump mention

during that crazy Arizona rally, that they are the elites? Cause he lives in a bigger house, other stupid reasons here.

So, is the NRA threatening the President? I mean fear is their marketing gimmick, but they need to keep up.

[haveahart]

22. So, they will be coming for Trump and ALL his cabinet too?

[Cryptoad]

24. GOP Gun Policy:

An Idiot for Every Gun, a Gun for every Idiot!

[jmbar2]

25. Nominate your favorite elite to be ...ahem...monitored by the NRA

My nomination:

Louise Linzon, Steve Munchkin's trophy wife, handbag expert

[jmowreader]

40. I've always been partial to ...ahem...monitoring Alex Jones

I think he needs a little tender loving care from these fine patriotic citizens.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

27. FUCK the NRA!

[jmowreader]

30. I wonder...

If you were to bring 100 randomly selected NRA members to an Army base and have them fire the qualification exercise with their favorite gun, how many would score high enough to qualify?

[hack89]

33. A bunch.

Who is more likely to be shooting on a regular basis?

[NickB79]

35. Army recruits don't fire that many live rounds in basic

The average NRA member probably fires his weapons more in a week than an Army recruit fires in a year.

[Blue_Adept]

43. Well

[hack89]

32. Good thing there are plenty of gun owning Democrats. Nt

[pecosbob]

34. They should be put on the list of terrorist organizations.

[Skittles]

36. tough words meant for gun humping cowards

[truthisfreedom]

37. Lock 'em up! NRA is desperate because of the *rump slump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/24/gun-sales-decline-trump-controls

[CBHagman]

38. I hadn't heard about the drop in gun sales after January...

...but of course sales go up after mass shootings, which is a sickening thought.

[Doug the Dem]

42. When the Right makes a Threat, it's just "Discussion"

When the Left criticizes Trump, it's "political violence on many sides, many sides."