Five Things To Know About The NRA's New President Jim Porter

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Here's what the media should know about Porter, a conspiracy theorist who calls the Civil War the "War of Northern Aggression" and represents more of the same for the organization:

1. Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss. Don't expect Porter to be a breath of fresh air bringing with him a new way of doing things. As is traditional, Porter will come to the presidency following two years as first vice president and two years as second vice president of the organization. He has also been the head of the NRA's legal affairs committee and a trustee of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. Porter's father was the NRA's president from 1959 to 1961 and chaired the 1977 annual meeting at which hardliners took over the organization and began transforming it into the no-compromise lobbying powerhouse the group remains today.

2. Porter Believes "Un-American" Eric Holder And Hillary Clinton Tried To "Kill The Second Amendment At The United Nations." Porter said during a June 2012 speech at the New York Rifle & Pistol Association's Annual Meeting that Attorney General Eric Holder, who he termed "rabidly un-American," was "trying to kill the Second Amendment at the United Nations" with the help of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He attributed this to the proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which he claimed would "make it illegal for individuals all over the world to own firearms." This is a blatant misrepresentation of the treaty, which deals with the international arms trade, not private ownership.

3. Porter Calls The Civil War The "War Of Northern Aggression". Explaining the NRA's roots during the same June 2012 speech, Porter said, "NRA was started 1871 right here in New York state. It was started by some Yankee generals who didn't like the way my Southern boys had the ability to shoot in what we call the 'War of Northern Aggression.' Now y'all might call it the Civil War, but we call it the 'War of Northern Aggression' down south."

4. Porter Thinks President Obama Wants European-Style Socialism. In a February 2011 interview with NRA News, Porter said: "I think everybody had a wake-up call after the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, and I think they had a huge shock when President Obama was elected in 2008. Most folks never would believe that there would be a run on our rights, our individual rights like there's been in this country. And people are so concerned that where this government wants to take us is to a European socialistic, bureaucratic type of government. And it's been a wake-up call."

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/02/five-things-to-know-about-the-nras-new-presiden/193875

[senseandsensibility]

1. Well, at least he's handsome.

[RC]

2. Another reality challenged T-Party crazy.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Someone, sometime, must have told him to grow a pear.

And he turned into one.

[Thinkingabout]

4. One can see the NRA elects their most intelligent. No wondet Wayne LaPierre stated

Outrageous things like putting armed guards into every school. He must be reacting to dumb officers elected in NRA. This would be enough reason for me to withdraw membership from a group who elects irrational officers. Dumb is not a good description of their president. As proven further for their convention they only want dumb crazy speakers, nothing education in this bunch. Reasonable and sensible, no way.

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5. what are those flags? ain't the good ole u.s.a.

right one must be an nra flag

from wayne:

LaPierre: NRA, members will never surrender guns

HOUSTON -- The public face of the National Rifle Association implored members Saturday to never give up their weapons in the wake of recent gun control efforts in Congress that he said will "destroy us and every ounce of our freedom."

"We will never surrender our guns, never," Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told several thousand people during the organization's annual member meeting, which is part of the yearly NRA convention being held this weekend in Houston.

A defiant LaPierre said the "political and media elites" have tried to use December's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and other recent ones "to blame us, to shame us, to compromise our freedom for their agenda."

LaPierre directed much of his criticism at President Barack Obama and his efforts to pass legislation in Congress that would have expanded background checks for gun sales. That bill failed to pass in the Senate last month.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/03/5392975/nra-official-culture-war-more.html#storylink=cpy

[GeorgeGist]

6. Massive heart attack.

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7. Seven - he's on his way to a stroke

Hope he doesn't fall on his weapon of choice