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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:48 AM Feb 2018

Publicly Going Afer NRA Will Earn You A Sea Of Death Threats & Harassment.

It takes a lot of courage to challenge the NRA and even GOP/Trump publicly or on social media. It will earn you death threats, intimidation, harassment, et al. And you have no idea how many might really be serious.

We can se what happened to the Newton parents openly taking action. So victim's families have to suffer and grieve in silence. Because if they do come out aggressively they put themselves in further danger.

It really is about as bad as it can get.

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Publicly Going Afer NRA Will Earn You A Sea Of Death Threats & Harassment. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 OP
There are some really courageous parents of Ilsa Feb 2018 #1
At Some Point Some Critic Will Die For Their Opposition. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 #2
All from Putins bots. pwb Feb 2018 #3
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking mitch96 Feb 2018 #4
+1000 sinkingfeeling Feb 2018 #5
+1, there's an article of the NRA taking Russian money and giving it to Red Dons campaign uponit7771 Feb 2018 #7
Possibly also to Congress. That's why Ryan & McConnell are complicit. crazylikafox Feb 2018 #8
Not all are Russian bots... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #9
Some, but Alex Jones drove a lot of the Sandy Hook "Truthers" Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2018 #10
Yeah, it's a racket Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #6
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. At Some Point Some Critic Will Die For Their Opposition.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:52 AM
Feb 2018

Has not happened yet, but the threat is there. A lot of gun nuts are vicious and nuts.

mitch96

(13,904 posts)
4. That's EXACTLY what I was thinking
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:58 AM
Feb 2018

Easy way to drive a wedge between Americans... Putin will then say "See! democracy does not work!!!

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Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
9. Not all are Russian bots...
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 10:58 AM
Feb 2018

they make it worse, of course, but some of those threats are real, and they're coming from Americans.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
10. Some, but Alex Jones drove a lot of the Sandy Hook "Truthers"
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 11:00 AM
Feb 2018

Last edited Thu Feb 15, 2018, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)

...because it's easier to accept a vast conspiracy theory than to accept that getting AR-15s out of the hands of commonfolk will solve a problem.

e.t.a: I initially miswrote Alex Smith. My sincere apologies to Washington's new Quarterback.

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