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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPublicly 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.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Sandy Hook children. They won't back down.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Has not happened yet, but the threat is there. A lot of gun nuts are vicious and nuts.
pwb
(11,272 posts)Fuck them.
mitch96
(13,904 posts)Easy way to drive a wedge between Americans... Putin will then say "See! democracy does not work!!!
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uponit7771
(90,339 posts)crazylikafox
(2,756 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)they make it worse, of course, but some of those threats are real, and they're coming from Americans.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)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.