I saw the new NRA commercial today and it scared the crap out of me

[jodymarie aimee]

Watch this.....my eyes bugged out of my head. These people are obscene crazy killers. And Cheeto's 27% take this as gospel.

The NRA has released a new commercial featuring NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch as part of its nationally noted “Freedom’s Safest Place” campaign.

Titled “The Violence Of Lies”, Loesch’s commentary says that the left “use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and awards shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the ‘resistance.’”

According to Loesch, the only way to save our country and our freedom from their lies is to fight the violence with the “clenched fist of truth.”

https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2017/4/7/dana-loesch-take-shots-at-biased-media-in-new-nra-ad/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yep, NRA is calling for civil war.

[StarryNite]

28. NRA memberships are down...

So are gun sales. They have to create a "cause" to get memberships and gun sales back up. It's all about the money. They don't care how many people die as long as they're making money.

[lunasun]

2. Sounds like 'they' is the enemy . The ' they' is the US and the ad wants to fight the enemy

NRA wants to help them fight us
What kind of tv shows would a commercial like this play on?
Hmm not interested in freedom of speech or public education or the media
Oh and of course as necessary , OBAMA !

[MichMary]

6. I guess I would question

which side is actually for limiting free speech . . .

But, yeah. That is one scary ad.

[Skittles]

3. the NRA represents paranoid, gun humping COWARDS

their primary motivation is FEAR

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Wow. Anything to sell guns. They want us to shoot our neighbors.

This is incitement. FCC must stop the NRA.

[BigOleDummy]

22. Agreed!

" The clinched fist of Freedom"? Lol, it would be funnier if they weren't so serious. I remember back sometime in the late 60's , early 70's (sorry .... can't remember exactly , long time ago) having a FULL unopened bottle of Budweiser thrown at me by some rednecks as they passed me walking down the side of the road. Missed my head by inches! Would have hurt me seriously or killed me if I'd been hit, FU@king hippy was what I heard them scream at me. I'm just thankful they didn't have a gun that day. I can only imagine what those same buttheads would do now if they had been whipped up by an ad like this.

The wingnuts have been promoting violence against anyone who disagrees with them for awhile now, but this is just over the top. What's it gonna take?

[The Wielding Truth]

35. So glad you are here to tell the tale. What is wrong with these fools?

[kimbutgar]

5. Be careful on this

The gun lovers on DU won't like your comments.

[hack89]

24. We are Democrats. Why would his comments bother us?

The RW is fucking crazy - that is a given.

[crazycatlady]

7. can't they just shoot each other?

[moondust]

8. Related: Iowa governor signed stand-your-ground law today.

"Gun owners will be able to keep firearms at their side while visiting the Iowa Capitol under a bill Gov. Terry Branstad's signed Thursday (flanked by children)."

http://www.kcci.com/article/branstad-signs-stand-your-ground-gun-bill/9271537

Lunatics, Inc.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

9. They are foul scum.

[Hekate]

10. They drag Obama into this?

I guess I still need to pray for the safety of the Obamas and Bidens.....

[GWC58]

29. And I would also have to say

the Clintons, all three of them. Maybe even the grandkids and SIL.

[MuseRider]

11. Well, I guess

this just scared the crap out of me too. That is pretty definitive isn't it?

Resist. NGU. They cannot have this country, we have to learn to share it and there is no place for that kind of attitude when it comes to sharing.

She looked mad enough to have a stroke. Perhaps all we need do is taunt them into stroking out.

Not to make light of this, it really scared the crap out of me.

[n2doc]

12. More like the clenched anus of shit

[oasis]

26. Deplorables by the bushels.

[Dawson Leery]

13. Jihad are not the only nuts around.

[retrowire]

14. All this hate towards us because we just want everyone to get a piece of the pie.

Damn.

[Dawson Leery]

36. Correct.

[PatrickforO]

15. The 'clenched fist of truth????'

Too bad we can't trust our police any more to keep these whack jobs in check.

[world wide wally]

16. Paid for by V. Putin

[Initech]

17. The NRA can go fuck themselves!

[TNNurse]

18. I have not moved,

but I wish I still lived in the United States of America. That woman is describing a country that exists in some very sick minds. I wonder if they thought that was an Easter message.

[Stonepounder]

19. Back in the 60's it was 'Kill a Commie for Christ'

now its 'Kill a liburl fer Donnie'

[zentrum]

20. Scary as hell.

This is why Ossoff may lose in Georgia.

[OldRedneck]

21. Someone needs to remind the NRA . . .

. . . that rightwing gunnuts are not the only people who own and know how to use firearms.

[LAGC]

23. No shit. What in the hell happened to the NRA?

Not that long ago they were a nonpartisan advocacy group for sportsman's rights.

Seems like over the past few decades they've really jumped the shark.

Any more, just another ancillary arm of the GOP it would seem...

[hack89]

27. The 1994 Federal AWB

The lesson they took away from it is that gun rights had to be defended at the state level. Since the Democratic Party supported the AWB that left the Republican Party to ally with. If the Dems weren't so anti-gun things might have been different.

[Hoyt]

31. They became a white wing racist organization with leadership like Teddy Nugent and GOPers because

the racist membership voted them in. The NRA epitomizes the majority of gun fanciers in this country.

[StarryNite]

25. Shortly before the 2016 election I get this phone call...

A guy representing the NRA asks to speak to me by name. He said, “This is the National Rifle Association with a recording from Wayne LaPierre followed by a one question survey, would I listen. I said, sure, go ahead. So I listened to the recorded spiel about how Obama wants to take our gun rights away on his way out of office. That Hillary wants to get in behind him and further take away our gun rights. The liberals don’t want us to keep our gun rights. The NRA has no free air time on TV. yadda, yadda, yadda. When the recording was over the man calling got back on the phone and in his deep, loud, confident voice asked something to the effect of whether I want to keep my gun rights. I said of course I do. So he goes into the real purpose of the call and that was to separate me from my money. He said a normal 5 year membership is $200.00 but today I could get it for a special charge of $125.00 or $150.00, I don’t remember but at a reduced rate. So I said I would like to ask him a question. Silence on his end. So I proceeded to ask him, “What is Obama doing to take away our gun rights?” The man’s voice on the phone completely changed from a deep, strong, confident voice to literally muffled, stuttering, and mumbling. He sounded like Milton from the movie “Office Space". I waited and he finally said in his less than previously strong voice that he’s sorry but he’s not allowed to give his opinion. I told him, I don’t want your opinion, I want facts. He mumbled, “I’m sorry, I’m not at liberty to say." I said I want to know what is Obama doing to take our gun rights away? He mumbled some more and apologized and said again that he’s not at liberty to say. I spoke again telling him that the NRA is saying they don’t have free air time on TV but I said I am giving him free time right now to tell me. Another “I’m sorry, I’m not at liberty to say.” I said you called me to ask me to join yet you cannot answer any questions? I said, this is creepy. Then I said, have a good day, goodbye.
What I should also have said was, so the NRA is trying to protect the 2nd Amendment while taking away your 1st Amendment right to free speech by telling you, you are not allowed to voice your opinion? And then I should have said, I don’t want your opinion, I want the facts.

It's all about the money. Fear is a great way to manipulate ignorant people into selling memberships, guns, and everything that goes along with the guns.

[GWC58]

32. Wow! I received the same call.

I hung up!

[StarryNite]

33. I had to play with him first. LOL

[napi21]

30. That was a good answer. I MAY try that the next time the NRA calls here. I usually ask, Who's

calling and when they say they represent the NRA I shout some obscenity and hang up. I like your approach better. Thanks

[StarryNite]

34. Obscenities are good. LOL

The idiot was clearly reading from a script and had no clue as to what is going on. The funniest part was how his tone of voice changed. LOL

[erpowers]

37. No Fear Just Eye Roll

The ad did not scare me it just seemed foolish. I guess it will appeal to their base, but it may not bring anyone into the group. I think it would have been a much better ad if it had just talked about guns and gun owners. It would have been more effective if they had tried to paint gun owners as nice, good, hardworking individuals who wanted guns to protect their homes, to hunt, and to engage in gun sports. The ad seemed like a turn off due to its over-the-top nature.

Maybe I am not reading between the lines enough, but the ad did not talk about the value of gun ownership. So, I guess if I read between the lines and listen to the dog whistle Dana Loesch is saying people need guns and the NRA because there are horrible thugs (mainly black people) who want to hurt them and the sissy liberals will do nothing to stop the bad people. However, the ad seemed stupid and melodramatic.

[spanone]

38. what a nasty lady with a nasty message. FUCK THE NRA. nothing but a political arm of gop

and they believe the liar in chief.

and President Obama never touched ONE of their fucking guns.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. These are the same people who think all pot smokers belong in prison

But heaven forfend anyone pass a law restricting even in the slightestanything regarding the guns they can buy, because "freedom"