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Hoyt

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12. They are responsible for the tenor of the organization, unless you prefer Wayne LaPierre.

Reply to Straw Man (Reply #11)

Thu Mar 29, 2018, 12:34 AM

Mar 2018

Last edited Thu Mar 29, 2018, 08:24 AM - Edit history (1)

They have a lot to do with the programs, which are nothing but outreach for their white wing agenda. Hell, I could pull innocent sounding stuff out of a Klan manifesto like you did with NRA propaganda.

You obviously find guns so important to your life that you have no problem apologizing for the NRA. I don’t.

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Shame on the NRA for ignoring gun safety [View all] Ohioboy Mar 2018 OP

You have answered your own post Sherman A1 Mar 2018 #1

I know Ohioboy Mar 2018 #2

They have a so-called safety course for kids, but its primarily to indoctrinate them Hoyt Mar 2018 #3

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You are a gun promoter and look at the NRAs propaganda differently from me. Hoyt Mar 2018 #5

Post removed Post removed Mar 2018 #9

Quite ironically sarisataka Mar 2018 #10

Oh really? Straw Man Mar 2018 #6

You too promote guns and apparently buy into their junk on guns. Hoyt Mar 2018 #7

Here's the thing, Hoyt. Straw Man Mar 2018 #11

They are responsible for the tenor of the organization, unless you prefer Wayne LaPierre. Hoyt Mar 2018 #12

The POLITICAL tenor, which has nothing to do with their training programs. Straw Man Mar 2018 #14

Who do you think you are kidding? Do you really the NRA gun training for kids is designed to teach Hoyt Mar 2018 #15

The programs are designed to teach kids and others about gun safety. Straw Man Mar 2018 #16

IOW, you want the "abstinence-only"/D.A.R.E. approach. What makes you think it would work? friendly_iconoclast Mar 2018 #18

So if they didn't have AR-15s, they wouldn't have perform the mass shootings? krispos42 Mar 2018 #8

There is no 100% solution, but 20% short term is better than simply coddling gunners, Hoyt Mar 2018 #13

Better that than selling them off and pretending you've washed your hands of them... friendly_iconoclast Mar 2018 #19

It's like beer and whiskey... Ohioboy Mar 2018 #17