We need to start strategizing this. HOW DO WE DEFANG/DECLAW/DEFUND the NRA????

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41. Welcome to DU, 3c273a!

Glad you're here! I think we have to push it straight into their faces. Confront them and put them on the spot. Force them to answer or run like the little armchair chickenshits they are - out the side door while the cameras are still rolling. Make 'em face the questions - WHO'S YER DADDY? Who's paying you? Who do you REALLY work for? The people, or the NRA? Who's offered you a lobbying job as soon as you leave Capitol Hill? Whose side are you on? The gun lobby or the bodies of our five-year-olds and six-year-olds?

We have to think of all kinds of sabotage techniques. Things that will make them look bad in public. Covering their refusal to meet with grieving gun-victims' families. Plastering the pablum they puke like fucking reagan did after John Lennon was shot and killed - the "gee, yes it's a terrible shame BUT Lord Knows we CAN'T give up our GUNS!!!!" Maybe if they're faced with uncomfortable situations that they weasel out of, we splatter that all over the internets and wherever else we can - to make them look bad and cold-hearted and cruel. Make 'em have to WEAR this shit around their frickin' necks. "Oh, so you cared more about the NRA than keeping guns away from nutcases who mow our children down in their schools." Put pointed questions to them that they duck and run from - while the cameras are rolling.

I would try to think up as many different ways of laminating this shit to them, making them look bad ANY WAY WE CAN, make them shrivel and cringe and run. Make what they sidle up to so loyally - a thing of horrible awfulness. A thing so hideous they can't afford to be seen or heard sidling up to it anymore.

The bad guys made the word "liberal" something that most people came to abhor, something negative, something to be shunned and shrunk away from with curled lip and facial features that said "ICK!!!" WE NEED TO DO THAT WITH THE NRA AND THE GUN MANUFACTURERS AND THE GUN LOBBY. Make THEM what people shrink away from and disavow and don't want to be seen with anymore. We have to demonize and vilify them AND what they still stupidly and stubbornly stand for. We have to make sure all of that, and all of them, are rubbed in sticky, clingy shit. They did it to us. I say we return the favor - in spades. It's all of our lives and our safety that are at stake - and that of our beloved children. I saw something on Lawrence O'Donnell's show tonight that said SINCE December 14th when the Newtown CT gun-massacre happened, more than 400 more shooting deaths have occurred. FOUR HUNDRED. In what? THREE WEEKS?????????? Feelin' any safer, America????

As much as I hate using the slaughter - the GUN-slaughter of those 20 sweet innocent children - for political ends, if it will help bring this madness closer to an end, OR AT LEAST SLOW IT DOWN, then maybe those lost little ones won't have died in vain. I have never heard ANY grieving parents after this kind of tragedy who did NOT say the least they could do from here - was to try to make sure no other parent suffered a loss like this, and cried like this, and sobbed like this, and stopped eating and sleeping peacefully like this, and tossed and turned and had nightmares like this, and even wanted briefly to die, themselves, like this, because the horror and sadness and agony were all just too much to bear. THIS. JUST. SIMPLY. HAS. TO. END.