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Celerity

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37. At a recent rally, one Trump supporter said his rifle "speaks louder than any stupid dictionary."
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 03:24 PM
Jul 2019
https://tinyurl.com/yye7lkag







NRA urges members to support Republican who threatened to kill police-officers.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212214850

The membership is vastly Rethug gun humpers, at least 80% (I say higher). Most all of the decent ones left long ago. They contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to a radical Rethug agenda. The NRA is also a giant Russian money laundering/influence scheme.

Why More Than 90 Percent Of Gun Owners Don’t Join The NRA

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/01/nra-russia-investigations-gun-lobby


The NRA used to be much more bipartisan. Now it's mostly just a wing of the GOP

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/24/politics/nra-partisan-bipartisan-republican/index.html





NRA in crisis: how the gun group became ensnared in the Russia inquiry

The Russia ties of NRA bigwigs are political and legal headaches that won’t go away

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/01/nra-russia-investigations-gun-lobby


a poster on another thread said

many gun owners will agree with him nt
(with Biden)

yeah, right, lol



An attendee inspects a rifle during the NRA annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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Any organization whose members elect a Board of Directors with people like this, is the enemy: Hoyt Jun 2019 #1
Ted Nugent is a piece of shit. Remember this one: demmiblue Jul 2019 #9
And he's a friend of Sean Hannity too. Initech Jul 2019 #48
Perhaps only a small fraction of membership votes, though treestar Jul 2019 #17
So why is a moron like Ted Nugent kicking your ass? hack89 Jul 2019 #39
Because gunners helped elect likes of trump, they like his hateful rhetoric, racism, gun-love, etc. Hoyt Jul 2019 #40
Except for those gun owners that are Democrats hack89 Jul 2019 #41
Yeah, those that are truly Democrats. A lot of Gungeoneers have beef very Hoyt Jul 2019 #42
There is nothing to argue about anymore hack89 Jul 2019 #43
Nothing will change with trump in office, so no need for the inteference Hoyt Jul 2019 #44
Nothing will change with Biden in office either. hack89 Jul 2019 #45
Gunners hope and pray. Hoyt Jul 2019 #46
That has been our reality for a very long time hack89 Jul 2019 #47
Then kids will keep dying. MrsCoffee Aug 2019 #54
Appeal to gun owners if you want, not to members of the NRA. demmiblue Jun 2019 #2
NRA members are more right wing then non-member gun owners Kaleva Jun 2019 #3
That is an eye-opening stat. Politicub Jun 2019 #4
Still that shows that even Democrats are members of the NRA treestar Jul 2019 #16
Would like to see your vote in the poll. Kaleva Jul 2019 #18
Do we really know much about the membership treestar Jul 2019 #20
Well Andy823 Jul 2019 #23
I'm sure there were more of them ten years ago customerserviceguy Jul 2019 #28
"Politically incorrect"? One look at the NRA board members should make one recoil (heh) VOX Aug 2019 #51
Your poll is very telling True Dough Jun 2019 #5
There's Plenty To Despise Here corbettkroehler Jun 2019 #6
A running tally of how supporters and undecideds are voting Kaleva Jun 2019 #7
Kick for the Monday crowd. Kaleva Jul 2019 #8
NRA membership means they drank the kool-aid. They believe Democrats are evil. Paladin Jul 2019 #10
Members who believe in "A well regulated militia" IronLionZion Jul 2019 #11
Fuck the NRA. Voltaire2 Jul 2019 #12
yes, they... myohmy2 Jul 2019 #13
maybe not to most straight white men JI7 Jul 2019 #14
Kick for the Tuesday crowd. Kaleva Jul 2019 #15
The NRA is little more than a PR mechanism for the gun manufacturing industry. LanternWaste Jul 2019 #19
Exactly - get to the root of the problem onetexan Jul 2019 #24
American Citizens are not 'the enemy'. crazytown Jul 2019 #21
Not falling for this bait. This is posted by a Kamala supporter in an attempt to hang Biden onetexan Jul 2019 #22
They should conduct a poll asking whether respondents support court-mandated busing today sop Jul 2019 #26
The conventional wisdom here has been for years that the NRA and its members are the enemy Kaleva Jul 2019 #27
In 2014 I couldn't figure out why people were defending Putin and his actions in Crimea rufus dog Jul 2019 #25
Updated tally of the vote Kaleva Jul 2019 #29
The NRA membership is at around 80% Rethug (I think higher now) and your question asked about Celerity Jul 2019 #35
I thought that the percentage picking the 1st option, not the enemy, would be in the single digits. Kaleva Jul 2019 #36
Kick for the 4th of July crowd. Kaleva Jul 2019 #30
If this was in GD, and it wasn't primary season, the results would be a lot different. demmiblue Jul 2019 #31
Yea, I'm really surprised by how high that percentage is. Kaleva Jul 2019 #33
I feel the same way about them as I do about members of the catholic church. Iggo Jul 2019 #32
At a recent rally, one Trump supporter said his rifle "speaks louder than any stupid dictionary." Celerity Jul 2019 #37
Kick for the, I mean, Friday crowd! Don't know what day of the week this is. Kaleva Jul 2019 #34
lol Celerity Jul 2019 #38
Kick for the Monday crowd. Kaleva Jul 2019 #49
Kick Kaleva Aug 2019 #50
If they were not the enemey they shouldn't be a member. LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #52
Fuck the NRA. MrsCoffee Aug 2019 #53
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