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In reply to the discussion: Do you believe that a majority of NRA members are not the enemy? [View all]Celerity
(46,612 posts)37. At a recent rally, one Trump supporter said his rifle "speaks louder than any stupid dictionary."
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 Dont 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 wont go away
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/01/nra-russia-investigations-gun-lobby
a poster on another thread said
yeah, right, lol
An attendee inspects a rifle during the NRA annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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 Dont 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 wont 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
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Any organization whose members elect a Board of Directors with people like this, is the enemy:
Hoyt
Jun 2019
#1
Because gunners helped elect likes of trump, they like his hateful rhetoric, racism, gun-love, etc.
Hoyt
Jul 2019
#40
"Politically incorrect"? One look at the NRA board members should make one recoil (heh)
VOX
Aug 2019
#51
The NRA is little more than a PR mechanism for the gun manufacturing industry.
LanternWaste
Jul 2019
#19
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
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
If this was in GD, and it wasn't primary season, the results would be a lot different.
demmiblue
Jul 2019
#31