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The NRA is not diminishing at all. It is diminished only in the eyes of the media and those the left opposed to guns. The National Rifle Association, while staying mostly quiet in the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Connecticut, has registered an average of 8,000 new members a day since the tragedy. So at 8,000 per day, a 1 year membership costs $35.00 and at the very minimum, the NRA is adding $280,000 per day to the war chest. That equals $1.96 million per week and $58.8 million in 1 month. That's if IF they keep adding members at this pace and IF each member joins for the minimum 1 year membership. We can also be sure that PLENTY of individuals, organizations, and industries are donating extra money to protect their interests. that means it's pretty safe to say that the NRA will have added to their war chest in the next month somewhere in the neighborhood of $75 million dollars.
Yeah, the NRA most certainly has always bought people in Washington with all their money....their war chest. They have been quite the bully. Their power in Washington is diminishing whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
When I think of the bad things committed by Hitler I think of genocide, concentration camps, invading other countries, when conservatives think of bad things committed by Hitler they mention gun control.
Hey Professor Savoir Faire, if enough people are well armed, there are no concetration camps.
That's why Nazis decided to pass on Switzerland.
"'In Switzerland, the only "gun control" law was that every man must shoot accurately at 300 meters. Had they attacked, the Nazis would have needed no gun registration records – they could have assumed that every man had a gun. As war clouds approached, in 1938 at the World Shooting Championships held in Luzern, Switzerland, Swiss Federal President Philipp Etter declared: 'There is probably no other country that, like Switzerland, gives the soldier his weapon to keep in the home. . . . With this rifle, he is liable every hour, if the country calls, to defend his hearth, his home, his family, his birthplace. The weapon is to him a pledge and sign of honor and freedom. The Swiss does not part with his rifle."'
When I think of the bad things committed by Hitler I think of genocide, concentration camps, invading other countries, when conservatives think of bad things committed by Hitler they mention gun control.
my grandfather who was conservative, talked about not only the gun control done by the nazi's, but he also talked about the gas chambers and concentration camps that he went into during WWII, they made him ill, and made the war a bit more personal for him at least.
I do find it odd that a democratic politician who took a gun law put into place against the people in a nazi country, would have thought that law would be great for the USA. dodd should have been tried and hung as a traitor.
When I think of the bad things committed by Hitler I think of genocide, concentration camps, invading other countries, when conservatives think of bad things committed by Hitler they mention gun control.
I'm absolutely certain you've never been in Teufels Moor.
It's German, means Devil's Swamp.
It's in northern Germany, Niedersachsen (the State), around Schwanwede Worpswede....here it is in all it's glory...
I used to play there. It was fun. And scary.
That wasn't the original name of the swamp. The northern Germans weren't exactly fond of the National Socialist Party, or Hitler. For that reason, Hitler had to put a Gestapo headquarters up in Paderborn. I used to go there and eat cheese and onion sammiches. That was the British Zone of Operations after WW II. Northern Army Group (NORTHAG). Commander BALTAP. And no, BALTAP isn't someone's name, it stands for Baltic Approaches (a navy and air force thing). So the Brits took over the SS Gestapo headquarters after WW II and had a NAAFI there -- sort of like a PX/BX you find on US bases, you know, TVs and radios and groceries, snack bar, barber shop (or maybe barber shoppe).
Somewhere out there, there's a Black & White film clip showing an SS swastika symbol being blown off the top of a building -- I think that's the building.
Anyway, the local Germans used to lure these SS troops into the swamp at night, and then run them around, get them lost, or stuck in a mud pit or quick sand and then kill them.
With pitch forks and stuff.
If the Germans would have had guns, they could have killed a lot more.
In fact, if the Germans would have had guns, the northern States of Bremen, Niedersachsen and Flensburg might have seceded or in some other way started a civil war....which could have prevented WW II from happening, or at least from expanding beyond the Sudetenland and Poland. Figure the Danes and Norges help out.......
Or it could have changed the scope of the war, giving the Allies, or I guess the Brits since the French are wimps, a couple of ports to use to land troops and equipment at Bremerhaven or Bremen (both on the River Weser -- yes the river of Pied Piper fame).
Anyway, after the War -- and continuing to the present --- there were lots of reports of ghosts, presumably of these dead SS troops wandering around the swamp. That's what the people who live in the area, some of whom participated in those actions told me. That's why the name changed from Osten Moor (Oster on some maps) to Tuefels Moor. The geometric blue lines on the map -- obviously man-made -- those are drainage canals. They've been trying to drain the swamp for 50+ years without a lot of success.
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Yeah, the NRA most certainly has always bought people in Washington with all their money....their war chest. They have been quite the bully. Their power in Washington is diminishing whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
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Dec 20 2012, 6:00 AM ET
Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
Lawmakers charged with merging the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act decided on Tuesday to drop a provision that would have explicitly barred the military from holding American citizens and permanent residents in indefinite detention without trial as terrorism suspects, according to Congressional staff members familiar with the negotiations.
You can be proud all you want but the power of the NRA and their lobbyists in Washington is diminishing and may very well may be done as we speak.
We have a multi billion per year private prison system that lobbies government....and that prison system is fed by the black market drug and firearms trades...
You can cheer when they take the guns from the the honest people who want to protect their families...they are the only ones who get hurt.
Because the people who haven't been able to buy ANY gun at all over the last 50 years are still going to get them. And they are still going to kill with them and they are going to still fight gun wars with them.
Don't believe it? I got 37 billion reasons for you
Apparently you lack the mental faculties to make the connection.
I'm absolutely certain you've never been in Teufels Moor.
It's German, means Devil's Swamp.
It's in northern Germany, Niedersachsen (the State), around Schwanwede Worpswede....here it is in all it's glory...
I used to play there. It was fun. And scary.
That wasn't the original name of the swamp. The northern Germans weren't exactly fond of the National Socialist Party, or Hitler. For that reason, Hitler had to put a Gestapo headquarters up in Paderborn. I used to go there and eat cheese and onion sammiches. That was the British Zone of Operations after WW II. Northern Army Group (NORTHAG). Commander BALTAP. And no, BALTAP isn't someone's name, it stands for Baltic Approaches (a navy and air force thing). So the Brits took over the SS Gestapo headquarters after WW II and had a NAAFI there -- sort of like a PX/BX you find on US bases, you know, TVs and radios and groceries, snack bar, barber shop (or maybe barber shoppe).
Somewhere out there, there's a Black & White film clip showing an SS swastika symbol being blown off the top of a building -- I think that's the building.
Anyway, the local Germans used to lure these SS troops into the swamp at night, and then run them around, get them lost, or stuck in a mud pit or quick sand and then kill them.
With pitch forks and stuff.
If the Germans would have had guns, they could have killed a lot more.
In fact, if the Germans would have had guns, the northern States of Bremen, Niedersachsen and Flensburg might have seceded or in some other way started a civil war....which could have prevented WW II from happening, or at least from expanding beyond the Sudetenland and Poland. Figure the Danes and Norges help out.......
Or it could have changed the scope of the war, giving the Allies, or I guess the Brits since the French are wimps, a couple of ports to use to land troops and equipment at Bremerhaven or Bremen (both on the River Weser -- yes the river of Pied Piper fame).
Anyway, after the War -- and continuing to the present --- there were lots of reports of ghosts, presumably of these dead SS troops wandering around the swamp. That's what the people who live in the area, some of whom participated in those actions told me. That's why the name changed from Osten Moor (Oster on some maps) to Tuefels Moor. The geometric blue lines on the map -- obviously man-made -- those are drainage canals. They've been trying to drain the swamp for 50+ years without a lot of success.
IIs that what you call everybody who makes too much sense?
Stories about a lonely child playing in a swamp don't dispute my observation.
You righties are upset with Hitler because he enacted gun laws and was a vegetarian. I disapprove of Hitler because he led a genocide.
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