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Ah yes... the Evil NRA.... an organization that exists because regular Americans join and pay an annual fee to insure the NRA represents their views to politicians...
Millions upon Millions of individual Americans....
Didn't you get the memo? The NRA is an all-powerful, evil cabal that truly runs the entire world. ANYTHING that the NRA doesn't approve of cannot possibly happen. Even when the Dems had 60 Senators, a House majority, and the Presidency (yeah, I know, ancient history; that was over EIGHT YEARS AGO!!!), in addition to any gun legislation, the NRA blocked the Dems from passing universal health care, legislation legalizing gay marriage, increases in taxes on evil rich people, and any kind of comprehensive immigration reform. Apparently the NRA also designed a new health care bill that would tank the popularity of the Dems as it created increasing premiums for lesser health care policies all the while mandating that people purchase them.
The NRA also killed four Americans in Libya, led an insurgency against American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, crashed airplanes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and generally is the root cause of all evil and will undoubtedly one day be recognized as the Anti-Christ.
Or...... perhaps the NRA is just one lobbying group out of many. While it is influential, perhaps it is influential because there are a large number of Americans who agree with the policies favored by the NRA? Nah, that can't be right!
Hmmf. Maybe you reached your limit of views. Herewith a few quotes:
In the early 1930s, with gangsters like John Dillinger mowing down his enemies with machine guns on the streets, Congress held hearings on a sweeping proposal to severely restrict firearm sales.
The testimony of one man — now all but forgotten — stood out.
“I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons,” said Karl T. Frederick, according to a transcript of the hearings. “I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”
Frederick’s words were notable then, and especially now, because of who he was: the president of the National Rifle Association.
The effort to pass the National Firearms Act of 1934 is a case in point. Pushed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the original proposal called for registering, taxing and severely restricting access not just to machine guns and sawed off shotguns, but pistols as well. Frederick was willing to deal on the big guns, but not the small ones.
During the hearing, in arguing against fingerprinting gun owners, Frederick testified that “automobile owners are not fingerprinted and are, as a class, a much more criminal body, from the standpoint of percentage, than pistol licensees.”
The chairman of the committee: “Do you make that statement seriously?”
Frederick: “Yes, sir.”
The chairman: “That the ordinary man who owns and operates an automobile is more likely to be a criminal than the man who arms himself?”
Frederick: “I said pistol licensees, those who have gone to the trouble of securing a license to carry weapons, are a most law-abiding body, and the perpetration of a crime by such a licensee is almost unknown.”
This week we lost 17 Americans in Parkland - the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012. Since then, 438 people have been shot and 138 killed in over 230 school shootings. That’s 5 school shootings every month, 16 of which classify as “mass shootings.”
Are her math and grammar correct? It looks as if she's saying 16 is less than 5.
The only thing that is off here is that some people actually listen to that lying, bigoted, war monger.
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