NRA publishes article titled "Taraget Practice" with picture of Nancy Pelosi & Gabby Giffords
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There can be no denying the message the NRA is sending here. It's hard to believe they are allowed to maintain a tax-exempt nonprofit status for promoting violence against lawmakers who disagree with them.
And this was to get you to read an article about how the current democrats are looking to push gun legislation through.
Unlike how at one point the Department of Homeland Security was buying targets that represented what everyday people look like:
These were actual targets that several years ago, the Department of Homeland Security was using for target practice with active agents.
There can be no denying the message the NRA is sending here. It's hard to believe they are allowed to maintain a tax-exempt nonprofit status for promoting violence against lawmakers who disagree with them.
You people are hilarious! You instigate upheaval with your own resistance and violence, then whine with faux outrage about a reaction of your own making!
But keep it up.
To be tax-exempt, an organization is supposed to promote social welfare, further the common good and general welfare, civic betterment, social improvements, and so forth.
NRA does none of this.
NRA is a political lobbying front for gun manufacturers.
The NRA does all of that. They have programs for firearms safety and marksmanship for everyone from small children through professional competitors, training and certification for instructors (including a police firearms instructor certification program), hunter safety education, provide grant money to groups involved in firearms training like the Boy Scouts, junior ROTC groups, junior shooting teams the American Legion, and police departments, provide assistance with designing and building safe practice ranges, have civil defense funds to provide legal and financial aid to the general public to protect their civil rights, etc.
The problem here is that you're trying to use "NRA" as a blanket term. It's not a single organization. The main "NRA", that you can become a member of is a 501(c)4 organization, like the ACLU, AARP, or The Brady Campaign (which would be the anti-NRA). They're non-profits, but not charities, and they are certainly politically active. The NRA also operates several legitimate 501(c)3 charities (think Red Cross). They also operate a political action committee and a lobbying arm. They can't just shuffle money around between the various organizations, and they all do their own fundraising.
That is because the Giffords family is shock of shockers gun owners. All they want is for the gun laws to be effective enough to prevent what happened to Gabby Giffords at her town hall meeting. The problem is the NRA has empowered gun nuts since at least the Brady Bill was a Bill. This shows how much the NRA is tone deaf.
Bull. The gun used in her shooting was legally purchased at an FFL dealer and the buyer passed the NICS background check. If anything-this is just more proof that the very laws she is proposing do nothing to prevent violence.
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