#NRAdoesn'tmatteranymore

[phrodeau]

http://www.stripes.com/opinion/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nra-1.419585

Having abandoned even a pretense of bipartisanship, the NRA benefits from a conservative network of allies, including the religious right. But it has completely forfeited influence with Democrats, who have concluded that they have nothing to lose in becoming a party fully devoted to gun regulation. With the GOP publicly unraveling, congressional Democrats appear poised to grow stronger. That’s not good for the NRA.

Like open carry, NRA ideology doesn’t hold up well in real life. “Good guys with guns” too often turn out to be bad guys who kill.

Demographic decline also beckons. As Adam Winkler explained in The Washington Post, the growing parts of the population — Hispanics and Asians — generally support gun regulation, as do blacks. The NRA’s old, white base is in steady decline as portions of both the population and the electorate.

On some level, those most enamored of firearms must sense that their victories, including a highly qualified 5-4 Supreme Court ruling written by a Supreme Court justice who is now deceased, are fragile. Technology, politics, demography and reason, itself, will eventually gang up to defeat a movement that demands guns for everyone, anywhere, all the time, for any reason, regardless of the consequences and in defiance of every civilized norm the world over.

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/...od-week-for-the-NRA-News-Analysis---Gar-Smith

The National Rifle Association likes to argue that people need to carry guns for "self-defense" but real-world experience shows that merely having a gun in your possession can get you killed.

This was the week that proved the NRA's prized meme—"the only cure for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"—was demonstrably false.

To the NRA's closeted chagrin, Philando Castile was "a good guy with a gun" yet, within minutes, he suffered and died, live-streamed, on his girlfriend's Facebook page.

One Bad Guy With a Gun Outshoots an Army of Police

On July 7, five Dallas police officers were killed by a US Army-trained vet armed with a 70-year-old SKS semi-automatic carbine. Another seven officers were wounded. Although the police far outnumbered the solitary shooter (they were, ostensibly again, the "good guys") they were out-gunned (by) a lone sniper.

The NRA was further discomfited by another matter that added to the confusion in Dallas: As many as 30 of the marchers in the crowd of peaceful protesters showed up wearing fatigues, gas-masks, and body armor and brandishing rifles. As of January 1, Dallas (and every other Texas town) became an "open-carry" city. So, when the shooting began in Dallas, cops on the ground couldn't tell who was a threat.

Bad Guys with a Good Guy's Gun

But the NRA's week of calamity wasn't over. On July 11, two bailiffs in Michigan were gunned down by an inmate they were escorting to a court hearing. On the way to a courtroom, an armed deputy—again, an ostensible "good guy with a gun"—had his pistol plucked from its holster from the prisoner he was entrusted to guard. The courthouse was described as an "extremely secure" environment. The inmate, identified as Larry Darnell Gordon, also happened to be handcuffed. In a matter of minutes, two bailiffs were shot dead and a sheriff's deputy and one civilian were wounded before the inmate was gunned down.

 

[snugglestruggle]

http://www.stripes.com/opinion/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nra-1.419585



http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/...od-week-for-the-NRA-News-Analysis---Gar-Smith

Wishful, though deluded thinking.

 

[phrodeau]

Wishful, though deluded thinking.

Yeah, same as Ishmael's thread.

 

[snugglestruggle]

Yeah, same as Ishmael's thread.

Ok that made me laugh

 

[Saint Peter]

Carry in church.
Carry at school.
Carry in the shower.

Just leave that shit at home during the convention!


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-firearms-idUSKCN0ZX0TI

 

[Conager]

Wishful, though deluded thinking.

Every election cycle the anti-gun nuts try to convince Democrats that they should commit political suicide and suggest gun control despite the fact that an awful lot of redneck Democrats have zero interest in gun control.

 

[FGB]

Every election cycle the anti-gun nuts try to convince Democrats that they should commit political suicide and suggest gun control despite the fact that an awful lot of redneck Democrats have zero interest in gun control.

And many time the amount of NRA members are Conservative Republicans as well as Democrats who don't belong yet still support a large majority if the same things.

But go ahead and preach their doom by all means...

 

[RobDownSouth]

After the Dallas shootings (where 20+ fully armed Second Amendment patriots collectively shit themselves and ran for cover at the first sound of gunfire), I seriously doubt we'll ever hear much of the "but..but....GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS" jibba jabba anymore.

 

[Conager]

After the Dallas shootings (where 20+ fully armed Second Amendment patriots collectively shit themselves and ran for cover at the first sound of gunfire), I seriously doubt we'll ever hear much of the "but..but....GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS" jibba jabba anymore.

Was that strategic retreat more, or less, ignominious then the time that you escaped from that black couple asking you for spare change at Goodwill by shoving the woman and then quick-stepping to hide behind the armed security guard?

Why did you feel the need to seek out, specifically in your words, an "armed security guard.?"

Did you fell "enbiggened" standing next to a man armed with a "steel penis extension?"

 

[renard_ruse]

This is a joke right?

Democrats are reeling from this black power bullshit they have stirred up.

NOBODY views the terrorist attacks on the police as a "gun issue."

The black power violence is pushing Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and middle of the road whites away from the Democrats.

 

[renard_ruse]

Democrats are in absolute denial.

The race war they started is going to be their demise.

Yet, the sad sack internet liberals still don't have a clue.

 

[Christobal]

Saying it often enough will not make this true. You can blame the evil bogeyman the NRA for the reason that Americans like guns. You have it backwards. Americans that like guns created and support the NRA.

They are people that vote. Politicians that like their jobs notice this and it will cause them to vote accordingly.

I know you assume all dopey Republicans are pro gun. Democrats must be anti NRA right? Maybe not. Definitely not.

Here is a place where you can check if your candidate is pro gun or anti gun.

http://thedailybeast.thisisyourreponguns.com/