The NRA is sinking.

[WoundedKnee]

Is it underwater yet?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Is it underwater yet?

<Que Mode>

Teh NRA is STRONGER THAN EVAR!
STRONGER THAN EVAR, DAMMIT!!​

</Que Mode>

 

[phrodeau]

http://time.com/5193263/nra-school-grants/

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...cle_27d7ad57-6b3c-50fe-a0ac-a4257aaf120a.html

After the Sandy Hook massacre of twenty preteen children, the NRA quadrupled their grants to schools, contributing weapons, ammunition and cash for students to train and compete in gun sports.

Now some schools are rejecting the funds, and others are considering whether they really need to be accepting NRA's cash and arsenals.

 

[bellisarius]

http://time.com/5193263/nra-school-grants/

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...cle_27d7ad57-6b3c-50fe-a0ac-a4257aaf120a.html

After the Sandy Hook massacre of twenty preteen children, the NRA quadrupled their grants to schools, contributing weapons, ammunition and cash for students to train and compete in gun sports.

Now some schools are rejecting the funds, and others are considering whether they really need to be accepting NRA's cash and arsenals.

Symbolism over substance.

What you don't seem to understand but the politicians do is that the NRA is a grass roots organization. It's not an organization made up of some few mega-donors. It's made up of millions of small donors and therein is the foundation of their power. Every time the politicians make noise about gun bans, membership increases. And those members are voters.

So those districts are perfectly free to turn down the grants None of which go to the purchase of firearms or ammunition, something YOU added which is bullshit.

 

[phrodeau]

Symbolism over substance.

What you don't seem to understand but the politicians do is that the NRA is a grass roots organization. It's not an organization made up of some few mega-donors. It's made up of millions of small donors and therein is the foundation of their power. Every time the politicians make noise about gun bans, membership increases. And those members are voters.

So those districts are perfectly free to turn down the grants None of which go to the purchase of firearms or ammunition, something YOU added which is bullshit.

Didn't read too far, did you?

Grants are often provided as equipment rather than cash, with schools given rifles, ammunition, safety gear and updates to shooting ranges. Nationally, about $1.3 million was provided as cash, while $6 million was provided through equipment, training and other costs.

 

[Pookie]

Didn't read too far, did you?

Ouch.

 

[Adre]

Symbolism over substance.

What you don't seem to understand but the politicians do is that the NRA is a grass roots organization. It's not an organization made up of some few mega-donors. It's made up of millions of small donors and therein is the foundation of their power. Every time the politicians make noise about gun bans, membership increases. And those members are voters.

So those districts are perfectly free to turn down the grants None of which go to the purchase of firearms or ammunition, something YOU added which is bullshit.

“But the NRA also takes in revenue from many other sources, such as donations. In 2016, for instance, a single donor gave nearly $20 million to the group, according to its IRS filing. Earlier this year, McClatchy reported that the NRA is under FBI investigation into whether a Russian banker funneled money through the group to help then-candidate Donald Trump.”

Washington Post says otherwise.

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kroger-guns-stops-gun-sales-to-those-under-21/

Kroger stops gun sales to those under 21.

Update: Fred Meyer will stop selling guns and ammunition to anyone. Kroger, their parent company, will also remove certain gun-themed magazines (that's the bound printed matter) from their newsstands.

http://www.ktvz.com/news/fred-meyer-to-stop-selling-guns-ammunition/717642959

 

[mark_j]

Update: Fred Meyer will stop selling guns and ammunition to anyone. Kroger, their parent company, will also remove certain gun-themed magazines (that's the bound printed matter) from their newsstands.

http://www.ktvz.com/news/fred-meyer-to-stop-selling-guns-ammunition/717642959

Fred Meyer has never been known for selling much in that area.. So it isn't much of a loss to anyone.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Update: Fred Meyer will stop selling guns and ammunition to anyone. Kroger, their parent company, will also remove certain gun-themed magazines (that's the bound printed matter) from their newsstands.

http://www.ktvz.com/news/fred-meyer-to-stop-selling-guns-ammunition/717642959

Oh not not getting rid of printed materials that are already a dying product because internet!!!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Didn't read too far, did you?

Not very far at all. But then, Ishmael has been an advocate of "alternate facts" way before Trump took office.

 

[phrodeau]

Fred Meyer has never been known for selling much in that area.. So it isn't much of a loss to anyone.

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

 

[phrodeau]

https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_12/2370481/image003_ac6a2708a23015ae6e70ed2899fd092f.fit-600w.png

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-republican-support-white-women-a8268686.html

NRA is being abandoned by white women and moderate Republicans, finds poll

People living in cities also less likely to hold favourable views of pro-gun group

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fi...political-insult-declines-chide-putin-n858621

The biggest drops for the NRA came from white married women (50 percent positive in April 2017, 35 percent now), urban residents (43 percent positive in April, 28 percent now), white women (47 percent positive in April, 33 percent now) and moderate/soft Republicans (72 percent positive in April, 60 percent now).

 

[Que]

https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_12/2370481/image003_ac6a2708a23015ae6e70ed2899fd092f.fit-600w.png

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-republican-support-white-women-a8268686.html



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fi...political-insult-declines-chide-putin-n858621

Oh, noes! People living in places that are never going to vote Republican aren't supporting the NRA? Whatever will they do to continue not having any influence in those cities the way that they haven't had any influence ever?

The DNC should continue to concentrate all of their resources and messaging to those big blue cities for the win!

 

[WoundedKnee]

Has James Cameron begun his hunt for the NRA yet?

 

[RobDownSouth]

The NRA is stronger than ever!
THE NRA IS STRONGER THAN EVER, DAMMIT!

The stink of desperation pervades little queerbait's posts more and more often of late.

#HeTriesSooooHard
#PewPewPew
#ForgiveMeAJ

 

[phrodeau]

The stink of desperation pervades little queerbait's posts more and more often of late.

#HeTriesSooooHard
#PewPewPew
#ForgiveMeAJ

Is someone farting in my thread? Maybe he needs a cap on his ass.

 

[Radiohead]

Is someone farting in my thread? Maybe he needs a cap on his ass.

In Australia you need a gun licence to fire caps.

 

[phrodeau]

In Australia you need a gun licence to fire caps.

They're well regulated down under, like our second amendment says we should be.

 

[Luk]

Oh, noes! People living in places that are never going to vote Republican aren't supporting the NRA?

Good of you to admit that the NRA controls the GOP and that you're just a small flaccid piece of that wounded animal.

 

[phrodeau]

NRA is pouring ads onto Youtube begging people to join.

I thought maybe it was just me, based on my browsing history or something. But no, it was true.

https://bangordailynews.com/2018/03...pending-aggressively-after-parkland-shooting/

According to a previously unpublished review by Pathmatics, a company that scrapes data from online ads, the NRA spent more than 6 times as much on digital ads after the Parkland shooting than it did in the weeks before it. Its average daily spend in the 24 days before Parkland was $11,300, according to Pathmatics. In the 24 days after its silent period, that average jumped to $47,300.

Nearly all of the increase was on social media, primarily Facebook, where the NRA took its spending from an average of $4,400 a day in the three weeks prior to Parkland to $34,000 a day in the three weeks after the silence. Florida was heavily targeted in the post-tragedy ad burst. The state went from ninth most targeted in January to third between mid-February and mid-March.

The NRA didn’t change its message – the ads were the same as before the shooting. The message was just pushed much harder. For the past year, the NRA had been ranked No. 706 by Pathmatics on its list of top YouTube video advertisers. In the period since Feb. 21, the gun-rights group jumped into the top 100 at No. 92.

 

[beezlebub]

Who chooses?

I think that it's possible that Parkland was the last straw. Social media was in it's infancy during Columbine and Sandy Hook. It should be easy to organize an anti-NRA lobby to buy legislators who will enact sensible gun laws.

What are sensible guns laws? Requiring a background check? We do that already. So what are sensible gun laws really? Will we be banning guns? Will we ban assault rifles? Will we be banning knives, baseball bats or cars too?
Who gets to decide what is banned?
What is a sensible gun law?

 

[phrodeau]

What are sensible guns laws? Requiring a background check? We do that already. So what are sensible gun laws really? Will we be banning guns? Will we ban assault rifles? Will we be banning knives, baseball bats or cars too?
Who gets to decide what is banned?
What is a sensible gun law?

Maybe some of these: http://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2018/03/seven-steps/

1. Require all gun purchases to meet approval by local LEO's.
2. Remove access to guns from mentally vulnerable and suicidal people.
3. Impose manufacturing, safety and marketing standards on gun makers.
4. Require all gun sales and transfers of ownership to be made through licensed and regulated dealers.
5. Require safe and secure storage of firearms.
6. Track statistics on gun use at the state level.
7. Ban semi-automatic assault weapons (as defined in federal law), high-capacity magazines and sniper rifles.

 

[BobBalouski]

Screw that law of the land, nation of law, shall not be infringed part...

...a nation of men proclaims we'll just democratically circumvent the Constitution as collective, mob rule mood deems fit.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Maybe some of these: http://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2018/03/seven-steps/


[*]Ban semi-automatic assault weapons (as defined in federal law), high-capacity magazines and sniper rifles.
[/LIST]

The obsession continues....

So you don't want to ban anything because AR-15's will still be totally available.

Do you people not understand that unless you ban all semi-automatic weaponry that whole "assault weapons" ban is just a fucking joke?

LOL...morons.


#1 = nope, never going to happen.

#2...already there, just need law enforcement to do their job.

#3...what the fuck kidna random and vague pointless bullshit is that?

#4....fair and wouldn't be very difficult.

#5...define "safe and secure" and I'm betting it won't pass muster.

#6.... good way to squander billions on herp-a-derp.