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Smith: The NRA Has Won and America Is Stuck in a ‘Doom Loop’ of Gun Buying
thetruthaboutguns ^ | 4/17/23 | Grace Stevens

Posted on 04/18/2023 4:04:17 PM PDT by CFW

[Erika D. Smith]

[O]ne would think supporting policies that let Americans carry any type of gun, anywhere, at anytime would be a losing proposition for any politician, much less one who wants to be president.

And yet as I listened to Trump — and the parade of equally craven Oval Office hopefuls who preceded him onstage — I began to realize that he just might be right in his political calculation. Because, far from losing, the NRA seems to be winning. In fact, it might already have won, polls be damned.

Why would I believe such a thing?

It’s not because of the nonsense I heard longtime NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre spout last week, including that the Founding Fathers created the 2nd Amendment so that, from “the day you’re born,” Americans have the “God-given right” to carry a gun for self-defense that cannot be infringed upon.

Nor is it because, as former Vice President Mike Pence told the NRA faithful, “freedom is under attack,” and Americans are determined to not let the government take their guns. I’ll spare you the stories of people I know who think this so fervently that they’ve buried boxes of semiautomatic rifles and ammunition in their backyards.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; firearms; nra
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Well, someone is starting to face reality. No matter how much the left blames the NRA, it is the people themselves who are standing up for their 2nd Amendment rights.

However, anyone who lets this person know they have guns and ammo buried in their back yard is foolish.

1 posted on 04/18/2023 4:04:17 PM PDT by CFW
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I’m not in a doom loop buying guns. That’s ridiculous. I’m pretty sure I have all the guns I need.


2 posted on 04/18/2023 4:06:12 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Yipppeee!! I’m stuck in a gun loop and I don’t want out.


3 posted on 04/18/2023 4:06:31 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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To: CFW

No one’s forcing you to buy guns, Erika


4 posted on 04/18/2023 4:08:47 PM PDT by struggle
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To: CFW
[P]olicies that let Americans carry any type of gun, anywhere, at anytime would be....... the God-given right which the drafters of the Bill of Rights understood needed to be protected from the overreaches of out of control government.
5 posted on 04/18/2023 4:10:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Awww….poor Grace, take a Midol, it might help.


6 posted on 04/18/2023 4:10:55 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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America is stuck in a doom loop of Godless violent, unrepentant criminals preying on innocents abetted by Soros communist DAs failing to charge them.


7 posted on 04/18/2023 4:11:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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I just wonder what the Leftist idiots thought would come to of letting violent criminals back out on the streets after they had committed violent crimes and having been caught

Did they think that urban dwellers would just shrug their shoulders and calmly weight for the violent killers to find them and bring their lives to a violent end.

Most US Citizens are rational creatures. They will acquire the best means of defending their lives that they can afford.

Usually a firearm.


8 posted on 04/18/2023 4:12:40 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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As long as the far-left turd rollers are going to continue to orchestrate these school shootings for their political campaigns and turn each tribe in the U.S. against the other tribes, Americans are going to need guns. The number of school shootings have skyrocketed since the pedophile and his ho rose to power. It’s a disgrace.


9 posted on 04/18/2023 4:13:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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Left the NRA when they silently let trump ban bumpstocks.. Gun Owners of America is much better. The NRA went progressive with trump.


10 posted on 04/18/2023 4:14:19 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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There are far more people who own guns and are not NRA members. The left always needs a demon and the NRA is their demon when it comes to guns.

It scares RATs to think that people don’t care about being in a group and just go out and get what they want because it is a personal preference and their Constitutional right to own guns.


11 posted on 04/18/2023 4:16:02 PM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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“...supporting policies that let Americans carry any type of gun, anywhere, at anytime...”


And here we have a good example of how seemingly educated people don’t understand what America is all about. The Constitution is what we the people let the government do, not the other way round.

The noted ‘Constitutional scholar’, Barack Obama bemoaned this fact and saw it as a flaw.


12 posted on 04/18/2023 4:19:01 PM PDT by hanamizu
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The author above beat around the bush for a whole article regarding the reason that more people are buying guns, and still came up with the wrong conclusion.

It’s very simple:

Democrats are the best salespeople when it comes to gun ownership. The crime waves in many areas of the country, mostly controlled by the blue-democrats, are causing people to go out and have a weapon with which to defend themselves.

The author above should ‘gain a function’ for his brain and come up with the real reason for more guns being sold. But, I’ve given him the answer, so, perhaps he could come up with a real reason for the border crisis.


13 posted on 04/18/2023 4:19:05 PM PDT by adorno
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Uh, pretty sure Grace is reporting on fidiot err-EEK-uh and her hopolophobia.(sp)


14 posted on 04/18/2023 4:19:11 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Gen.Blather

My thought is the first three rounds are the most important. One for the guy beating on your door, the next for the guy that was trying to follow him, the next for the azzhole backing out of your driveway. If you survive that, you can play with the stuff you stock pile. Watch for drones.

I call it the three bullet rule.


15 posted on 04/18/2023 4:21:45 PM PDT by Equine1952
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I live in a county that voted 75% for Donald Trump. Everyone owns guns. No one ever gets shot. No one ever gets murdered.

The murders in this United States are confined to one highly visible and identifiable demographic. This demographic does not obey the law. They don't even know what a gun law is. They don't know the law against murder.

16 posted on 04/18/2023 4:22:39 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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It can be argued that the left is in a perversion loop. That is the real doom loop.


17 posted on 04/18/2023 4:22:40 PM PDT by beef (Say NO to the WOE (War On Energy))
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To: CFW

As the government and its moron supporters reduce law enforcement in America and turn the criminals loose from the prisons, the need for a “dump loop” of gun buying becomes more essential. Anyone who doesn’t own a gun right now is a total idiot.


18 posted on 04/18/2023 4:23:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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To: Gen.Blather

The NRA has kept the USA from becoming Venezuela.


19 posted on 04/18/2023 4:23:49 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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All you need? Maybe. All you want? Maybe not.


20 posted on 04/18/2023 4:23:50 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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