Posted on 05/09/2018 7:51:42 AM PDT by rktman
.......if one were to believe many of the reports by outside interests, it would be easy to conclude that the 2018 NRA Convention was a gathering of irresponsible, murder-sympathizing automatons whose only goal in life is to squeeze the trigger of a machine gun and laugh fiendishly while doing so. That anti-NRA narrative has been voiced in recent years by groups such as the Bloomberg-financed “Everytown for Gun Safety” and the gun-hating “Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.”
This year, the ranks of the Blame-the-NRA-for-Everything movement has been joined by a cadre of high schoolers led by one David Hogg; whose profanity-laced rhetoric is matched only by his lack of understanding of, or concern for, facts or history. The mainstream media, of course, gleefully offers these post-Millennial adolescents a regular forum from which to criticize the NRA and its supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Blaming the NRA is nothing new. i remember 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered and protestors were marching out side the NRA HQ with protest signs which read NATIONAL RIFLE ASSASSINATIONS!
Gun owners caught hell back then, and the NRA, which had a few hundred thousand members, went over a million. And it had no lobbying arm at that time.
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