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The day will come when the end of the NRA's blood-stained, political power grip on Washington, DC ends - and what a glorious day for an American celebration that will be:
As hundreds of thousands of protesters prepared to gather in Washington and other cities across the U.S. on Saturday to demand meaningful gun reform, the National Rifle Association took to social media to mock the “March For Our Lives” event and the young gun violence survivors who spearheaded it.
The group posted a membership-drive video to Facebook with a scathing caption about the looming protest marches on Saturday morning.
“Today’s protests aren’t spontaneous,” the post declared. “Gun-hating billionaires and Hollywood elites are manipulating and exploiting children as part of their plan to DESTROY the Second Amendment and strip us of our right to defend ourselves and our loved ones.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nra-march-for-our-lives_us_5ab75f39e4b0decad04ac4d4
In the 1930's America was afflicted by prohibition and depression fueled organized crime, with escalating gun violence in cities around the nation. Guess who took action to mitigate that bloodshed?:
The 1930s crime spree of the Prohibition era, which still summons images of outlaws outfitted with machine guns, prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to make gun control a feature of the New Deal. The NRA assisted Roosevelt in drafting the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, the first federal gun control laws. These laws placed heavy taxes and regulation requirements on firearms that were associated with crime, such as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers. Gun sellers and owners were required to register with the federal government and felons were banned from owning weapons. Not only was the legislation unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court in 1939, but Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”
For the next 30 years, the NRA continued to support gun control.
http://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/
The NRA that assisted then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in drafting the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, the first federal gun control laws, does not exist any more in any manner or form.
The current, gun manufacturer's molded version of the NRA is a pretty clearly defined amalgam of mostly white, mostly male, mostly right wing, testosterone-amped conspiracy loons who actually deluded themselves in to believing that Barack Obama's 2008 election was going to portend an organized, mass effort by the federal government to raid their homes and confiscate their firearms (which did not happen of course).
That idiocy reached a crescendo during the election campaign of 2012 when one of the NRA's own board members, washed-up rock star Ted Nugent, issued a veiled threat that if Americans re-elected Obama to another 4 year term, he himself would wind up either dead or in jail within a year. And of course, Obama did not confiscate a single American's gun in his second term either, and Ted Nugent to this day, is still alive, is still a free citizen, and is still flapping his stupid fucking pie-hole about any efforts at curtailing out-of-control firearms proliferation, as well as personally denigrating Americans who have participated in efforts to take actions against out of control gun violence in this country.
This modern-day NRA is also desperately attempting to convince us all that the media and Hollywood is "brain-washing" Americans against private gun ownership. In the NRA's warped view, Americans who have been affected first-hand by gun violence in their personal lives and in their communities, who then make a conscious decision to get involved with and support efforts to curtail the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of ordinary citizens, are nothing more than phony government paid "crisis actors," publicity seekers and/or stealth communists.
Here is the blunt reality - and The Gadfly knows that this view is going to rattle a few friend's and family member's gun loving cages, but you know what? -- tough fucking shit -- grow up and deal with it like an adult.
The reality is this - the NRA leadership's uncompromising arrogance and fuck you attitude toward the majority of the American public that wants to see an end to the wanton slaughter of our citizenry by these military-style weapons of mass-killing capability, will ultimately be the NRA's very own, self-inflicted mortal wound. And it simply goes without saying that the sooner the demise of this present day version of the NRA occurs, the better and the stronger our American society, and the quality of life, and the futures of our American children will be for it.
That's all.
----TFG
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