Posts Tagged ‘NRA’
If Only Jimmy Carter Had Had A Second Term
View this post on Instagram #fuckreagan #reagan #reaganomics A post shared by Being Liberal (@beingliberal) on Apr 27, 2020 at 2:06pm PDT
Read MoreJersey Shootings and the Endless American Arms Race
Yesterday in New Jersey, armed gunmen took part in what has fairly been described as a “battle” with police for several hours. After an initial confrontation in a cemetery in which the police were apparently fired upon with high powered rifles, the suspects fled in a van and barricaded themselves inside a Kosher supermarket, trading…
Read MoreMeme: Public Safety Is a Right
Meme: Days Since Mass Killings
Virginia Beach: A Response
Virginia Beach et al: The following was my response to another friend: No simple answer to your question, Laurie. But five that come to mind are: 1) Not only simply effecting more gun control, but also taking steps to remove the proliferation of guns from our society. That means removing the profit incentive from gun…
Read MoreSecret Listing of the NRA Board of Directors, 2019-2020
By K. Thomas Ross “[The NRA’s] promotional and propaganda … constitute its major reasons for existence. It does not … relieve the government of its burden of [gun safety and military gun training] education. If [the NRA] should succeed to any large extent in teaching the youth of the nation to shoot, without at the…
Read MoreThe Annual Meeting of the NRA
By K Thomas Ross The NRA’s annual meeting this year is at the Indianapolis Convention Center the weekend of April 26-28. The main hotel is the JW Marriott next door. The event has speakers, entertainment, and “15 acres of guns and gear”. tRump will speak again at the NRA Convention. Both share a similar constituency…
Read MoreThe NRA, A Clear and Present Danger
The last few weeks have proven what we all suspected: the National Rifle Association is a serious problem. Not because of guns, specifically, but because it appears to be shot through (no pun intended) with foreign agents. It looks more and more as if the group is not really in the business of promoting, however…
Read MoreThe New 2018-2019 (Top-Secret) NRA Board of Directors
By Kenneth Ross “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr. The National Rifle Association does not publish (since 2013) a listing of its Board of Directors. They have 76 directors, 25…
Read MoreAnd We Sell Still More Guns
Huffpost is reporting that Donald Trump is working to make it easier and cheaper for US gun manufacturers to sell their product overseas. His greed knows no bounds. Makes perfect sense to me that he is reducing the restrictions on the exportation of death so arms manufacturers and dealers can make a bloody buck. SAD!…
Read More