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In reply to the discussion: How can we drown the NRA in a bathtub? [View all]Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)2. The NRA would like us to believe that they are funded by American gun owners
The truth is that most of their money comes from "Corporate Partners" (gun and ammo manufacturers). They are just a marketing department of the gun industry. More people should know this.
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The NRA would like us to believe that they are funded by American gun owners
Teamster Jeff
Dec 2012
#2
And the NRA's board includes those gun profiteers, and Grover Norquist, John Bolton, Ollie North,
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#32
No, the tax on cigarets and alcohol is a Sin tax. Because both are bad cigarets and alcohol for you.
RC
Dec 2012
#38
I don't doubt that they had a religious basis when they were put into effect.
former9thward
Dec 2012
#61
Thanks. You give the wingnuts that "kernel of truth" from which they distort reality about us.
cleanhippie
Dec 2012
#57
Keep Democrats from supporting and enacting useless feel good laws that do nothing. nt
rrneck
Dec 2012
#8
Holy shit. Did you just post that you would kill a person in order to take their gun?
cleanhippie
Dec 2012
#29
We gotta stop these shootings no matter how many we have to shoot to do it.
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#63
I guess we could say the NRA is taxing this country, and Norquist will then drown the
madinmaryland
Dec 2012
#13
Hell, friggin Norquist is on the NRA board of directors -- if anyone doubts how right wing they are.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#33
Thousands of parents should head there and tear it apart like the Berlin Wall. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#19