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Teamster Jeff

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2. The NRA would like us to believe that they are funded by American gun owners
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:40 PM
Dec 2012

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.

There are enough tears to drown more than the NRA. Vox Moi Dec 2012 #1
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
Force registry of all guns. Waltons_Mtn Dec 2012 #3
I like this idea...tell me more... Taverner Dec 2012 #12
Well the idea is to make guns an expensive hobby. Waltons_Mtn Dec 2012 #18
A real 1%er solution. former9thward Dec 2012 #34
I think most of the 1% hire their guns rather than buy them. Liberal Gramma Dec 2012 #36
That is absolutely not the reason for cig and alcohol taxes. former9thward Dec 2012 #37
No, the tax on cigarets and alcohol is a Sin tax. Because both are bad cigarets and alcohol for you. RC Dec 2012 #38
Ohh, its a "sin" now... former9thward Dec 2012 #39
You must be a fairly young. RC Dec 2012 #49
I am probably older than you. former9thward Dec 2012 #54
I'm 68. I grew up in Kansas. RC Dec 2012 #55
I don't doubt that they had a religious basis when they were put into effect. former9thward Dec 2012 #61
WTF Joe the Revelator Dec 2012 #58
You can't respond to it. former9thward Dec 2012 #62
All of this would be thrown out by the supreme court. Travis_0004 Dec 2012 #52
That would be very challanging. ZombieHorde Dec 2012 #4
Deny gun permits to anyone who is a member of the NRA Taverner Dec 2012 #5
Ha! Have fun getting that passed! nt ZombieHorde Dec 2012 #6
You don't have to pass that wording - just say Taverner Dec 2012 #7
You may need to wait for the Supreme Court to shift a bit in our favor. nt ZombieHorde Dec 2012 #10
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Taverner Dec 2012 #11
How long does a proposal have to wait until the SC views it? nt ZombieHorde Dec 2012 #17
Practically speaking it takes several years... truebluegreen Dec 2012 #53
You missed the point about gun permits. ManiacJoe Dec 2012 #31
Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the NRA? cleanhippie Dec 2012 #26
You keep posting this same thing. RetroLounge Dec 2012 #40
Saving for my lifetime membership now... Lightbulb_on Dec 2012 #45
NRA board members: birther boy Chuck Norris, Grover Norquist Kingofalldems Dec 2012 #48
Grover Norquist thanks you RetroLounge Dec 2012 #51
How come your NRA bigshot pallies are so silent on this tragedy? Kingofalldems Dec 2012 #56
That fact that you approve of ANY "witch hunt" fills me with dread... cleanhippie Dec 2012 #47
Aw, did I upset you? RetroLounge Dec 2012 #50
Thanks. You give the wingnuts that "kernel of truth" from which they distort reality about us. cleanhippie Dec 2012 #57
and you should be gone back to the gungeon RetroLounge Dec 2012 #59
How precious. cleanhippie Dec 2012 #60
No, your gun is your precious... RetroLounge Dec 2012 #64
Ahahahaha! Floyd_Gondolli Dec 2012 #65
He's a delicate little flower, this one. RetroLounge Dec 2012 #66
Keep Democrats from supporting and enacting useless feel good laws that do nothing. nt rrneck Dec 2012 #8
I don't think eliminating all guns from the USA would be a "feel good" law Taverner Dec 2012 #9
Well, at last count rrneck Dec 2012 #16
So I take it you're volunteering to be on the front lines of the effort? Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #21
If that's what it takes...and from their cold dead hands if necessary Taverner Dec 2012 #25
Well okay then. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #27
Holy shit. Did you just post that you would kill a person in order to take their gun? cleanhippie Dec 2012 #29
Post removed Post removed Dec 2012 #30
Another keyboard commando on the internet. former9thward Dec 2012 #35
Yep. If the fascists actually come for us, he will be cowering in fear... cleanhippie Dec 2012 #44
Like I said above... Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #42
It's like you want everything Gleen Beck has said about us to be true. cleanhippie Dec 2012 #43
We gotta stop these shootings no matter how many we have to shoot to do it. TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #63
Who's going to collect the guns for you? Oasis_ Dec 2012 #46
I guess we could say the NRA is taxing this country, and Norquist will then drown the madinmaryland Dec 2012 #13
That's an idea - is there anything we could call the "NRA tax"? Taverner Dec 2012 #14
It's a tax that is paid in human blood. The most regressive tax. madinmaryland Dec 2012 #15
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
+100 Taverner Dec 2012 #20
+1000 RetroLounge Dec 2012 #41
Step one, get rid of the 2nd amendment. hughee99 Dec 2012 #22
Enough with the KILL KILL KILL rhetoric already! Coyotl Dec 2012 #23
Oh, by all means let's hold hands and sing Kumbaya for the NRA Taverner Dec 2012 #24
We should all join the NRA and change the charter. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #28
a new logo (from NoTeaParty) napkinz Dec 2012 #67
Agreed. 99Forever Dec 2012 #68
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