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Who Supports the NRA?

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Shannon shows us.

A very diverse @NRA crowd today in Virginia: White men with gray hair AND white men who are bald.

This is why the NRA lost in November and why they’ll fail going forward: Gun extremists look nothing like the makeup of America, and they don’t reflect the majority’s views.

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It does beg the question. What the hell is it with old white dudes and their obsession with guns?

Look, I get having a piece for protection, especially for women who are easily out-muscled. But, we don't see a hundred women in that line shown in the clip above. Do we? No. We see dudes, old dudes; white old dudes to be exact.

What gives?
 
calamity said:
Shannon shows us.



It does beg the question. What the hell is it with old white dudes and their obsession with guns?

Look, I get having a piece for protection, especially for women who are easily out-muscled. But, we don't see a hundred women in that line shown in the clip above. Do we? No. We see dudes, old dudes; white old dudes to be exact.

What gives?
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It's paranoia pumped up by the media who scares them with warnings 'They're coming to take away your guns!' I don't care who wants to own guns for self protection, that doesn't bother me at all, but they should be responsible gun owners that purchased them legally with a verified background check being done first. My son is a gun owner, carries one when he walks the dog in the woods, he's met up with bears a few times and had to fire a round to scare them off.

My problem is that there are so many people that are either emotionally or mentally unstable who can easily buy a gun through a gun show or online, and those are the types of people, the ones that need to skirt around the system just to get a weapon, those people are dangerous to society.

Case in point, last week two teenagers in Milwaukee, a 12 year old girl and 13 year old boy were shot for throwing snowballs at a passing car. They were part of a group of kids throwing snowballs at cars and one hit a white Toyota. The driver retaliated by stopping his car, drawing his handgun and shooting two of the kids. They each sustained non life-threatening wounds but the driver got away.
 
calamity said:
Shannon shows us.



It does beg the question. What the hell is it with old white dudes and their obsession with guns?

Look, I get having a piece for protection, especially for women who are easily out-muscled. But, we don't see a hundred women in that line shown in the clip above. Do we? No. We see dudes, old dudes; white old dudes to be exact.

What gives?
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It should be no surprise to anyone that more men are interested in gun ownership than women. That said, I saw quite a few women in the crowd. Age probably has more to do with the time of day than anything else. But sure, gun ownership is probably more a thing with the older generation. Most kids are busy spending all their time playing video games that simulate murdering other people for no reason, rather than going outside for any reason.
 
They are at the losing end of our demography.
 
Who Supports the NRA?

Fewer each year, based on membership dues.
 
HumblePi said:
It's paranoia pumped up by the media who scares them with warnings 'They're coming to take away your guns!' I don't care who wants to own guns for self protection, that doesn't bother me at all, but they should be responsible gun owners that purchased them legally with a verified background check being done first. My son is a gun owner, carries one when he walks the dog in the woods, he's met up with bears a few times and had to fire a round to scare them off.

My problem is that there are so many people that are either emotionally or mentally unstable who can easily buy a gun through a gun show or online, and those are the types of people, the ones that need to skirt around the system just to get a weapon, those people are dangerous to society.

Case in point, last week two teenagers in Milwaukee, a 12 year old girl and 13 year old boy were shot for throwing snowballs at a passing car. They were part of a group of kids throwing snowballs at cars and one hit a white Toyota. The driver retaliated by stopping his car, drawing his handgun and shooting two of the kids. They each sustained non life-threatening wounds but the driver got away.
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It's not paranoia. The Virginia legislature is preparing to pass a law that will make it illegal to possess certain popular firearms that are currently legal to own. By definition, that's "coming to take away your guns."
 
Tlrmln said:
It's not paranoia. The Virginia legislature is preparing to pass a law that will make it illegal to possess certain popular firearms that are currently legal to own. By definition, that's "coming to take away your guns."
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No, that's saying "we're going to make certain types of guns illegal to own". In no way does that translate to, 'we're coming to take away your guns'.
 
HumblePi said:
No, that's saying "we're going to make certain types of guns illegal to own". In no way does that translate to, 'we're coming to take away your guns'.
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And criminalizing abortion is simply disallowing the killing of unborn children under the law. It isn't "taking away a woman's right to choose."

One cannot dismiss valid concerns by playing semantic games.
 
Would be interesting to see if fifty years from now, there aren't enough NRA members to stop anti-gun laws.
 
HumblePi said:
No, that's saying "we're going to make certain types of guns illegal to own". In no way does that translate to, 'we're coming to take away your guns'.
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Making them "illegal to own" means "taking them away" to anyone who obeys the law. Are you saying they're going to pass the law, and then not enforce it?
 
calamity said:
Shannon shows us.



It does beg the question. What the hell is it with old white dudes and their obsession with guns?

Look, I get having a piece for protection, especially for women who are easily out-muscled. But, we don't see a hundred women in that line shown in the clip above. Do we? No. We see dudes, old dudes; white old dudes to be exact.

What gives?
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The real question is: how did you become so racist?
 
HumblePi said:
No, that's saying "we're going to make certain types of guns illegal to own". In no way does that translate to, 'we're coming to take away your guns'.
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That's exactly what it translates to. :lamo
 
calamity said:
Shannon shows us.



It does beg the question. What the hell is it with old white dudes and their obsession with guns?

Look, I get having a piece for protection, especially for women who are easily out-muscled. But, we don't see a hundred women in that line shown in the clip above. Do we? No. We see dudes, old dudes; white old dudes to be exact.

What gives?
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Why do you care so much on depriving honest, law biding citizens their right of self-defense?
 
swing_voter said:
Would be interesting to see if fifty years from now, there aren't enough NRA members to stop anti-gun laws.
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I don't expect to live to be 120 (current age of 70, plus fifty more). I do expect that my kids will still be alive in 50 years. I believe they won't see NRA members stopping "anti-gun laws". Instead, it will be SCOTUS who does the stopping.
 
swing_voter said:
Would be interesting to see if fifty years from now, there aren't enough NRA members to stop anti-gun laws.
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There won’t be. Then the rest of “our” inalienable rights wont be far behind in the chopping block.


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swing_voter said:
Would be interesting to see if fifty years from now, there aren't enough NRA members to stop anti-gun laws.
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There is the GOA and various other pro-2nd amendment groups who will take the NRA's place should the NRA ever go under. And anti-2nd amendment trash will try to demonize those groups as well.
 
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calamity said:
Shannon shows us.



It does beg the question. What the hell is it with old white dudes and their obsession with guns?

Look, I get having a piece for protection, especially for women who are easily out-muscled. But, we don't see a hundred women in that line shown in the clip above. Do we? No. We see dudes, old dudes; white old dudes to be exact.

What gives?
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I really think it's a cultural thing. Firearms have become a cultural symbol, and a symbol of protest against what they feel to be the erosion of their cultural hegemony.
 
ataraxia said:
I really think it's a cultural thing. Firearms have become a cultural symbol, and a symbol of protest against what they feel to be the erosion of their cultural hegemony.
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Firearms are not a symbol. They are the only possible realization of the natural right to self defense. Nothing less will do.
 
HumblePi said:
No, that's saying "we're going to make certain types of guns illegal to own". In no way does that translate to, 'we're coming to take away your guns'.
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How does it not translate to were not going to take away your guns after you make them illegal to own? When something is illegal to own doesn't that mean there are criminal and financially crippling civil penalties for owning that illegal thing, thus a de facto confiscation?
 
HumblePi said:
It's paranoia pumped up by the media who scares them with warnings 'They're coming to take away your guns!' I don't care who wants to own guns for self protection, that doesn't bother me at all, but they should be responsible gun owners that purchased them legally with a verified background check being done first. My son is a gun owner, carries one when he walks the dog in the woods, he's met up with bears a few times and had to fire a round to scare them off.

My problem is that there are so many people that are either emotionally or mentally unstable who can easily buy a gun through a gun show or online, and those are the types of people, the ones that need to skirt around the system just to get a weapon, those people are dangerous to society.

Case in point, last week two teenagers in Milwaukee, a 12 year old girl and 13 year old boy were shot for throwing snowballs at a passing car. They were part of a group of kids throwing snowballs at cars and one hit a white Toyota. The driver retaliated by stopping his car, drawing his handgun and shooting two of the kids. They each sustained non life-threatening wounds but the driver got away.
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Do you oppose NAAGA, too?

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ataraxia said:
I really think it's a cultural thing. Firearms have become a cultural symbol, and a symbol of protest against what they feel to be the erosion of their cultural hegemony.
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Really?

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Ya think that's it?
 
Wings said:
There won’t be. Then the rest of “our” inalienable rights wont be far behind in the chopping block.


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Nah. That's just NRA fearmongering. It's like worrying that any speed limits and traffic lights are a first step to communist Soviet style dictatorship.
 
apdst said:
Really?

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Ya think that's it?
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Yes, I do.

Take away the older white men and this sort of rabid anti-regulation neurosis will go away.

NAAGA and the NRA will then maybe just go back to being what they were before the 1980s.

“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.”
Karl T. Frederick, president of the NRA, testifying before congress in 1939
 
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