NRA to NYT: We're coming for you

Dang.

Tom Seleck aka Richard and Magnum, PI is a card carrying member. I loved Richard. But not if he belongs to the NRA.

The fist is from the anti-Trump "Resistance Movement" themselves, so if you have a problem with the fist, take it up with them. 
She did say she would refute their argument point by point and I don't see that as unhinged. 

Well, the NRA has to do SOMETHING to get attention because they can't cry, "Trump is going to get your guns" the way they did with Obabma for 8 years.

I also saw that gun sales are down now that the perceived threat is gone.

Shit - I could almost see spittle coming from her mouth. She is totally unhinged.

There are many NRA members who are outraged with these ads.

Most can see that they are just pandering to Trumps base and to keep inciting them and ensuring that division is always there.

When you think about it, there isn't much press on the 2nd Amendment right now, so the NRA is trying to keep a fire lit to stay relevant.

Never forget the NRA is largely a gun manufacturers lobby co-opted from and masquerading as a gun owners group.

"In its early days, the National Rifle Association was a grassroots social club that prided itself on independence from corporate influence.

While that is still part of the organization's core function, today less than half of the NRA's revenues come from program fees and membership dues.

The bulk of the group's money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources."

www.businessinsider.com/gun-industry-funds-nra-2013-1

This is the thing that baffles me. I do know a good number of pretty liberalish democrats who own guns for a variety of reasons-hunting, sport, home protection...whatever. Ads like the ones that the NRA are putting out do nothing but alienate those that are not opposed to gun ownership and also believe in sensible ownership regulations. They are more worried about being lumped in with the crazies.

I have told this story before but not too that long ago my whole family was hanging around my mom's kitchen. We are, for the most part, a pretty liberal group. And as we were all sitting around stuffing our faces with the bounty that is my mom's cooking, we had a 20 minute discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of various guns for home protection. We are a-okay with the guns, and we are a-okay with sensible rules regulating that ownership. We were not afraid President Obama would take them away, we are not ready to defend ourselves from "THE FEDS." We may want a gun for home protection, we may want a gun for target shooting, we may want a gun for hunting...and we are the ones that are really not okay with ads like these because ultimately what it does is deepen the divide between the sides making it so no one is ever able to sit at the same table and serious discussions about what we have in common rather than what we don't.

A little history on the "clenched fist" symbol:

www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/News/history-clenched-fist/story%3fid=39006994



www.denverpost.com/2017/01/23/president-trumps-clenched-fist-inaugural-address/



www.buzzfeed.com/nielaorr/what-does-the-raised-fist-mean-in-2017?utm_term=.tnYlRPJnv#.helQmRYo0

So it's bullshit that the "clenched fist" is (hailing from/origins/started because of) the "anti-trump resistance movement " as he himself used it in his doom & gloom inaugural address.

Care to explain @mytnice why Trump did it, with family approval in the background, at his inauguration.

It's a classic symbol/gesture for "power" and/or "resistance". And despite the objection that the Resist Movement is using it, they are. Google for yourself if you need to, but to call it bullshit is completely irrational.


Adam Lambert

You didn't answer the question.

I didn't ask what symbol/gesture it stood for or who else uses it.

and don't put words in my mouth........I didn't say anything about it being bullshit, I also don't need to Google it either.