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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: thackney on March 05, 2018, 08:51:31 pm

Title: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bias”
Post by: thackney on March 05, 2018, 08:51:31 pm
National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bias” that followed the February 14 Florida school shooting.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/05/nra-memberships-surge-wake-of-anti-nra-protests-media-bias/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/05/nra-memberships-surge-wake-of-anti-nra-protests-media-bias/)

The Daily Mail reports that Google searches for “NRA membership” rose “4,900 percent” since the Florida attack. That rise occurred at a time when many Democrats, media personalities, and Hollywood celebrities were denouncing the NRA as causal in the shooting that took 17 lives in a gun-free zone....

...In addition, more than a dozen companies severed ties with the NRA in the wake of the school attack, ending discounted rates and fares for NRA members.

But a large swath of the American populace is equating these various attacks on the NRA with attacks on the Second Amendment, and others see the attacks as proof of “media bias.” The result is an explosion in NRA memberships.

The Daily Mail quoted Cleta Mitchell, a former NRA board member and former Oklahoma lawmaker, who said, “There is no one. NO ONE. Who joins the NRA for a discount on a rental car. You can rest assured that the NRA will not lose a single member as a result of this. If anything, it should spur people to join the NRA as a means of demonstrating that we who believe in the Second Amendment will not be bullied by these left wing multi-billion dollar corporations.”
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: WingNot on March 05, 2018, 09:35:06 pm
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“The gun lobby is very good at marketing themselves and guns in the wake of mass shootings,” said Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action. “They specialize in exploiting shooting tragedies. No, I’m not surprised [about memberships increasing] but at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter, because the vast majority of Americans support stronger gun laws and gun safety.”

Poor dumb misguided Ms Watts. 
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: driftdiver on March 05, 2018, 10:08:08 pm
They don't need marketing they have the dems to spur sales.
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 05, 2018, 11:50:08 pm
Dear Delta Airlines,

I am not a member of NRA so I can get discounts on your tickets.

Cyber Liberty
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 05, 2018, 11:52:14 pm
Poor dumb misguided Ms Watts.

Her nickname is "Five Watts."
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: WingNot on March 06, 2018, 12:07:06 am
Her nickname is "Five Watts."

That high? 
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 06, 2018, 12:17:09 am
That high?

Christmas Tree bulbs are the smallest I know.  Maybe they're four? :shrug:
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: WingNot on March 06, 2018, 01:32:29 am
Christmas Tree bulbs are the smallest I know.  Maybe they're four? :shrug:

You could be right.  I had to replace my in-door water/ice dispenser light and it was an 8 watt.
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: Elderberry on March 06, 2018, 01:54:46 am
Christmas Tree bulbs are the smallest I know.  Maybe they're four? :shrug:

Four? Still too high. How about #382 bulbs. They are only 1 watt. There were four in each push button on the old NASA Green Consoles. Those critters burned out about as fast as you could change them out. You would think at 1 watt they should last about forever.
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: txradioguy on March 06, 2018, 03:17:46 pm
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“They specialize in exploiting shooting tragedies.


Wow...a Bloomberg funded group that does nothing but exploit "shooting tragedies" saying that about the NRA?

Talk about no sense of self awareness.
Title: Re: National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bi
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 06, 2018, 03:42:27 pm
Four? Still too high. How about #382 bulbs. They are only 1 watt. There were four in each push button on the old NASA Green Consoles. Those critters burned out about as fast as you could change them out. You would think at 1 watt they should last about forever.

They had those crappy bulbs in the push-buttons in the radio stations at which I worked, too.