Remember This Week: It’s the Beginning of the End of the NRA’s Reign of Terror

[WingNot]

The Daily Beast thinks they are on to something.   Poor Dumb bastards.


Yes, it’s been said before, and no, it won’t happen fast. But this time it really is different. And the Parkland Kids are leading the charge.
Joy-Ann Reid

02.23.18 1:40 PM ET
Shun the NRA. Shun the assault weapons manufacturers. Shame and vote out the politicians who take their money and do their bidding. That’s the strategy that activists for firearms sanity have finally seized on, after decades of losing to the most bloodthirsty lobby in America.

The rise of the Parkland students, and their #NeverAgain movement following the slaughter of 17 of their classmates and teachers by a 19-year-old former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County Florida, presents the most existential threat to the gun lobby in my lifetime. These kids, aged 15 to 18, have spoken more clearly, more forcefully, and more effectively than any activists or politicians, who for decades have pleaded for laws prohibiting the amassing of personal military-style arsenals by American gun fetishists.

What these young people have is special. They are too hurt and shocked and angry to be told to calm down. They are too social-media savvy to be fazed by bots and trolls and insane conspiracy theories. They were born in the post-9/11 age and are too fearless to be made to back down by bullies like the NRA’s resident Cruella de Ville Dana Loesch and her fellow travelers on the right. And they can easily spot the BS of a president, who has to hold a palm card to remind him to care when he speaks to them about their terrifying experiences. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/remember-this-week-its-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nras-reign-of-terror

[edpc]

What these young people have is special. They are too hurt and shocked and angry to be told to calm down. They are too social-media savvy to be fazed by bots and trolls and insane conspiracy theories. They were born in the post-9/11 age and are too fearless to be made to back down by bullies like the NRA’s resident Cruella de Ville Dana Loesch and her fellow travelers on the right. And they can easily spot the BS of a president, who has to hold a palm card to remind him to care when he speaks to them about their terrifying experiences. 

Yet, they’ve not taken their pitchfork and torches act down to the sheriff’s office and home of the retired deputy where the real blame squarely falls.  They’re not as smart as the author thinks.

[Suppressed]

Yet, they’ve not taken their pitchfork and torches act down to the sheriff’s office and home of the retired deputy where the real blame squarely falls.  They’re not as smart as the author thinks.

Trouble is, the right is saying, "The FBI and sheriff failed!"

And the left is saying, "The FBI and sheriff failed!  That's why we can't rely on that...we must get rid of the guns!"

The right needs to be changing the narrative to the next logical step instead of getting suckered: "That's why we can't rely on the government and need inherent self-defense!"

[LMAO]

I’ve been hearing “this is the end of the NRA” since the mid 1970’s


And I’m not even a member

[Free Vulcan]

Listening to some Spawn of Stalin talk about the NRA reign of terror is rich irony.

[WingNot]

Listening to some Spawn of Stalin talk about the NRA reign of terror is rich irony.

But wait there is more..... In a hilarious twist of fate,  Joy Ann Reid, who has repeatedly called out Russian election meddling, was the favorite pundit of the Russian trolls indicted by Robert Mueller. Reid, who hosts a weekend show on the MSNBC network, received the most retweets of any pundit from the Russian troll farm!

[TomSea]

I’ve been hearing “this is the end of the NRA” since the mid 1970’s


And I’m not even a member

I use to see those bumper stickers on cars, trucks, "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". I didn't have much of a grasp what the debate was back then, mid '70s.

[txradioguy]

I’ve been hearing “this is the end of the NRA” since the mid 1970’s


And I’m not even a member

Somehow the Libs think that a bank in Nebraska not offering an NRA logoed credit card and Enterprise Rental Car group dropping their discount for NRA members some how spells the end of the organization.

Idiots.

[LMAO]

I use to see those bumper stickers on cars, trucks, "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". I didn't have much of a grasp what the debate was back then, mid '70s.

The “scary” guns were handguns

[XenaLee]

The Daily Beast thinks they are on to something.   Poor Dumb bastards.


Yes, it’s been said before, and no, it won’t happen fast. But this time it really is different. And the Parkland Kids are leading the charge.
Joy-Ann Reid

02.23.18 1:40 PM ET
Shun the NRA. Shun the assault weapons manufacturers. Shame and vote out the politicians who take their money and do their bidding. That’s the strategy that activists for firearms sanity have finally seized on, after decades of losing to the most bloodthirsty lobby in America.

The rise of the Parkland students, and their #NeverAgain movement following the slaughter of 17 of their classmates and teachers by a 19-year-old former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County Florida, presents the most existential threat to the gun lobby in my lifetime. These kids, aged 15 to 18, have spoken more clearly, more forcefully, and more effectively than any activists or politicians, who for decades have pleaded for laws prohibiting the amassing of personal military-style arsenals by American gun fetishists.

What these young people have is special. They are too hurt and shocked and angry to be told to calm down. They are too social-media savvy to be fazed by bots and trolls and insane conspiracy theories. They were born in the post-9/11 age and are too fearless to be made to back down by bullies like the NRA’s resident Cruella de Ville Dana Loesch and her fellow travelers on the right. And they can easily spot the BS of a president, who has to hold a palm card to remind him to care when he speaks to them about their terrifying experiences. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/remember-this-week-its-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-nras-reign-of-terror

Social-media savvy?  Since when is that a positive qualification for ANYthing?  From my perspective, they are brain-washed, leftist-indoctrinated liberals-in-the-making that know so damned much that just isn't so.    They are easily manipulated and easily led.  And they are being led and used by the radical left.  Anyone painting that as a good thing is stuckonstupid and/or also has a leftist agenda.

[LMAO]

I suspect the reality will be , with history as a guide, increase in NRA membership.

The left has been poor at predictions on much of anything. How many times have they predicted “the end of Limbaugh” the last 20 some years?