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kpete

(71,997 posts) Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:19 PM Jul 2012

NRA is all about hunting-but not forest creatures anymore. The NRA is about hunting PEOPLE!!!

Instructors not only teach firearms usage, care, and cleaning, but can coach students and other persons and help them develop Marksmanship skills. In order to help encourage firearms practice, the NRA has a Marksmanship Qualification Program. This program is divided into several disciplines and each discipline has multiple awards that can be obtained. The awards are offered for successfully completing each in a series progressively more difficult courses of fire. All of these awards, except Distinguished Expert, are on the honor system. An NRA certified coach or certified instructor must witness the participant successfully complete the course of for this more prestigious of awards. The awards are provided in the form of "rockers" which are typically sewn on below a large round discipline-specific patch. The various awards are as follows:
* Basic Practical
* Pro-Marksman
* Marksman
* Marksman First Class
* Sharpshooter; Bars 1–9
* Expert
* Distinguished Expert

OK. Again, let's just pretend that we're talking about deer here. Poor, sad little Bambi, and Bambi's mom. And Thumper. And all of Snow White's creatures, Disney movies galore, with all the disgustingly cute animals who, unfortunately, taste like chicken to carnivores, and people hunt to put food on the table, and blah blah blah.

Do you really believe that?

Yeah, me neither because SOME MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE SHOT UP 70, 70!, PEOPLE IN A MOVIE THEATER NOT TWO MILES FROM MY GODDAMNED HOUSE!

The NRA is all about hunting these days, sure, but not forest creatures anymore. The NRA is about hunting people. The NRA is about fear of The Other. The NRA is comprised of a bunch of white bullies who are totally pissed that the world is changing, and they can't do a fucking thing to stop it. They want 2012 to resemble 1955, because now? The progress has been too much, see. All the gays and the blacks and the science and the cell phones and Ellen and that stupid rap music and OMG WOMEN ARE WEARING PANTS NOW! PANTS!

great ranting continued:
TUE JUL 24, 2012 AT 08:31 AM PDT
The NRA Can Suck It.
by Colorado is the Shiznit
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/24/1113180/-The-NRA-Can-Suck-It

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NRA is all about hunting-but not forest creatures anymore. The NRA is about hunting PEOPLE!!! (Original Post) kpete Jul 2012 OP

the seem to love killing things samsingh Jul 2012 #1

So I'm curious what awful sin you did for God to have damned your house? Lionessa Jul 2012 #2

Accident vs. intentional ? That's not selective. russspeakeasy Jul 2012 #3

Sorry but when you put 23 people in a vehicle meant for under a dozen, that's seems somewhat Lionessa Jul 2012 #5

oh yeah I suppose this shooting SunsetDreams Jul 2012 #4

Someone's stupidity caused it by putting 23 people in the vehicle, how is that not homicide. Lionessa Jul 2012 #6

Link please nt SunsetDreams Jul 2012 #8

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/texas-truck-crash_n_1693815.html Lionessa Jul 2012 #10

So it wasn't 63 people SunsetDreams Jul 2012 #12

Your statement is ridiculous...you will say and do anything to defend movonne Jul 2012 #14

Because we know it can't possibly be for target shooting. hack89 Jul 2012 #7

What kind of targets are the shooting at? ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #9

I recommend you not join the NRA. ileus Jul 2012 #11

This vilification is ridiculous and is getting out of control. Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #13

The NRA ran the US Olympic shooting program for decades hack89 Jul 2012 #15

The Bloodlust Club Blue Owl Jul 2012 #16

Exactly gopiscrap Jul 2012 #17

samsingh

(17,599 posts)

1. the seem to love killing things

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:22 PM

Jul 2012

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

2. So I'm curious what awful sin you did for God to have damned your house?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:27 PM

Jul 2012

/snark

And yet just about as many died and were hurt in a bus accident in TX, and that doesn't seem to outrage anyone. Selective outrage is getting pretty hysterical.

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)

3. Accident vs. intentional ? That's not selective.

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:31 PM

Jul 2012

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

5. Sorry but when you put 23 people in a vehicle meant for under a dozen, that's seems somewhat

Reply to russspeakeasy (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:35 PM

Jul 2012

intentionally accidental.

SunsetDreams

(8,571 posts)

4. oh yeah I suppose this shooting

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:33 PM

Jul 2012

was an accident

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

6. Someone's stupidity caused it by putting 23 people in the vehicle, how is that not homicide.

Reply to SunsetDreams (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:36 PM

Jul 2012

Vehicular, but still homicide.

SunsetDreams

(8,571 posts)

8. Link please nt

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:41 PM

Jul 2012

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

10. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/texas-truck-crash_n_1693815.html

Reply to SunsetDreams (Reply #8)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:48 PM

Jul 2012

SunsetDreams

(8,571 posts)

12. So it wasn't 63 people

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #10)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:01 PM

Jul 2012

and it wasn't even

And yet just about as many died and were hurt in a bus accident in TX, and that doesn't seem to outrage anyone. Selective outrage is getting pretty hysterical.

and it wasn't even a bus.

Those people were in the cab and the bed according to the article. It doesn't say how many were in the front or back. It was 23 people in total. In a ford F-250 truck, not a bus. Does that amount to stupidity? perhaps. Did the truck driver set out to kill all those people? there is no evidence of that.

You want to compare that to:

People in a movie theater 70 people who were shot or killed to your car accident. 70 people who were shot with brutal calculation and intent to cause as many fatalities as possible. A shooter who had been planning this for months, stockpiling weapons, body armor, ammunition, and accessories.

Please.

Edit: thank you for clarifying that it was 23 people involved, not 63 after you provided that link

movonne

(9,623 posts)

14. Your statement is ridiculous...you will say and do anything to defend

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:17 PM

Jul 2012

your guns...how much pleasure do they give you???

hack89

(39,171 posts)

7. Because we know it can't possibly be for target shooting.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:38 PM

Jul 2012

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)

9. What kind of targets are the shooting at?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:43 PM

Jul 2012

Women, GLBTs, Black, Jews, zombies?

ileus

(15,396 posts)

11. I recommend you not join the NRA.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:00 PM

Jul 2012

Baitball Blogger

(46,740 posts)

13. This vilification is ridiculous and is getting out of control.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:01 PM

Jul 2012

The targets are bulls eyes a littler larger than a fifty cent piece. There's a series of them on paper and they're placed at 50 yards, and move back to 100 yards, if I recall. You earn bars for acquiring the necessary points.