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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:09 PM Feb 2018

The NRA Is a Terrorist Organization

The NRA Is a Terrorist Organization
Michael Harriot Today 2:07pm

Media outlets and politicians in mourning have all offered thoughts, prayers and not much else for the most recent mass shooting in Columbine, Colo.; Las Vegas; Sutherland Springs, Texas; Parkland, Fla. (insert next city here). Very few have called it a terrorism-related incident.

The latest tragedy is directly related to our government’s unwillingness to create and enforce commonsense gun laws, fueled by a criminal cabal that bribes lawmakers with barrels of cash and knowingly promotes and participates in a plot that results in the deaths of seven children every day.

The National Rifle Association kills people.

https://www.theroot.com/the-nra-is-a-terrorist-organization-1823042189
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The NRA Is a Terrorist Organization (Original Post) workinclasszero Feb 2018 OP
It surely is. XRubicon Feb 2018 #1
...funded by the Russian mob. poboy2 Feb 2018 #2
BINGO workinclasszero Feb 2018 #3
Thanks for adding this... XRubicon Feb 2018 #7
and there are rumblings of foreign funding for the NRA. n/t Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #4
Foreign funding? XRubicon Feb 2018 #10
Not proven yet, Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #11
Thanks for the info XRubicon Feb 2018 #13
Their charter is to promote and sell more guns on behalf of manufacturers. C_U_L8R Feb 2018 #5
This... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #6
Only one way we will ever stop the slaughter of school kids and other innocent people workinclasszero Feb 2018 #8
The only way is right. XRubicon Feb 2018 #9
We can stop this horror starting with the fall elections and a huge blue wave workinclasszero Feb 2018 #14
I am ready to do my part. XRubicon Feb 2018 #15
The National Rifle Association kills people. XRubicon Feb 2018 #12
Mr Wayne bdamomma Feb 2018 #16
The worlds largest. gibraltar72 Feb 2018 #17

Yonnie3

(17,486 posts)
11. Not proven yet,
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:54 PM
Feb 2018

but ...

I wouldn't be sad if the election interference takes down the NRA along with (insert long list here)

I wasn't sure if you were asking about the rumors or not but here is a bit about it. From PBS.


Senator seeks documents on Russia money links to the NRA

Feb 2, 2018

WASHINGTON — A top Democrat is seeking documents from the National Rifle Association and the Treasury Department following reports of an FBI investigation into whether a Russian central banker funneled money to the group during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In letters sent to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the NRA on Friday, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon requested any documents showing financial links between Russia and the gun lobbying organization.

News reports last month said the FBI is investigating contact between Alexander Torshin, who is the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, and the NRA. Wyden is ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, as well as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting a probe into Russia election meddling.

“The national security as well as legal implications of these reports make it imperative that Congress conduct a thorough investigation,” Wyden wrote in his letter to Mnuchin.

...


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senator-seeks-documents-on-russia-money-links-to-the-nra

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)
5. Their charter is to promote and sell more guns on behalf of manufacturers.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:16 PM
Feb 2018

It's not some chummy club of gun collectors. It is a ghoulish bloody enterprise that capitalizes on fear and murder and profits. If the USA won't outlaw them, then the international courts should categorize them as the terrorist organization they are. These death merchants should be in chains, for the greater good and safety of us all.

Wounded Bear

(58,717 posts)
6. This...
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:18 PM
Feb 2018

they are the penultimate capitalist organization, right up there with drug lords and human traffickers.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
8. Only one way we will ever stop the slaughter of school kids and other innocent people
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:24 PM
Feb 2018

in this blood soaked country.

Democrats elected en masse and the DEATH of the Russian directed republican party!!!!

That is the one and only way!

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
14. We can stop this horror starting with the fall elections and a huge blue wave
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:57 PM
Feb 2018

I shudder to think how many more school kids and other innocent Americans will be laid out in their graves by that time, mass murdered by crazed gunmen with AR-15's and other military gear.

We can do nothing till then, Shitler's party and the NRA will see to that!

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