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climber3986

(107 posts)
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:47 PM Dec 2015

INSANE advertisement. The NRA goes full 'looney dictator from half life 2' in latest video.

Watch this video first (start at 40 seconds)

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then watch this



The similarities are jaw dropping, if you haven't played half life 2, the first video is a compilation of audio segments from random parts of the game from the games antagonist fascist dictator who you eventually topple. The NRA uses the exact same 'it's life or death we need to fight these dangerous fascists' mannerisms against Obama / democrats / media that the fascist leader uses against you as the freedom fighter / protagonist in the game half life 2. This similarity is almost frightening. I swear you cant make this stuff up.
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INSANE advertisement. The NRA goes full 'looney dictator from half life 2' in latest video. (Original Post) climber3986 Dec 2015 OP
The NRA deathrind Dec 2015 #1
Well before the 1970s there wasn't much federal gun control. aikoaiko Dec 2015 #7
I would love to hear our resident DU gun rights advocates defend the NRA on this one CajunBlazer Dec 2015 #2
I'm betting they will totally ignore this thread and...... CajunBlazer Dec 2015 #3
I just had one admit that the 2nd Amendment is there to help citizens rebel against the government.. Humanist_Activist Dec 2015 #4
Not me SwankyXomb Dec 2015 #5
does this mean Obama is actually Gordon Freeman? climber3986 Dec 2015 #6
Ok I'll bite. aikoaiko Dec 2015 #8
Thas's really kind of sad when you think about it? CajunBlazer Dec 2015 #9
The most draw dropping thing is the whole damn video is an ad for Kimber Firearms 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #10

deathrind

(1,786 posts)
1. The NRA
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 06:42 PM
Dec 2015

Used to actually be a good thing but that all changed.

"Enter the modern National Rifle Association. Before the nineteen-seventies, the N.R.A. had been devoted mostly to non-political issues, like gun safety. But a coup d’état at the group’s annual convention in 1977 brought a group of committed political conservatives to power—as part of the leading edge of the new, more rightward-leaning Republican Party. (Jill Lepore recounted this history in a recent piece for The New Yorker.) The new group pushed for a novel interpretation of the Second Amendment, one that gave individuals, not just militias, the right to bear arms. It was an uphill struggle. At first, their views were widely scorned. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who was no liberal, mocked the individual-rights theory of the amendment as “a fraud.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/so-you-think-you-know-the-second-amendment

aikoaiko

(34,172 posts)
7. Well before the 1970s there wasn't much federal gun control.
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 01:35 AM
Dec 2015

The politicalization of the NRA corresponded with the politicalization of gun control. In 1968 the Gun Control Act changed the landscape forever.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
2. I would love to hear our resident DU gun rights advocates defend the NRA on this one
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:10 PM
Dec 2015

Dana Loesch is not only a certified bitch, she is paid by the NRA to lie. Well, maybe not, but if she believe that all of that trash, she is psychotic and is in serious need of help.

I have never seen such a nasty attack. It is so over the top that it is unbelievable by all but the most most loony tunes gun rights advocates.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
3. I'm betting they will totally ignore this thread and......
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:12 PM
Dec 2015

....and stay as far away from it as possible. And I wouldn't blame them.

 

Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
4. I just had one admit that the 2nd Amendment is there to help citizens rebel against the government..
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:17 PM
Dec 2015

crazy as you can get when it comes to arguments.

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)
5. Not me
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:46 PM
Dec 2015

I've got most of our Gun Murder Apologists on ignore, and it would just be the same talking points anyway.

aikoaiko

(34,172 posts)
8. Ok I'll bite.
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 01:41 AM
Dec 2015

I'm NRA and I hate stuff like that. I couldnt watch but a little bit.

The NRA's communications are filled lies, exagerations, and hyperbole. And I hate it.

Sadly it works or at least some of it does.

I thought that The NRAs response to Sandy Hook was going the the end of WLP and extreme rhetoric but after defeating the massive push for gun control WLP is more powerful than ever.
 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
10. The most draw dropping thing is the whole damn video is an ad for Kimber Firearms
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 01:48 AM
Dec 2015
...this is the first time I've seen a firearms company blatantly cross over into politics. They usually try to remain neutral.




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