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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you seen the new NRA AD? It's a declaration of war on liberals.
A chilling National Rifle Association ad gaining traction online appears to be 'an open call to violence'
A National Rifle Association ad that has gained traction on social media this month urges Americans to join "freedom's safest place" as protesters and members of the "resistance" movement who oppose Donald Trump's presidency "smash windows, burn cars," and "terrorize the law-abiding."
The one-minute ad features footage of protesters and marches overlayed with commentary by the conservative media personality and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch.
Loesch describes anti-Trump protests as "madness" and terror that "shut down interstates and airports" and warrant a heavy-handed police response.
Here's the full transcript:
"They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance.
"All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia. To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness.
"And when that happens, they'll use it as an excuse for their outrage. The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. I'm the National Rifle Association of America, and I'm freedom's safest place."
http://www.businessinsider.com/national-rifle-association-ad-call-to-violence-2017-6
pangaia
(24,324 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I have said for years that the NRA is a right wing terrorist front.
This kind of anti-american, anti-free speech call to violence against the left by the NRA proves me right!
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)at his rallies. He's trying to build himself an army.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)A brownshirt army.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)I suppose this is the natural evolution of that movement...this is some scary shit. I own guns, I use them responsibly, I keep them in a safe that can only be accessed by myself, but this shit is just pure, unadulterated, propaganda bullshit intended to incite violence. Every reasonable gun owner...hell, every reasonable American should be disavowing this insanity.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)And a call to "cut down the tall trees".
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)And Dana will find that out when someone takes her up on her call to start shooting liberals, and the family of the person who her words got killed is awarded her house in the subsequent lawsuit.
tritsofme
(17,399 posts)Scoopster
(423 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)Folks, you know how to report videos?
Do it, please. We can take this down.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Don't go there if you have high blood pressure.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Who is the shill? Glad to say I don't know who she is
hurple
(1,306 posts)Time for them to be labelled such, and treated accordingly.
Mosby
(16,350 posts)They could lose their tax exempt status.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)you might want to be careful who you go picking fights with.
Just saying, NRA.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)Nt
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)can't be far off now.
Reichstag fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
HAB911
(8,912 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,574 posts)Pure and simple.
spanone
(135,873 posts)FUCK THE NRA
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)former Breitbart editor
hack89
(39,171 posts)I think they are in for a big surprise.
KT2000
(20,587 posts)this is meant to incite violence and some will follow. I guess this will be played out until it ends in total chaos. That is what they want.
Permanut
(5,637 posts)that the NRA represents only 7% of gun owners. Not minimizing the potential impact of this terrorist group; they have plenty of members to cause major violence. They always imply, though, that they represent the majority of gun owners.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)There's no chance at all that they will settle down and be reasonable.
Cha
(297,655 posts)assholes.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Threatening "second amendment remedies" against people they disagree with.
Dunno how the gun lobby gets away with this, seems like they've gone too far.
haele
(12,676 posts)Doesn't matter if *anyone* in the crowd is armed or not. All s/he needs is surprise and five minutes of panicked crowd movement to obscure what's happening to anyone who might want to "defend" anything.
Pulse Nightclub showed us it can happen here. And the NRA wants open war on Liberals or anyone who can threaten their lobbyist pocketbooks or looks sideways at the bullies and cowards they profit off of. Social Chaos makes armament manufactures very, very wealthy indeed.
Haele
Alea
(706 posts)I don't support the NRA but I also don't see a call to violence. Even the whole sentence, fight the violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. Still basically says fight lies with truth.
Are you afraid nutjobs will see it differently?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Using language and other forms of communication to incite random acts of violence that are "statistically predictable but individually unpredictable." Its not a legal term, but it can help us understand just how dangerous Trumps statements are:
Let's break that down in the context of what Trump said. Predicting any one particular individual following his call to use violence against Clinton or her judges is statistically impossible. But we can predict that there could be a presently unknown lone wolf who hears his call and takes action in the future.
Stated differently: Trump puts out the dog whistle knowing that some dog will hear it, even though he doesn't know which dog."
This is basically what the NRA is doing here. They are putting out the dog whistle and some dog, perhaps many will hear it and act. People are going to die because of this. I guarantee it.
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)this sounds like just the tact the nra would take.
The 'They're coming to take your guns, so you had better arm yourself before guns are illegal.' meme has reached it's due date.
So now it's 'protect yourself from the out of control vicious liberals who are out to get any trump* supporters.'
hunter
(38,326 posts)And if things ever go entirely to hell, I'm pretty talented with guns too. I've eaten game I've shot. Didn't like it much, which is why I'm now mostly vegetarian, but I'll own it.
Your radical left wing environmentalist nightmare.
Lucky for you, I'll whip out my camera first and post your bullshit on the internet to mock.
In witness.
Learned that when my Catholic pacifist mom was a Jehovah's Witness, and then we were Quaker. I would have been Conscientious Objector had the Vietnam war continued. We were living in Europe at the time, just in case, I suspect... the war ended, we came home.
I'm born of a long line of Christian pacifists, that's how a many of my ancestors ended up in the U.S.A. Wild West wilderness. Pacifists by necessity, not by any natural inclination. The Berserker genes are strong. I've got a knife scar on my arm. That guy lost, even though I was unarmed and not looking for a fight, just trying to deescalate a situation not of my making. (But I am not an innocent person, I've had my moments being the belligerent asshole.)
One of my grandfathers refused to take up arms in World War II. He probably did some damage to Axis powers building and repairing ships for the Merchant Marine. He wouldn't touch guns.
My other grandpa, you don't even want to know, he was fucking Doogie Howser Starship Troopers Army Air Force officer. He only wanted to fly, like Jimmy Stewart but the Army Air Force had other plans for him. He retired from the Air Force when the war was over, and then again as an Apollo Project engineer. Bits of metal my grandpa made are on the moon and in the Smithsonian. He never said how he became a wizard of exotic metals, and he never talked about the war.
My dad, and my wife's dad, were Radar O'Reily types. My wife's dad got to see a nuclear explosion up close from a hole in the ground in the Nevada Desert, marching to ground zero while stuff was still burning. The radioactive fallout didn't kill him, but many of his comrades were not so lucky.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)The NRA has become an Anti-American organization. They are not pro-gun rights. They are anti-democracy.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Of everything, all the time. They've apparently got no other emotion. Even the stuff they claim to value -- e.g. "tradition" -- is really just a fear of losing whatever that particular tradition actually means to them.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)NRA ad multiple times and yammered on about how horrible Leftists were targeting her. She is in the worst circle of hatefulness, yet she appears on respectable venues like with Anderson COOPER and "behaves" as though she is an objective commentator.
ConnorMarc
(653 posts)Not to mention politically.
And her career seems to be swirling around the drain as well.
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