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struggle4progress

(118,316 posts)
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 08:37 PM Feb 2013

The NRA's enemies list:

http://nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=15

The NRA's Top 10 Enemies
Sunday, 03 February 2013 10:24
By Steven Hsieh, AlterNet | Report

... Medical-related organizations make up a healthy portion of the NRA’s list. The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, National Spinal Cord Injury Association and many more groups, for some reason, all support gun control legislation ...

In 2010, after 15 people were shot in as many hours in Chicago’s South Side, the poet Maya Angelou had the nerve to suggest that the widespread availability of guns contributes to gun violence ...

Gun nuts claim women need high-power assault rifles to protect themselves from dangerous men. But, statistics tell a different story. As Slate’s Amanda Marcotte reported, “the Harvard Injury Control has found that states with more guns have more female violent deaths.” ...

The NRA also hates God. Church of the Brethren, the Congress of National Black Churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and many more all get a spot on their “enemies” list ...

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14310-the-nras-top-10-enemies
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The NRA's enemies list: (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2013 OP
Don't forget they hate us in the Episcopal Church as well. hrmjustin Feb 2013 #1
"Episcopal Church-Washington Office" is on the enemies list I posted struggle4progress Feb 2013 #2
Thanks my friend! hrmjustin Feb 2013 #3
God & the nra jimmy the one Feb 2013 #4
I'd love to start a postcard drive davidpdx Feb 2013 #5
Shouldn't LaPierre be on that list too? LiberalFighter Feb 2013 #6

jimmy the one

(2,708 posts)
4. God & the nra
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 11:24 PM
Feb 2013
The NRA also hates God. Church of the Brethren, the Congress of National Black Churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and many more all get a spot on their

Well, too subjective S4Progress, the nra will claim 'God' on their side;

So I have to disagree with the nra hating god, it's more like they think god is on their side. Other things you say I agree with.
.. and name some 'friends of nra', you will find it hard to do.
Ducks Unlimited, is about the only thing I could find....
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