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DogPoundPup

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Mon Jun-30-08 06:34 PM
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NRA gathering ammo against Obama

Edited on Mon Jun-30-08 07:06 PM by DogPoundPup

The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s presidential campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.

“Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, could be taken away from us in the future,” Chris Cox, head of the NRA’s political arm, told Politico.

The politically powerful gun-rights group will split its message efforts between communicating with its 4 million members and the tens of millions more firearms owners spread across the country.

This fall, NRA members will get automated phone calls, mail pieces and pre-election editions of the group’s three magazines making the case against Obama. More broadly, the group will use an independent expenditure effort to hammer the Democratic nominee via TV, radio and newspaper ads in some of about 15 battleground states in the Midwest and Mountain West.

Read much more at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11452.html
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Gun-related suicides have outnumbered firearm homicides and accidents for 20 of the last 25 years
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jun/30/surprising-fact-half-of-gun-deaths-are-suicides/

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zanne

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Mon Jun-30-08 06:36 PM
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1. Good ole' gun fanatics at work. nt

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gateley

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Mon Jun-30-08 06:37 PM
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2. Brian Schweitzer for VP!

His definition of gun control: You control your gun, I'll control mine.

He'd help a lot with that voting bloc.

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IndianaJones

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Mon Jun-30-08 06:37 PM
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3. I like it. nt.

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