I don’t even mind entertaining the possibility of banning all guns so long as you can guarantee for me that it won’t just be law-abiding citizens who won’t have access to guns.
I agree that guns have changed and the technology makes it scarier. I’m not against all forms of gun legislation. Semi-automatics shoot bullets as fast as you can pull the trigger and as many bullets as can fit into a clip. Our Founding Fathers used the state of the art weapon at the time. Congress isn’t beholden to the NRA - it’s beholden to its own constituents, many of whom support the NRA’s belief system as a general matter. Most gun-owners, even if they aren’t members, see the NRA as a vital organization in defending their Second Amendment rights. The NRA, in reality, is a powerful lobbying organization because a huge number of Americans agree with their agenda. They don’t go around offering cash in briefcases in order to convince those who disagree to go along with their agenda. They pick the candidates who support their agenda and support them. There’s a reason the NRA supports pro-gun candidates and Planned Parenthood supports pro-abortion candidates. The NRA isn’t paying politicians off to change their positions anymore than Planned Parenthood is doing so. Which brings us to the second question: is the NRA actually even “buying” anyone? The answer here is obviously no.
In other words, lots of groups spend lots of money - but the notion that the NRA is disproportionately “buying” politicians is asinine. NextGen Climate Action, a leftist group pushing climate change legislation, spent $22.9 million. EMILY’s List, another abortion group, spent $33.2 million on politics in 2016. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion mill, spent $33.9 million on outside spending from the 2012 through 2016 election cycles, according to OpenSecrets. That’s not unusual: they also spent $2.2 billion on political activities in 20, and $1.69 billion in 2012. Let’s look at some other political actors, by way of contrast.Īccording to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, labor unions spent $1.713 billion on political activities and lobbying for the 2016 election cycle alone. The NRA spends far more in presidential years than non-presidential years - according to OpenSecrets, the NRA spent some $54.4 million in 2016 on politics. That’s a grand total of $203.2 million on political activities over 18 years, or approximately $22.6 million per 2-year election cycle.
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The NRA also spends money on “outside expenditures,” meaning ads they cut themselves, for example, in the amount of $144.3 million, plus another $45.9 million on lobbying. On the first question, between 19, the NRA spent approximately $13 million on all candidates, parties, and leadership political action committees, according to the Left’s favorite fact-checker, Politifact. There are two real questions to be answered in answering that one: first, does the NRA really spend an outsized amount of money on politics? Second, as a general matter, do outside organizations “buy” the support of politicians, or do they simply support politicians with whom they agree? So the claim is that these politicians are “bought off” by the NRA. Here’s what the right means when we say quit politicizing the deaths:
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What is bizarre, is that it is the pc police who see fit to ban Harper Lee’s book- not conservatives and they are also the ones who wish to ban the AR-15 and guns in general. Initial claim seemed to be made by an attention seeker. Of course, it must be either/or (nevermind the veracity of the claim “29”):īecause Nikolas Cruz qualifies as a “well-regulated militia” and let’s paste it atop a portrait of George Washington just because:Ĭruz is not a member of a white supremacist group. Here’s a counter-meme to reveal the glaring idiocy: It did not take long for the race hustlers to push this one: I had intended to post this at the end of the weekend of the shooting but was a lazy blogger. Below is a collection of some of the dumbest for your painful viewing “pleasure”. In wake of the shootings, social media was like an ant hill that had been kicked over, with the anti-gun nuts going ballistic (as they always do), lamenting about AR-15s, gun violence, politicians “bought” off by the NRA, ridiculing “thoughts and prayers”, and bringing out their keyboard pitchfork and torches.Īlong with my newsfeed blowing up on Facebook, came a slew of stupid memes. Today, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and students from all across the States are participating in a walkout as an act of protest against gun violence, for “nothing being done” and as an act of “support” for the 17 killed. So a month ago on February 14th was the Parkland shooting.