She discusses how the National Rifle Association began as a movement to support safe and responsible gun ownership and usage and then became a lobby to prevent any and all restrictions on the ownership and usage of any almost kind of weapon, however deadly, and how so many politicians now grovel before it.
Correspondent Amy Hoggart went to the NRA’s convention last weekend in Houston. Texas, just 300 miles away from the recent massacre in Uvalde, to talk to the attendees about the spate of mass shootings and she had to endure the usual evasive, obfuscatory, excuses from them as to why these repeated tragedies do not reveal what is so obvious to everyone else, that the US just has too many damn guns that serve no purpose than allow some murderers to kill large numbers of people in a very short time.
YEAH!
How sad that we NRA members, who simply want to own high-capacity firearms to defend our white children and our weak white wives from the hordes of blacks and browns, get blamed when other people with high-capacity firearms kill hordes of blacks and browns! IT IS SO UNFAIR!
… National Rifle Association began as a movement to support safe and responsible gun ownership …
Actually, it began as part of the US war machine, started by former Union Army officers who’d observed that farm-boy Confederate troops were much better shots than factory-worker Yankees and wanted to improve the process of eradication of western Native Americans.
But for a while, the NRA did function as a hunters’ training and safety program, before those blacks started getting uppity again…