re: #228 A Mom Anon

The numbers are on our side, they’re going to have to either adapt or go extinct. The NRA could save itself (and has had more than enough time to do so) by going back to it’s roots- education, safety and being on the side of sensible gun regulation. They chose to become a radical organization and a lobby shop for gun and ammo manufacturers. Oh well. Buh-bye.

True, the NRA has been caught flat-footed (finally, for once!) on the wrong side of the PR of the “gun issue”: being owned - in public media - by a bunch of high-school kids whose message inspired a couple of million people to come out and march nationwide can’t have done their image too much good. Especially as their themes for “counterattacks” are finally losing their efficacy (one sincerely hopes). Outside of insults, name-calling, and wacky conspiracy-theory-mongering on social media and in the “press” (a la Jack Posobiec’s gibberings above), their main avenue of riposte boils down, eventually, to threats of violence in defense of their “rights”. Threats which so far, neither the NRA or even the more fervent gunhumpers seem willing to carry through on. Outside of nasty Tweets, of course….

I think what must be giving Wayne LaPierre and creatures the real willies, though, is the universal subtext of the MFOL people: that they are also voters, and will likely vent their outrage at the ballot box. The NRA’s main line of “defense” is, and has been for decades, the vast amounts of money and advertising they are willing to throw at sympathetic politicians (and just as importantly, against those deemed unsympathetic); if that line fails in November, well, good: as in “good riddance”…