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Pedal Steel Like You've Never Seen It Before: Roosevelt Collier, "Supernatural Encounters"

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Jay C2/24/2018 9:20:45 am PST

re: #504 ObserverArt

They currently claim 5 million…but you point stands.

I mentioned this the other day. How can so many politicians be so in bed with a lobby group that represents so few??? And some claim that overall it isn’t really all about the money. So what is it?

I’m thinking it is a smoke and mirrors organization that also has the loudest membership ever and a controlling body that makes scary noises that politicians fear more than staring down the barrel of an NRA gun.

Not only are they getting beat badly about the head by the students…we may be learning they are nothing more than a fake facade of the gun industry and Wayne LaPierre is the “Great Wizard” hiding behind the curtains of the Big Scare Machine they have created.

I think you’re right here, and fervently hope you are: if something positive has to come out of the Parkland tragedy, puncturing a few holes in the NRA’s self-generated image as an Unstoppable Invincible Lobby is a good one as any. That the NRA is, to a large extent, a “fake facade of the gun industry” has been known for years, despite all the star-spangled “patriotic” hoopla they wrap their advocacy in.They may not be entirely a paper tiger, but they ARE a well-financed one: their Achilles heel, though is that, big as they are, they can’t bankroll everybody : well, not every Republican, anyway: like most leveraged entities (say, a Trump RE deal), they can get away with a lot of crap as long as the facade holds up: but once it starts to crumble….