Comments on: National Rifle Association padding membership claims while hiding losses

By: Capitol Hill Blue

Capitol Hill Blue — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:21:07 +0000

Tone down the attacks.

By: woody188

woody188 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:49:50 +0000

If you could cite any statements to back up your “facts” I assume you would have?

Your post is the first racist statement I’ve read on the gun control issue. The mirror never lies.

I don’t agree with the NRA on a number of issues, but racist attacks like from Bill above have no place in civil discourse.

By: Dudes go to the capital, take their guns - Snarkistan, snark without borders

Dudes go to the capital, take their guns - Snarkistan, snark without borders — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:05:49 +0000

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By: Bill Cravener

Bill Cravener — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:07:46 +0000

Fact is the NRA and its operatives are reacting to US gun tragedies by employing a tried and true strategy and that is race baiting, fear mongering and subversive innuendo in an attempt to halt any proposed gun control laws on white men like themselves.

By attempting to change the focus of this nations gun tragedies and any gun debate the sick minds of the NRA and its operatives hope to shift US lawmakers’ attention onto America’s minorities who live in urban areas in a classic case of scapegoating. The NRA has indeed become a disgusting association of scum bags!

By: woody188

woody188 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:36:53 +0000

Here is a link to the crime LaPierre referenced. I’d cite the individual articles, but we are only allowed one link per post.

HuffPo: Hurricane Sandy Looting, Fights Plague South Brooklyn

Fox News: Price gouging, looting and rage: Superstorm Sandy brings out the worst in some

NY Daily News: Queens residents arm themselves in the post-storm blackout from looters

We know looting occurred and police were warning people not to stay out after dark for fear of being robbed, but it is very hard to find any reports of the amount of looting and lawlessness.

If one looks close, one can also see the NY Daily News article originally published February 14th by Corky Siemaszko and others that Mr. Dawkins failed to cite as the source of most of his quotes for this article.

My favorite paragraph from that article:

City officials dismissed that claim as more NRA nonsense and said there were plenty of armed National Guardsmen in the city in the aftermath of Sandy.

See the doublethink? Guns can’t protect you, yet it takes ARMED National Guardsmen to protect you. SIGH…

Take the time to read the comments at the bottom of that article as well. My favs:

Hmmm, well I guess the pictures of the homeowner with the assault weapon and machette and the Headline “I will shoot you” and the Big Signs on the front lawns that read “Looters Beware” were figments of the newspaper readers imaginations……..

“There was a cop on every corner.”

His store was looted.

Your store must be pretty far from the corner.

Aren’t you supposed to be a NY Newspaper and you don’t know businesses were Looted in Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy?
Residents in South Beach Staten Island couldn’t leave their homes to go to Aid Centers for supplies because Roving Bands of Thugs from the projects were Looting their empty homes. In Far Rockaway looting was also taking place until residents guarded their property with their legal firearms. Don’t Try to use “revisionist ” history to change the facts.

Can’t make this stuff up!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:17:07 +0000

My father in law is a proud new member. He displays his magnet on his SUV. Lives in town and has never hunted in 32 years of me knowing him. I worked nights years ago and my wife thought she heard something so she called him. He gets out of his car shooting his pistol in the air. On Christmas day he pulls his pistol out waving it every which way with the whole family in the room and bragging what he would do if someone came up on his deck.

By: Bill Cravener

Bill Cravener — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:56:39 +0000

I would like to add to my above post that I have been a game hunter for over fifty years and remember when the NRA stood for conservation and marksmanship but the fact is since the late 1970′s the NRA has undergone a sickness of greed and power now controlled by the gun manufactures.

The NRA continually preaches to their member’s ad-nauseum that their Second Amendment rights are being taken away. What nonsense. The day has come where the true nature of this extremist group has been shown as they truly are and that is to say worthless scum!

By: Capitol Hill Blue

Capitol Hill Blue — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:35:45 +0000

A number of comments containing obscenities have been flagged as spam and deleted. Debate the issue with facts, not cuss words.

By: Bill Cravener

Bill Cravener — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:34:48 +0000

Padding the member numbers? Anyone with a brain would realize that’s the truth. The NRA is an extremist group for fools!