NRA finally dead

[Althea]

Disagreed. Tree huggers have political groups, there no reason why there can't be a group for each Amendment. The NRA's problems have been known for a few years now. They have a lot of bridges to rebuild if they want to become the leader of all American gun rights groups. Otherwise one of the other gun rights groups will take over.

Gun rights advocacy groups in the United States‎

NRA has been exposed, and they existed a long time ago when political donation laws were very different. There will be no change in finances w/respect to gun lobbying if the NRA ceased to exist.

[Althea]

It was a sting by Russian intelligence services.

The Russians knew that dim witted American gun nuts could be easily duped into thinking Russian citizens were keen to learn about gun rights from American rednecks. The whole point of the sting was to infiltrate the NRA, and by doing so get access to Republican Party apparatchiks.

Yes. I remember. It also made it possible for Putin to send millions to the NRA.

I was being sarcastic.

[Jarod]

ROTFLMAO

[cawacko]

ROTFLMAO

they filed again?

[Phantasmal]

I merged the threads.

[Doc Dutch]

With Citizens United, NRA is unnecessary. You can rest assured that there will be countless millions in donations from gun/ammo manufacturers.

Why filter donations through LaPierre's wallet?

Not anymore. LaPierre better have made some good investments because his ride on the gravy train is over.

[Doc Dutch]

NRA has been exposed, and they existed a long time ago when political donation laws were very different. There will be no change in finances w/respect to gun lobbying if the NRA ceased to exist.

I'm not expecting there to be a change in finance laws. I'm expecting the NRA to return to its roots.

[T. A. Gardner]

That's called fraud.

Says the non-lawyer, non-expert. Aside from that, if they are bankrupt in New York and doing a Chapter 11 reorganization of the corporation its perfectly legal. These are often done by larger corporations to shed unwanted debt or to avoid legal costs that might cripple them. New York screwed itself by taking the NRA into a political show trial...

[T. A. Gardner]

The 2nd Amendment was insisted upon to make sure slave patrols were armed.

Where do you get your history from, idiocy like the debunked 1619 Project or maybe Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States? Because right now, you know zero about US history saying that.

[Legion]

And didn't LaPierre and others engage in a little sticky-fingers with the funds?

Allegedly, Fuck Face.

It's funny that the precept that our criminal justice system is founded upon is so readily discarded when someone you don't like is accused.

[Althea]

I'm not expecting there to be a change in finance laws. I'm expecting the NRA to return to its roots.

You always were an optimist.

I'm not saying there will be change to finance laws. I'm saying the changes made the NRA obsolete

[Legion]

The 2nd Amendment was insisted upon to make sure slave patrols were armed.

Who told you that?

[Legion]

Dubyah created a major worldwide clusterfuck, but he just slithered into obscurity.

No, he didn't. The same leftists who've demonized him for more than a decade now praise him because he's a never-Trumper.

DEMOCRATS are easy, like whores.

[Legion]

It was a sting by Russian intelligence services. The Russians knew that dim witted American gun nuts could be easily duped into thinking Russian citizens were keen to learn about gun rights from American rednecks. The whole point of the sting was to infiltrate the NRA, and by doing so get access to Republican Party apparatchiks.

Is that a fact?

"According to DEMOCRATS on the Senate Finance Committee".

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/nra-russians-ties-president-2016-election/index.html

[Jerome]

Where do you get your history from, idiocy like the debunked 1619 Project or maybe Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States? Because right now, you know zero about US history saying that.

Try James Madison and George Mason and Patrick Henry...

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion...s/201902100107

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/o...s-madison.html

the majority population in eastern Virginia were enslaved blacks. Whites lived in constant fear of slave insurrection. Everyone knew about the 1739 slave rebellion in Stono, S.C., when blacks broke into a store, decapitated the shopkeepers, seized guns and powder, and marched with flying banners, beating drums and cries of “Liberty!” Up to 100 joined the rebellion before being engaged by a contingent of armed, mounted militiamen. Scores died in the ensuing battle.
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the principal instrument for slave control was the militia. In the main, the South had refused to commit her militias to the war against the British during the American Revolution out of fear that, if the militias departed, slaves would revolt. But while the militias were effective at slave control, they had proved themselves unequal to the task of fighting a professional army. Bunker Hill was the last militia victory during the Revolution. The Continental Army (aided by the French Navy) won the war.
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previously the militias were creatures of state governments. The new Constitution changed that. It divided authority over militias between the national and state governments, but gave the lion’s share of authority — including the power to organize, arm and discipline the militias — to Congress.
During the debate in Richmond, Mason and Henry suggested that the new Constitution gave Congress the power to subvert the slave system by disarming the militias. “Slavery is detested,” Henry reminded the audience. “The majority of Congress is to the North, and the slaves are to the South,” he said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-sl...-2nd-amendment

James Madison, the author of the Second Amendment, wrote his amendment with his eye firmly fixed on practical politics. He introduced the amendment during Virginia’s debate over the ratification of the Constitution because Virginia Governor Patrick Henry saw danger lurking in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to provide for “organizing, arming, and disciplining” militias.

Henry feared that without checks upon it, Congress could undermine the ability of militias in Virginia and elsewhere in the South to suppress slave uprisings and pursue runaway slaves.

The militia issue was important enough for Henry to see it as grounds for opposing ratification of the Constitution. The positive power Congress had over militias, Henry reasoned, could easily be turned into restrictive power. “By this sir, you see that their control over our best defence is unlimited,” Henry warned his fellow Virginians.