‘American Pie’ singer Don McLean cancels NRA meeting performance

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“American Pie” singer Don McLean is nixing a performance at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting in the wake of the school shooting in Texas that killed at least 19 children.

“In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week,” McLean said in a Wednesday statement, according multiple reports.



“I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation,” McLean said.

The NRA indicated in a statement a day after the deadly shooting that the event would still take place. Former President Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) are among the speakers scheduled to appear at the gathering.

Lee Greenwood, famous for his 1984 hit “God Bless the U.S.A.,” is also poised to perform at the event,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...AAXKQni?cvid=c40f517699e94f04b1c8790b984a8b16
 
guno said:
“American Pie” singer Don McLean is nixing a performance at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting in the wake of the school shooting in Texas that killed at least 19 children....
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Good thing Pedo Don, "Big Freeze" Abbott and Cancun Cruz are still going. :thup:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-trump-abbott-cruz-texas-shooting/9925971002/
Guns will be banned during Donald Trump's speech at the NRA conference
The National Rifle Association recommitted Wednesday to holding its annual convention over the weekend in Houston after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that killed at least 21 people.

Texas politicians and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to address a leadership forum sponsored by the NRA’s lobbying arm....

...The forum is scheduled to include Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
 
Guns will be banned during Donald Trump's speech at the NRA conference


Why?

Remember

tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings

Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away.

In addition to mapping out their national strategy, NRA leaders can also be heard describing the organization's more activist members in surprisingly harsh terms, deriding them as "hillbillies" and "fruitcakes" who might go off script after Columbine and embarrass them.

And they dismiss conservative politicians and gun industry representatives as largely inconsequential players, saying they will do whatever the NRA proposes. Members of Congress, one participant says, have asked the NRA to "secretly provide them with talking points."

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1049...-shows-the-nras-evolution-on-school-shootings
 
guno said:
Guns will be banned during Donald Trump's speech at the NRA conference


Why?

Remember

tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings

Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away.

In addition to mapping out their national strategy, NRA leaders can also be heard describing the organization's more activist members in surprisingly harsh terms, deriding them as "hillbillies" and "fruitcakes" who might go off script after Columbine and embarrass them.

And they dismiss conservative politicians and gun industry representatives as largely inconsequential players, saying they will do whatever the NRA proposes. Members of Congress, one participant says, have asked the NRA to "secretly provide them with talking points."

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1049...-shows-the-nras-evolution-on-school-shootings
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To be fair, I think the Democrats are as wrong to demonize the NRA, not to mention empower them with godlike powers, as the Republicans are to demonize social programs as Marxism.

The NRA politicized in the 1990s as a direct reaction to the anti-gun movement led by Bill Clinton. His gun ban bill drive a solid wedge between the Left and the Right on unalienable rights and our Constitution.

No doubt the NRA has influence, but when following the money, that influence is not nearly as large as the Democrats proclaim. Notice they aren't even on this list of 20 largest lobbies:

https://www.businessinsider.com/lobbying-groups-spent-most-money-washington-dc-2018-2019-3
The 20 companies and groups that spend the most money to influence lawmakers
 
Dutch Uncle said:
To be fair, I think the Democrats are as wrong to demonize the NRA, not to mention empower them with godlike powers, as the Republicans are to demonize social programs as Marxism.

The NRA politicized in the 1990s as a direct reaction to the anti-gun movement led by Bill Clinton. His gun ban bill drive a solid wedge between the Left and the Right on unalienable rights and our Constitution.

No doubt the NRA has influence, but when following the money, that influence is not nearly as large as the Democrats proclaim. Notice they aren't even on this list of 20 largest lobbies:

https://www.businessinsider.com/lobbying-groups-spent-most-money-washington-dc-2018-2019-3
The 20 companies and groups that spend the most money to influence lawmakers
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And yet many people left the NRA when it went full nutter , even Bush 1
 
guno said:
And yet many people left the NRA when it went full nutter , even Bush 1
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I left for about 10 years because they were annoyingly always begging for money, but I went back for after Obama and the 2013 gun ban bill. Still a member but it runs out next February. After all the corruption and lies, I don't plan on renewing even though I do enjoy the historical parts of American Rifleman magazine.
 
Charlton Heston is speaking today at the NRA rally- Says he will be voting in the upcoming election!

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SmarterthanYou said:
Bush left the NRA because they accused horiuchi of murder and wanted him indicted and tried
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George H.W. Bush Quit the NRA With This Sternly Worded Letter
The 41st president’s iconoclastic brand of Republicanism led him to take a stand against the gun group's rhetoric of fear.

In 1995, during an earlier charged period in the American gun debate, Bush publicly cut ties with the National Rifle Association over a incendiary fundraising letter sent to the gun group’s 3.5 million members. In the appeal sent that April, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre penned a now infamous phrase, labeling government agents “jack-booted thugs” who robbed citizens of their constitutional rights. The language was one step too far for the former president. He fired off a letter of resignation to the NRA’s president, Tom Washington, calling LaPierre’s desperate appeal a “broadside against Federal agents.”

“You have not repudiated Mr. LaPierre’s unwarranted attack,” Bush’s missive reads. “Therefore, I resign as a Life Member of NRA, said resignation to be effective upon your receipt of this letter. Please remove my name from your membership list.”

In the fundraising letter that lead to Bush’s resignation, the NRA played into the fears of anti-government militia groups. The scare tactics in LaPierre’s letter — that government agents, donned in “Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms,” were licensed to “harass, intimidate, and even murder law-abiding citizens” — were part of the NRA’s new plan to leave the embarrassments of the weapons ban and background checks in the dust and press on with truly no-compromise gun owners as its core political constituency.

In different circumstances, LaPierre’s language might have been dismissed as the hyperbolic fatalism for which the NRA has become known. But his timing couldn’t have been worse. Six days after LaPierre sent his letter to NRA members, Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack was devastating for multiple federal law enforcement agencies, in

Here’s a copy of Bush’s full letter, courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum:

https://www.thetrace.org/2015/11/george-bush-nra-membership-wayne-lapierre/
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Correct.

Let's remember that the next time some Keyboard Koward whines about Biden not going into a war zone. :thup:
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Biden is the current president. I have heard MANY MANY MAAAAANNNNYYYYY TIMES Republicans bitching about having to pay for lifetime security for ex presidents and their families...but that was mostly after Obama left office.
 
Coolred44 said:
Biden is the current president. I have heard MANY MANY MAAAAANNNNYYYYY TIMES Republicans bitching about having to pay for lifetime security for ex presidents and their families...but that was mostly after Obama left office.
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It's gotten louder over the years but mostly started at the end of the Cold War when two main things happened: The Soviet Union collapsed leaving the GOP without an enemy and the Christian Right, which gained power in the RNC under Reagan, began asserting itself. That's when the GOP began to die. They transitioned from fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility and national defense to Theocratic Federalists who wanted to ban gay marriage and abortion.

The budget deficit under Bush and Trump proves they are no different than Democrats in maintaining a fiscally sound economy.
 
The Republican Party died when Nixon began cheating in elections


Or maybe with the southern strategy
 
Dutch Uncle said:
To be fair, I think the Democrats are as wrong to demonize the NRA, not to mention empower them with godlike powers, as the Republicans are to demonize social programs as Marxism.

The NRA politicized in the 1990s as a direct reaction to the anti-gun movement led by Bill Clinton. His gun ban bill drive a solid wedge between the Left and the Right on unalienable rights and our Constitution.

No doubt the NRA has influence, but when following the money, that influence is not nearly as large as the Democrats proclaim. Notice they aren't even on this list of 20 largest lobbies:

https://www.businessinsider.com/lobbying-groups-spent-most-money-washington-dc-2018-2019-3
The 20 companies and groups that spend the most money to influence lawmakers
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Evidently, the NRA has two separate accounts. The dark money account leads to Putin. As Butina admitted in her trial.
 
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