How the NRA hijacks gun control debates

Why is the NRA -- a group that represents the interests of gun manufacturers -- taken seriously in debates about reducing gun violence?

Source: VOX
RFlaggsays...

This has been one of my key problems with the ongoing debate. They represent the product, the companies. Though the GOP way now is to let the fox guard the hen house and say everything is fine... Have a lobbyist for an industry be in charge of regulating that industry... as if he'll have the public's interest and not the industry's interests. Have the lawyer for Verizon in charge of regulating Verizon and similar companies, and we've already seen he has no interest in the public good, just what is good for Verizon. Put a guy who hates the EPA and has tried to shut it down, in charge of the EPA... let the Cuyahoga River burn again by rolling back all the regulations that prevent it from happening again. These people have zero integrity, and the NRA is just an extension of this issue, and perhaps was the wedge in the door. Let the industry's lobby group control the debate, and people get used to the idea of the fox guarding the henhouse. It is rather maddening.

bobknight33says...

If dick head liberals wouldn't try every way to ban guns then the NRA would not have to push gun owner rights so hard.

ACLU and NAACP are push just as hard for their agenda.

Good guys with guns are needed to stop bad guys with guns.



2nd amendment is rightfully needed.

newtboyjokingly says...

You mean Trump, who clearly said he wants the government to take your guns first, then later, maybe, go through due process when (if) it's convenient?

He's the only politician to say that, not Democrats, not the ACLU, not the NAACP, Trump....the dick head liberal you love to hate.

bobknight33said:

If dick head liberals wouldn't try every way to ban guns then the NRA would not have to push gun owner rights so hard.

ACLU and NAACP are push just as hard for their agenda.

Good guys with guns are needed to stop bad guys with guns.



2nd amendment is rightfully needed.

Ickstersays...

Fuck you, Bob.

bobknight33said:

If dick head liberals wouldn't try every way to ban guns then the NRA would not have to push gun owner rights so hard.

ACLU and NAACP are push just as hard for their agenda.

Good guys with guns are needed to stop bad guys with guns.



2nd amendment is rightfully needed.

00Scud00says...

I'll see your 650k fetuses and raise you 14 dead walking, talking, breathing schoolkids. The first is primarily the concern of political opportunists, religious fundamentalists and people who seem far too interested in controlling other people's sex lives. The latter is the concern of, well, pretty much everyone.

bobknight33said:

Planned Parenthood helped abort SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND FETUSES LAST YEAR. The NRA killed no one. Sleep on that.

bobknight33says...

Murdering infants has nothing to do with peoples sex lives.

Keep living in the liberal dream.

00Scud00said:

I'll see your 650k fetuses and raise you 14 dead walking, talking, breathing schoolkids. The first is primarily the concern of political opportunists, religious fundamentalists and people who seem far too interested in controlling other people's sex lives. The latter is the concern of, well, pretty much everyone.

newtboysays...

A fetus is not an infant. Abortion has nothing to do with murder or infants. Keep living the idiots fantasy.

So....

Who murdered infants? You know when they get into a big group, they're just like piranhas. Hat had to kill those babies. FREE HAT!

bobknight33said:

Murdering infants has nothing to do with peoples sex lives.

Keep living in the liberal dream.

FlowersInHisHairsays...

It's not a partisan issue, Bob. The "debate" is being stifled by the NRA - a prime example of pure capitalist interest infringing on public policy. The NRA doesn't truly care about gun owners' rights, or the 2nd amendment. It only cares about the money it gets from the gun companies. Conservatives' voices are being taken away from them by this industry lobbying group. You should be angry about that.

bobknight33said:

If dick head liberals wouldn't try every way to ban guns then the NRA would not have to push gun owner rights so hard.

ACLU and NAACP are push just as hard for their agenda.

Good guys with guns are needed to stop bad guys with guns.



2nd amendment is rightfully needed.

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