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SecularMotion

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Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:54 AM Feb 2016

Gun-rights advocates urge NRA to remove Ted Nugent from board over ‘anti-Semitic’ outburst

Gun owners are pressuring the National Rifle Association to boot longtime board member Ted Nugent from the organization’s leadership ranks after the rock star’s social media outburst that depicted prominent American Jews as the men and women “really behind gun control.”

Nugent, an outspoken Second Amendment advocate, posted a photo on Facebook this week calling Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), “Jew York City Mayor Mikey Bloomberg,” former senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, among many others, “punks” who would “deny us the basic human right to self defense and to keep and bear arms while many of them have paid hired armed security.”

The Israeli flag appears over or next to each of the 12 faces in the photo, which is the same one that has been shared many times in white suprema­cist cir­cles, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Nugent’s post revived the meme, prompting anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi groups to encourage him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/10/gun-rights-advocates-urge-nra-to-remove-ted-nugent-from-board-over-anti-semitic-outburst/
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Gun-rights advocates urge NRA to remove Ted Nugent from board over ‘anti-Semitic’ outburst (Original Post) SecularMotion Feb 2016 OP
Always the classy one, Ted. whathehell Feb 2016 #1
it would be nice Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #2
That's proof that there ARE responsible gun owners. Wilms Feb 2016 #3
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