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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 09:46 AM Apr 2016

Yet more evidence that the NRA and the Great American Gun Nut are dying out.


NRA, gun industry target Hispanics to broaden its appeal – and survive

What Franco didn’t say (in the NRA produced ad) is that she is part of the NRA’s latest push to attract membership among Hispanics, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the country. Though the NRA will not publicly say it is trying to woo Hispanics, experts say the NRA views the minority group as a potent force to try and grow its aging membership.

“The NRA faces an existential problem,” said Dr. Robert Spitzer, author of the book The Politics of Gun Control and a member of the NRA who has written about the NRA, the Second Amendment and gun control laws. “Their base has been gradually shrinking – older white males are a smaller and declining population as a whole and younger people are less interested in guns. Gun ownership and use has actually been declining for the past 40 years.”


Interesting read, particularly in combination with http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172189722
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