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[billh58]

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Gun manfacturers are like drug cartels, and the NRA is

their pushers.

[billh58]

2. Perfect analogy,

only the gun manufacturers have a higher body count.

[Amishman]

3. Both

No need to pick one or the other. The NRA's members want to buy guns, and the manufacturers want to sell them.

Following the money and the NRA seems to get about half its money from member dues.

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/01/do-assault-weapons-sales-pay-nra-salaries/

[billh58]

4. Like your gunner buddies

you cherry pick irrelevant information to rationalize your support for the NRA as legitimate. The facts are, like the OP article states, the NRA is funded and supported by unreported "Citizens United" money from ALEC (Koch Brothers), the right-wing gun lobby, and gun manufacturers (not just assault weapon death merchants).

Welcome back, and enjoy your stay. The other NRA supporters have missed you.

ETA:

John Nichols

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But it’s important to go beyond “easy” and understand that the NRA never walks alone. Reasonable people may have reasonable differences about how, when, where and whether to address the concerns Miller raises with regard to sales of assault weapons and ammunition. But no one should be comfortable with those who seek to silence the discourse and control against public responses to violence.

In this regard, the NRA has a powerful ally at the level of government, where the most meaningful interventions against violence can and frequently must be made.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, the Koch Brothers–guided group that aligns corporations with conservative legislators who will introduce the “model legislation” crafted by those corporations, has been in the forefront not just of averting sensible gun control but of trying to shut down public debate about gun control.

ALEC is known, of course, for its advocacy on behalf of the so-called “stand your ground,” or “shoot first,” or “kill at will” laws that became so much of an issue in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin slaying in Florida.