It can't die fast enough.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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If only there were a quick and effective means of killing something.
Sadly, those are only to be used on kindergartners.
If conservatives were susceptible to irony they’d have all been gunned down by now
Hmmm, did the spigot of Russian money flowing into their coffers dry up?
That’s the real answer. “We’re no longer a foreign asset funnelling Russian money to republicans so we’re broke”
Yep if you look at all stuff across the world, the dirty money is drying up. The game is catching up
I guess that whole war with Ukraine thing has some side effects!
The game is catching up
The game
😡
Can I help? How can I help speed this up?
Good news: NRA (maybe, hopefully) dying.
Absolutely horrible news: The void being filled by even more extreme and harmful groups within the same overall ideology, Islamic State style.
Yeah the No Compromise podcast is a really good primer for what the NRA is done.
Scary listen, especially with the new speaker of the house’s religious statements.
A dozen other groups have far less power than one huge lobbying organization.
Not when they're working together and have taken over most of the billionaire donors
Maybe it should hurry the fuck up.
Can they speed it up a bit?
Do something to put it out of its misery, perhaps?
Good, even if you are supportive of gun rights there has to be a better option than contributing to a Russian fascist propaganda outlet.
The lack of Russian money probably helped here, too. Good riddance.
It's not dead yet? I thought it was already almost dead when they moved to texas.
They've repeatedly attempted to disband and then reform in Texas to avoid New York's lawsuit against them for all the fraud, misuse of donor funds, and other such law breaking. Judges have repeatedly quashed their attempts, as well as multiple other counter suits and appeals trying to get the case dismissed. Lawsuit is still ongoing. Latest update I could find from NY attorney general's office was here:
... and nothing of value was lost.
Good, but slowly isn’t good enough.
If ever an organisation needed a bullet...
Too slowly, unfortunately
Meh. The "gun groups" of the future are discord servers about 3d printing
That doesn't sound like an organized group with lobbying and government presence. I'm fine with that.
If they start going after 3D printers I might join them. I've got an unregistered gun maker sitting in the corner of my office, even though I mostly use it for printing figurines.
I'm sure Daddy Putin will have a replacement ready in no time.
Why did you put an apostrophe in rights
Ask the writer, since the blurb was auto-pulled from it.
Because they are the gun right. You know, like alt-right, Christian right, gun right.
Oh shit! I saw the gold and purple and the old white man and misread the title as NBA! How did I not see the guns?!
Also fuck the NRA for fucking ever! I wish we could start prying some guns from some of those cold dead hands already. Die.
Good!
I'm critical of the nra and I didn't think that's bleak, it's fucking awesome
This is the best summary I could come up with:
From 2003 to 2013, the organization scored 230 legislative victories, according to an Insider tally from the time, including passing six state laws that forbid municipalities from limiting gun rights.
Since then its membership has declined to 4.3 million, CEO and executive vice president LaPierre revealed in a January board meeting, according to a report by The Trace, a nonprofit covering gun violence.
Since 2020, it has faced an ongoing lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James, which alleges that its top officials, including LaPierre himself, diverted donations for their personal use, violating numerous state and federal laws, and even the NRA's own bylaws and policies.
James alleged that the funds were used for family trips to the Bahamas and private jets, which contributed to a $64 million reduction in the balance sheet in three years, turning a surplus into a deficit.
"The NRA's influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets," James said at a press conference at the time.
Forty-five percent of U.S. households owned at least one firearm in 2022, according to research compiled by Statista, the highest figure since 2011—and 8 percentage points higher than in 2013, the year LaPierre said the NRA was on track for "unprecedented" growth.
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Democrats going after people stealing MY MONEY is COMMUNISM!
I've heard this one before. As long as the GOP can keep using them as a wedge issue, they'll never die. Maybe just mutate into something even worse.
Pity the number of victims of gun violence continues to rise, rather quickly.
Need to replace them with the SRA stat.
🎶 They ain't gonna jump no more 🎶
Not slowly enough
I feel like one of the 7 pro gun people on all of Lemmy, I'd like to share some perspective about the NRA being a boogieman. They absolutely are not the boogiman that leftists and anti gunners think they are. They are a ridiculously bloated, corrupt, beuracracy, no different than our federal government. They are all optics. In fact I'd say their only job is to be the boogieman and absorb negative attention, to allow the real gun rights groups to get some work done.
They keep a public list of approved politicians and downgrade anyone who even mentions gun reform. That feels like more than just a bureaucracy; since they're largely funded by weapons manufacturers, it seems more like an extremely influential lobby. And since what they're lobbying for is "keep pretending that there's no way to solve the deadly problem that kills more humans than any other thing you don't do to yourself and literally every other developed nation has solved," it seems like their job is to enforce the prioritization of gun manufacturers' profits over lives.