NRA President Oliver North Says Parkland Gun Control Activists Are Criminal Civil Terrorists

[Initech]

The newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”

Oliver North, who is best known for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal in which profits from weapons sales to Iran were secretly funneled to right-wing guerrillas in Nicaragua, was named the lobbying group’s new president earlier this week. And he has wasted no time attacking activists who have criticized the NRA’s role in continued gun violence.

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”

In referencing Jim Crow, North appeared to be comparing the plight of the NRA with civil rights activists who fought for racial equality in the 1960s, during a time in which many were beaten and murdered. North said NRA leaders had been subjected to personal “threats.”

http://www.newsweek.com/nra-oliver-north-parkland-terrorists-919989?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

Oh fuck off, traitor. You're one to talk about terrorism. Seriously, eat a bag of shit, Ollie.

[Delphinus]

1. How dare he

He should have been locked up for what he did with the Iran-Contra affair. How dare he.

[Takket]

2. whom have they used violence against in the name of their political cause?

since that is basically the definition of a terrorist................

[Ilsa]

3. Fuck effin' traitor oliver north with a cactus. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. But none of them are convicts. nt

[Corgigal]

9. Ha

and can vote, or will soon.

[underpants]

5. "a civil rights organization"???

[Initech]

7. I'm surprised they haven't attempted to declare guns as people yet.

They have more rights than we do anymore.

[ellie]

6. Hahahahaha!

Fuck that traitor. What a disgrace he is.

[Tarc]

8. This needs a refresher; Ollie North, the Mute Marine

[struggle4progress]

10. "If they were real Americans, they would support the right of crackpots to murder children!"

[JDC]

11. F off Ollie. Traitor.

[Blue_true]

12. Yeah, but anything that asshole says is freedom of speech. nt

[shanny]

13. I am really going to enjoy it when the Parkland students and the rest of us

hand the NRA and Ollie fugging North their walking papers. Mr I-lied-and-I'm-not-sorry is WAY overdue for a reckoning.

[eleny]

14. Wow, that's an exquisite example of projection

And I admire your personal comment. It's a pisser.

[Cha]

15. FUcking Psychopath. A badge of honor

for the KIDS.

[Kirk Lover]

16. Oh goody...a new label ! nt

[oasis]

17. Just arrived but, North is already the nuttiest NRA president in history.

[Initech]

18. He has a thing with traitors doesn't he?

First Iran - Contra and now NRA - Russia.