23 Reasons Why The NRA Is Racist
Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.
In the October edition of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) magazine America’s 1st Freedom, NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre takes on what he calls the “false notion” from the “gun-ban media” that “somehow the NRA is racist.”
Outlets covering the NRA and race should consider these examples — starting with LaPierre himself — in evaluating his claims:
1. After Hurricane Sandy struck New York City and other parts of the East Coast in 2013, LaPierre was criticized for writing an op-ed in which he falsely claimed that “looters ran wild in south Brooklyn” and fearmongered about “Latin American drug gangs.” Conservative commentator Joe Scarborough described the claims as “so laced with racial overtones.” Progressive commentator Touré pointed out that LaPierre “spoke of supposedly rampant crime and murder in some place he called South Brooklyn. … Put aside that no reporting bears that out. I live in Brooklyn, I have for a long time, and there is no place referred to as South Brooklyn, but I think it’s safe to say that when he says that, much of the country envisions a place clogged with black people.”
2.During the NRA’s 2015 annual meeting, LaPierre referenced the end of the Obama administration and told the crowd, “Eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough.” Reacting to the comment, Pulitzer-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote, “LaPierre traded his dog whistle for an air horn.”
3. During a 2014 speech, LaPierre adopted conservative media’s racially charged claims about the (nonexistent) “knockout game” phenomenon — in which black youths supposedly assault unsuspecting, mostly white, victims on the street for fun — to hype gun ownership.
4. Activists and some gun owners castigated the NRA for its feckless response to the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, a black, law-abiding gun owner, by a Minnesota police officer in 2016.
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Should be called the National Racist Association
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... of what it was when I was young. There were way more thefts. City governments were way more corrupt forty years ago.
They shut up. People get the wrong read on me and start these unwelcome rants. People say I look like a cop. I am a bit puritanical by nature, but ... 
Back to my Cheerios. 
I re-read my post, and I definitely didn't make it clear that I was mocking their perspective. Instead, I made it seem like those are my views.
Glad we're on the same side! 
If we want to make any progress we need to tell the NRA where they can shove it. This line here infuriated me: "President Barack Obama “set race relations back 100 years in this country.”". No he didn't. The constant ridiculous whining from white nationalist snowflakes set race relations back 100 years. Fuck, I hate conservatives. 
