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ieoeja

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17. I was an NRA member when the OKC bombing occurred.
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 11:51 AM
Apr 2013

Next edition of American Rifleman featured LaPierre's lengthy article about how the NRA never promoted any wild-eyed, anti-government hysteria.

That very same edition included a Neal Knox article detailing how UN Black Helicopters invaded a Chicago suburb in the middle of the night rounding up all of the citizens in a practice raid.


For the first couple years after I quit the NRA, they kept calling and asking me to rejoin. The conversation went the exact same way every single time....

ME: "While I am a big supporter of gun rights, in most other ways I am fairly Liberal, and"

{click}

They hung up on me. Every single time. I understand they now pretend to want Democrats and Liberals. But they made no such pretense back in the '90s.

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America's first freedom? Can gun nuts not count? onehandle Apr 2013 #1
Is that just for this month or last month? snooper2 Apr 2013 #2
I thought I'd seen crazy before Hayabusa Apr 2013 #3
"Non-partisan". Yeah, right. baldguy Apr 2013 #4
Of course they love Sarah palin, a total poser that didn't even load brewens Apr 2013 #5
The Palin hunting thing was really sick Botany Apr 2013 #23
I don't get the Pinocchio reference dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #6
'He says he won't grab your guns, but he's lying.' nt onehandle Apr 2013 #7
ohhhhh...thanks.... dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #10
Kooks and idiots tabasco Apr 2013 #8
Wait, is Obama Dpm12 Apr 2013 #9
They don't disguise their contempt for him very well. undeterred Apr 2013 #13
More stochastic terrorism from the right. nt Comrade_McKenzie Apr 2013 #11
Only you can save our guns!!! ROFL!!! Rex Apr 2013 #12
Yup. Paranoid nutbags. SunSeeker Apr 2013 #18
I received another NRA mailer yesterday. I plan on doing what I always do when I get shit like firenewt Apr 2013 #14
Let the conspiracy nuts marginalize themselves. Coyotl Apr 2013 #15
Watch out! Behind you! It's "O Bummer" comin' fer yer guns! MatthewStLouis Apr 2013 #16
It is hard to imagine any American advocating confiscating guns hack89 Apr 2013 #19
I was an NRA member when the OKC bombing occurred. ieoeja Apr 2013 #17
Not Right America Dryvinwhileblind Apr 2013 #20
. libodem Apr 2013 #21
And some idiots on this forum still argue that the NRA is not a right wing organization. n-t Logical Apr 2013 #22
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