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In reply to the discussion: Incoming NRA President Calls Civil War The ‘War Of Northern Aggression’ [View all]naaman fletcher
(7,362 posts)8. The NRA website
Repeats his claim about the reason for its founding. Is that not true? I can't find a debunking of that.
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Incoming NRA President Calls Civil War The ‘War Of Northern Aggression’ [View all]
Blue_Tires
May 2013
OP
I always assumed "racist idiot" is a top-5 requirement for any NRA president candidate. nt
tridim
May 2013
#1
He IS the NRA and the gun fans nationwide. The poster person. It is Jim Porter. He is all of them.
graham4anything
May 2013
#3
"Where are our DU NRA apologists ..." Obviously, none exist except in your imagination.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#13
As false as the McCarthy tactic of calling opponents "communists or communist sympathizers."
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#25
If facts supported your position, you wouldn't have to resort to name calling as a diversion.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#32
There have been Gungeon threads where DU Gun Enthusiasts proclaimed their NRA memberships.
Paladin
May 2013
#45
If you have to engage in name calling, and McCarthy did that, you've lost.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#55
As false as the McCarthy tactic of calling opponents "communists or communist sympathizers."
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#24
When a rock is thrown into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit.
Ikonoklast
May 2013
#19
As false as the McCarthy tactic of calling opponents "communists or communist sympathizers."
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#26
As false as the McCarthy tactic of calling opponents "communists or communist sympathizers."
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#23
If facts supported your position, you wouldn't have to resort to name calling as a diversion.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#31
But, there are millions of free-riders (too cheap to pay dues?) who benefit from NRA gun propaganda.
Hoyt
May 2013
#36
Today, the Nugents, Norquists, LaPierres, Boltons, Norths, gun profiteers, etc., have taken over.
Hoyt
May 2013
#41
Who cares how they started. It's like saying Lincoln freed the slaves, so Republicans aren't racists
Hoyt
May 2013
#57
RW extremists use that sort of info to con normal people to believe that they're really not so bad.
baldguy
May 2013
#69
When it's intended to paint a false image of a current RW extremist group? Yes, very definitely.
baldguy
May 2013
#81
I guess you're embarrassed to be exposed as a member of a known radical extremist RW organization.
baldguy
May 2013
#92
Well, part of it is that for some reason it took until Sandy Hook for NRA membership to be
geek tragedy
May 2013
#85
This thread deserves to be on the front page forever because of this one reply.
2ndAmForComputers
Sep 2013
#97
Better headline: "Incoming NRA President defends Holocaust against minorities"
Dawson Leery
May 2013
#34
My granparents from Alabama always called it the "War Between the States", but never the
pampango
May 2013
#49
Even better headline: "Incoming NRA President Advocates Treason in Defense of Slavery"
meow2u3
May 2013
#67