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friendly_iconoclast

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13. Nevertheless, he has a point about EFGS being top-down and financed by one very rich person

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #12)

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 05:26 PM

Oct 2015

Like them or loathe them, the NRA manages to get their members to cough up at
least $35 per annum. If Wayne Lapierre drops dead tomorrow, the NRA will still go on.

What happens to Bloomberg's "grand alliance" if he dies or loses interest?

The record of the Brady Campaign(s) after the founders passed on should be a sobering example
for gun control advocates- they are a shadow of what they used to be.

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The Other Gun Lobby [View all] SecularMotion Oct 2015 OP

odd a 1%er footing the bill for gun control... ileus Oct 2015 #1

You sound like a raging paranoid... Human101948 Oct 2015 #2

Oh him? Don't mind him. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2015 #3

"...comes to GD to talk about guns...?" Since GUNZ is in GUNZ DISCUSSION, people have to.... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #4

Bias often compels something to "seem" such and such a way. LanternWaste Oct 2015 #6

In other words, you agree? Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #7

Did not the OP come to GD to talk about guns? Can we say 'double standard'? friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 #11

Depends if we actually get any productive conversation about it. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2015 #12

Nevertheless, he has a point about EFGS being top-down and financed by one very rich person friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 #13

Odd too that so many progressives defend the conservative PAC called the NRA. LanternWaste Oct 2015 #5

So lets support an authoritanian 1%er republican and his astroturf organization instead! nt hack89 Oct 2015 #10

Wow...are you worried!? Quick! Go out and buy some more guns and ammo! Rex Oct 2015 #8

It took decades to get to this point maxsolomon Oct 2015 #9