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shedevil69taz

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1. Why exactly would the NRA give general support to the politcal party whose platform...
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 09:35 PM
Apr 2015

is in direct opposition to its goals? They do support individual Democratic candidates, but generally they are the exception.

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Why exactly would the NRA give general support to the politcal party whose platform... shedevil69taz Apr 2015 #1
maybe it is just me.... monkeyofstick Apr 2015 #2
Guns don't have rights...humans do. ileus Apr 2015 #3
Once the Democratic Party comes to its senses on guns hack89 Apr 2015 #4
I think they are pretty marginalized on their own. No real organization has a idiot like..... Logical Apr 2015 #5
So why all the angst on DU about them? hack89 Apr 2015 #6
Because idiots still defend them and act like the just want to promote gun rights. nt Logical Apr 2015 #7
Except "defend" is usually defined as "disagree with me about gun control". hack89 Apr 2015 #8
hack89 post #4 -- GAME pablo_marmol Apr 2015 #16
As reliable as the change of seasons - gun control obssesses over the annual NRA meeting DonP Apr 2015 #9
"...reading the control minded folks is almost like being there." Indeed, indeed. Eleanors38 Apr 2015 #13
You asked on another thread (paraphrasing) "So when *is* the big gun control meeting?" friendly_iconoclast Apr 2015 #14
Well, just sit tight and the control people will fill us all in DonP Apr 2015 #15
The NRA are truly the Klingons discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2015 #17
Why was Rand Paul not invited? He has a perfect voting record on gun rights. flamin lib Apr 2015 #10
The NRA is to liberalism as the KKK is to Christianity. Enemies of progressivism. Duh. Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #11
Yep, they are stinkers. Brought to you by the gun-controllers. Eleanors38 Apr 2015 #12
Funny, but for a group that says that guns are not like a penis flamin lib Apr 2015 #18
Personally? Only because I have to use a wheel barrow everywhere I go. Eleanors38 Apr 2015 #19
In that case don't take offense to comments about idiots wearing a penis outside their clothes. flamin lib Apr 2015 #20
What she said! Eleanors38 Apr 2015 #21
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