Following intense legislative fights over gun safety legislation in 2013, the fight over gun policy exploded into the cultural world in 2014. And in that sphere, the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby are losing.
The NRA is losing because it's forced to defend -- lest it offend its most hardcore activists -- gun extremists who openly carry assault weapons into shops and restaurants as a form of political protest. The gun industry, and the NRA by proxy, is losing as mainstream America begins to recognize the gun industry's trade group is less focused on hunting and sporting and more devoted to backing the NRA's extreme no-compromise agenda. The NRA is losing because commentary offered by two new projects that hope to reach out to minorities, women, and young people is so bizarre that it limits rather than expands the gun group's brand. And the NRA is losing because its most recognizable celebrity backer, board member Ted Nugent, has become a political liability, even for conservative Republicans.
Moms Demand Action Scores String Of Victories Against NRA-Backed Open Carry Advocates
Gun safety group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America won several victories while advocates for the open carrying of firearms further damaged their brand in 2014, as a series of retailers and restaurants made it clear that guns were not welcome in their stores.
2014 saw the explosion of a tactic by open carry advocates to bring firearms into retail stores in order to make a political statement. In many states, openly carrying firearms, including even assault weapons, is legal and does not require a permit.
The purported goal of open carry activists is to create a cultural shift where Americans will feel comfortable with the presence of handguns and assault weapons in public life. These advocates, however, have been poor ambassadors for their cause due to their use of intimidating tactics and their expression of extremist views about guns and the Second Amendment. (A high-profile member of Open Carry Texas is alleged to have shot to death her husband and stepdaughter this month, while the leader of another Texas open carry group has called for violent revolution and written that the two-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting that left 20 children and six educators dead was "a [sic] open carry kind of day.")i wondered how long. how many bodies, it would take for Americans to start to turn on the NRA. have we reached the beginning of sanity and compassion for life meaning more than someone shooting signs on a country road or their 2 year old sister in the backyard or murdering a theater full of patrons or a preschool full of 4 year olds, or more appropriate the one behind the podium at the next NRA "kill a kid no harm no foul because you still have your gun" speech by LaPierre.
if they can carry in church, how many will throw down if Jesus were to appear in their pulpit, sounds absurd but so does carrying a gun to church what are you really there for???
btw who is the Black guy in the picture and who is he associated with, if it weren't a set up the azzhole in the middle would have called the cops. sorry for that
