^^^ must be some kinda new weed floating around ^^^
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^^^ must be some kinda new weed floating around ^^^
Fear is a tool that has been used in politics forever. This goes far back, where the politics were religion, monarchy, republics or dictatorships.
The gun lobby uses fear of race, government, social classes beautifully and having an African-American President has been heavenly for them.
The gun industry because the NRA / Gun sales pitch has been built on fear of the urban people of color, socialism (i.e. progressive government) and of the total prohibition of firearms, made more money and sold more guns during Obama's first term than ever before and the run on guns and ammunition started on 11-05-08 and did not start.
Even though Obama totally avoided the third rail of gun control in his first campaign and term, the NRA supported Mitt Romney even though Mitt had signed some of toughest gun regulations as Governor of MA while Obama's only executive action as President regarding guns was to make it llegal to carry firearms in National Parks.
Now why would the NRA do that? Because they sell the fear of progressive politicians and more importantly they count on the fear of whites of people of color. It would have clouded future story lines and like so many other folks they thought Romney would probably lose which would be good for business but that if he won he would not be a gun safety advocate because he wasn't in MA any longer and Romney was a creature of the moment not a man of principle and in greater degree than most men who have run for the POTUS.
The NRA are as good at being a manipulative force on public opinion as there is in the US today. And they have no shame in touching off hot buttons of fear, whether those hot buttons are based on race, class or political orientation. Probably the only thing that bums LaPierre out is that he can't figure out how to weave the LGBT community into his message.
There's a link to some website in Spain in the middle of all that garbage. At first I thought it was a bad Google translation job, but even that couldn't be this bad.
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