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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Wed May 25, 2016, 07:56 AM May 2016

NRA supports Bernie Sanders

The NRA's Bernie affair

The politics of the National Rifle Association's annual conference in Louisville didn't end at the group's endorsement of Donald Trump on Friday. At the conference on Saturday, Chris Cox, the head of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, played a clip of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defending his support for a 2005 law preventing lawsuits against gun companies when their materials are used by criminals. According to a report in the Guardian, Cox said to chuckles, "I don't say this often ... OK, fine, I've never said it. But Bernie's right."

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-influence/2016/05/the-nras-bernie-affair-214442
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NRA supports Bernie Sanders (Original Post) SecularMotion May 2016 OP
Clinton TeddyR May 2016 #1
maybe not cutroot May 2016 #2
Shouldn't we all? ileus May 2016 #3
The article clip makes the poster look duplicitious beardown May 2016 #4
That's only because they are DonP May 2016 #5
Gosh, how shocking! Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #6
I think the NRA supported JFK, a lifetime member. Eleanors38 May 2016 #7
I generally am not a fan of the NRA TeddyR May 2016 #9
I agree completely. Eleanors38 May 2016 #10
More dishonest... Puha Ekapi May 2016 #8
 

TeddyR

(2,493 posts)
1. Clinton
Wed May 25, 2016, 08:16 AM
May 2016

Wants to ban "assault weapons" and has voiced support for an Australian-style forced confiscation of firearms. Do you really think the NRA would support Hills?

beardown

(363 posts)
4. The article clip makes the poster look duplicitious
Wed May 25, 2016, 10:28 AM
May 2016

Chris Cox, the head of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, played a clip of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defending his support for a 2005 law preventing lawsuits against gun companies when their materials are used by criminals. According to a report in the Guardian, Cox said to chuckles, "I don't say this often ... OK, fine, I've never said it. But Bernie's right."

The article would not come up so I'm only going on the clip posted, but the poster did make a conscious decision to clip that part of the article.

One official from the NRA agrees with a Sander's position somehow turns into a "NRA supports Sanders" subject.

And if you actually pay attention to Cox's statement "...I don't say this often...OK fine, I've never said it. But Bernie's right" it sounds like he is grudgingly saying it because he HAS NEVER BEFORE agreed with Sanders.

With aim like this no wonder the poster is against guns.

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
5. That's only because they are
Wed May 25, 2016, 11:30 AM
May 2016

We used to have a rule that you had to use the actual headline with no editing and 3 paragraphs of a story.

But many on the control side like to "sensationalize" things a bit more, to create more bumper stickers so their followers can understand it.

 

TeddyR

(2,493 posts)
9. I generally am not a fan of the NRA
Wed May 25, 2016, 02:07 PM
May 2016

Because it has quacks like Ted Nugent on the board. But Dems often do themselves no favors on the gun control front. There are many states that simply will not elect an anti-gun Dem (Montana, West Virginia, etc.), and despite the fact that I'll vote for Hillary if she's the nominee, I worry that her gun control positions will hurt down-ticket Dems. I get the fact that California and New York aren't going to turn red because of Hills' positions, but there are a lot of states between those two that might if the Dems aren't careful - the Second Amendment is taken seriously in states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado.

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