Anarchy in the U.S. in the warped view of the NRA

When a great President past said there was nothing to fear but fear itself, he hadn’t reckoned with the National Rifle Association.

A chilling, propagandistic video the NRA has unleashed on an already inflamed internet whips up fear to the fullest, injecting the murderous force of firearms to the toxic mix.

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The NRA cynically employs fear as means to an end. For eight years, it pushed the myth that President Obama was coming for people’s firearms — and sure enough saw a surge in gun purchases. To maintain momentum in the Trump era, the NRA adopts the “American carnage” narrative of the President’s fear-fueling inaugural address.

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After decades of inducing Congress to block even reasonable limits on weaponry, and even as casualties of mass shootings have soared — among them two dead and six wounded in a rifle attack at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Friday — the NRA decided that an estimated 270 million guns aren’t enough.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/anarchy-u-s-warped-view-nra-article-1.3292496

NRA apologists claim that the "Left" has forced the NRA to become the right-wing, lying, homophobic, racist, hate-mongering machine that it has become by threatening to ban ALL firearms. And there you have it: the right-wing racist, bigoted, misogynistic, "guns everywhere" crowd feeds the NRA by buying more guns -- which is just the way the NRA wants it.

This excerpt from the article sums it up nicely:

"The NRA cynically employs fear as means to an end. For eight years, it pushed the myth that President Obama was coming for people’s firearms — and sure enough saw a surge in gun purchases. To maintain momentum in the Trump era, the NRA adopts the “American carnage” narrative of the President’s fear-fueling inaugural address."

Instilling fear of each other, especially if we are somehow "different" is the key to profits for the NRA, and for their Main Man, the Trumpster. Two distinctly and profoundly un-American entities wrapped up in each other's arms (pun intended).