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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Straw Man
(6,775 posts)18. Do tell.
"The NRA has helped promote that culture of irresponsibility."
Really? Maybe you'd like to comment on this:
https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org/
"Try this as an example. Write them and request gun safety information and then track the marketing you begin receiving. How many safety messages do you get compared to every other PR message fetishizing guns in one way or another."
Yeah, once you're on a marketing list, you'll get marketed to. Does that somehow dilute or invalidate the safety information you receive?
Have you ever taken an NRA safety class? The people in this incident violated literally every single one of the rules that those classes teach. Yet somehow you feel that this is the NRA's fault.
Really? Maybe you'd like to comment on this:
https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org/
"Try this as an example. Write them and request gun safety information and then track the marketing you begin receiving. How many safety messages do you get compared to every other PR message fetishizing guns in one way or another."
Yeah, once you're on a marketing list, you'll get marketed to. Does that somehow dilute or invalidate the safety information you receive?
Have you ever taken an NRA safety class? The people in this incident violated literally every single one of the rules that those classes teach. Yet somehow you feel that this is the NRA's fault.
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"(Y)ou feel that this is the NRA's fault." 'NRA' is a magical incantation for certain people...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2017
#22
If he was the captain of a boat and he was "playing" before it crashed, should he be charged?
Doodley
Jun 2017
#10
I think it depends on the circumstances (just as with child-in-a-hot-car, and other
petronius
Jun 2017
#17