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Related: About this forumNRA Avoiding Accountability for Charleston Shooting
It was apparent from the very outset that the Confederate flag issue had become the perfect vehicle for the NRA crowd to slither away from the story about nine more people being massacred in America with uncontrolled firearms. Just how pervasive has the power of the NRA become?
Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio discusses this with political commentator Chauncey DeVega.
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NRA Avoiding Accountability for Charleston Shooting (Original Post)
GoLeft TV
Jun 2015
OP
I posted something to Facebook last Wednesday on precisely this issue . . .
markpkessinger
Jun 2015
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)1. One word describes the NRA best, "disingenuous". nt
gordianot
(15,259 posts)2. When has the NRA taken accountability for anything?
markpkessinger
(8,409 posts)3. I posted something to Facebook last Wednesday on precisely this issue . . .
Here was the post:
I couldn't be more pleased to see the sudden push among a number of Southern states, and Southern Republican politicians, to begin considering the removal of symbols of the Confederacy from public grounds, flags, etc. Public symbols are important, and it is important that symbols used represent all of the citizens whom the government serves, and that they not show partiality towards a particular constituency. It is something that is long overdue, and none of the arguments made in defense of the continued display of those symbols stands up to historical scrutiny.
I am a bit concerned, though, that THIS conversation is being permitted to overtake and supplant the conversation we still very much need to have in the wake of the Charleston shootings: the conversation about the availability of guns to violent, troubled individuals. That remains a critical discussion, and one we continue to try to avoid. And I cannot help but wonder if the hope that the Confederate flag controversy will absorb much of the energy of the conversation about guns is what is driving the sudden change of heart by so many Republican politicians.
I am a bit concerned, though, that THIS conversation is being permitted to overtake and supplant the conversation we still very much need to have in the wake of the Charleston shootings: the conversation about the availability of guns to violent, troubled individuals. That remains a critical discussion, and one we continue to try to avoid. And I cannot help but wonder if the hope that the Confederate flag controversy will absorb much of the energy of the conversation about guns is what is driving the sudden change of heart by so many Republican politicians.
libodem
(19,288 posts)5. Most Excellent
appalachiablue
(41,204 posts)4. K & R.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)6. And water is wet. n/t
imthevicar
(811 posts)7. Let's all do the following,
First, bring the house up to a constitutional level of representation.
Second, have a nationwide conversation about Arms.
Third, if you want we can have a constitutional amendment about Arms. we vote on it.
http://www.thirty-thousand.org