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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGreat Podcast insight on how the NRA drummed up fear after Rodney King event --
http://www.wnyc.org/story/episode-36-fear-and-nra-and-hymn-orlandoMike Weisser is a lifelong N.R.A. member and former gun dealer who blogs as Mike the Gun Guy, but he is critical about how the N.R.A. uses fear to further its pro-gun agenda. The New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos asked Weisser how the organizations marketing squares up with reality.
A major point made by the "Gun Guy" -- he advocates guns for hunting and target shooting but says guns don't really serve to make us safer -- is that before the Rodney King event, guns were not promoted for personal safety. After the Rodney King riots (which happened after the three police officers who badly beat Rodney King were declared not guilty and released), the NRA ramped up the fear, he said, and then personal carry, etc., was hugely promoted.
He talks about how the NRA has brought about fear to market their guns, with the elections of Obama (elected twice) being the major event that recently spurred gun sales.
Among other interesting statistics: 2/3 of the guns in the US are in 13 southern states.
Listen to the podcast! What the Gun Guy says should be understood by everyone. The NRA IS the problem.
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Great Podcast insight on how the NRA drummed up fear after Rodney King event -- (Original Post)
Akamai
Jul 2016
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DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)1. IRA? nt
Akamai
(1,779 posts)2. National Rifle Association, that poisonous group led by Wayne LaPierre and his band of feral crazies
JHB
(37,166 posts)3. You should correct the subject line of the OP
It says IRA, not NRA
I was wondering how the Irish Republican Army fitted into this.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)6. Thanks! Subtlety is generally beyond my reckoning.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)5. They had quite a long arm in those days. A word was spoke in Antrim
and it was made to happen in L.A.
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)7. this is why everyone I know in OC and Riverside who has guns has them
they have this fantasy that Watts or Rodney King will happen all over, and the Southsiders will trek 50-100 miles to loot their cul-de-sac ranch houses; that's also why they're so hysterically against transit