02-25-2018, 08:17 PM
(02-23-2018, 11:57 AM)Duchess Wrote:(02-22-2018, 04:01 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: speeches by NRA reps Dana Loesch and Wayne La Pierre at CPAC this morning.
I saw some of it. They all sound like lunatics!
trump is speaking before them now. He told them that if he can't build a strong military that one day they won't be allowed into CPAC and they probably won't even be able to have their houses anymore. Ahahaha! The crowd is eatin' it up. My God. It is so freakish to know there are so many seemingly well adjusted people who believe that drivel. It's unnerving. They aren't well adjusted at all!
I didn't watch Trump's speech at CPAC, but I bet I could tell you just about everything he said to that crowd (pretty much a repeat of his campaign rallies, plus a request for support in increasing rifle age limits and bump stock bans).
When I watched Loesch do her spiel at CPAC, she had a majorly different tone than she did at the Town Hall debate the day before.
She strikes me as the NRA's version of Kellyanne Conway; well-spoken, rather attractive, and a seasoned spinner who is willing to say anything (even lies and truly absurd assertions) to represent those paying her salary.
When Loesch very dramatically declared that the 'legacy media just loves mass shootings because they love the ratings that come with white mothers crying!', I immediately wrote her off as a flaming troll and a hypocrite.
The NRA benefits immensely from mass shootings when all the gun zealots run out and buy in bulk for fear that bans are coming. I haven't heard news anchors claim that the NRA loves mass murders though, even when some NRA groupies (here at Mock even) post celebratory sentiments about the revenue and profits to gun manufactures and dealers in the aftermath.
Anyway..........gun sales have been way down since Trump took office because the zealots weren't worried about new gun control measures under his regime before now. Remington even had to file for bankruptcy.
The mass shooting in Florida probably boosted the industry financially a bit temporarily, but it's also put the NRA and its stale rhetoric on the hot seat with a good deal of the public. I'm glad; the NRA needs to regroup, go back to its admirable roots, and be pushed out of political control.
NRA A+ rated politicians, including the President, are committing to some stricter gun controls despite objections from the NRA; politicians know voter sentiment is changing.
And, while the NRA claims it doesn't care, I bet they care a lot that so many of their major corporate sponsors and partners have dumped them over the last week (over 20 at last count). The Stoneman Douglas survivors and other gun safety activists are truly affecting change right now.