Gun reformers must rethink what they want and learn how to talk to gun owners. Unless they can start the conversation by credibly saying no one is ever going to come for your guns, they will likely continue to fail.
Major League Baseball and the National Rifle Association are each a century and a half old. But while MLB celebrates its history, the NRA buries and rewrites its own, likely because its true history is inconvenient for its modern plans.
Republican Party leaders finally called out Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — a supporter of QAnon and the big lie about the 2020 election — after she compared health measures requiring facemasks, to Jews in the Holocaust forced to wear Stars of David. But the National Rifle Association has manipulated the Holocaust to advance its modern political agenda, too.
Gun groups have been circulating for months what they call the “Biden plan to destroy the Second Amendment.” They claim that this is the fateful step that could start the slide to disarmament, and then genocide.
The financial scandal that erupted inside the National Rifle Association reminded me of a scandal nearly a century before. NRA leaders back then, however, handled it differently from the way leaders have done today.
Parkland student Emma Gonzalez’s question was on point, but NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch never answered it.
The weapon is a modification of the M-16 rifle. Its round is designed to maximize damage to tissue and bone.
