Nicaraguan Rifle Association?

[lomiller]

And experience selling them, to boot!

Not just selling them, selling them illegally to people who shouldn’t have them. How much more symbolic of the NRA can you get!

 

[Upchurch]

Not just selling them, selling them illegally to people who shouldn’t have them. How much more symbolic of the NRA can you get!

 

[Babbylonian]

Not just selling them, selling them illegally to people who shouldn’t have them.

...and getting away with it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Oliver North the newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/9/oliver-north-readies-nra-counterpunch-against-gun-/

 

[Upchurch]

Oliver North the newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/9/oliver-north-readies-nra-counterpunch-against-gun-/

Well, he is correct that they didn’t have the internet during Jim Crow. Other that, North can take his fragility and stick it in his shredder.

 

[Stacko]

Oliver North the newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/9/oliver-north-readies-nra-counterpunch-against-gun-/

So, he's going to sell guns to the Iranians to fund them?

 

[Upchurch]

NRA/gun debate discussions are going to be peppered with Iran-Contra references for the foreseeable future, aren’t they?

 

[quadraginta]

<snip>

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/9/oliver-north-readies-nra-counterpunch-against-gun-/

Pretty good job of false equivalency, right there.

Apparently the protests against the NRA are worse than cross burnings, beatings, lynchings, corrupt law enforcement, stacked juries, and segregation.

To name a few.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Oliver North the newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/9/oliver-north-readies-nra-counterpunch-against-gun-/

That's really horrible "people who hold a different opinion to me are equivalent to indiscriminate murderers and worse than racists". At least he's shown his colours quickly and saved anyone wasting their time giving him the benefit of the doubt.

 

[autumn1971]

Because the "club" has a ridiculous amount of political power in the US and works against any proposed gun control law.

They also fight against the implementation of laws on the books that they lie about supporting.

 

[autumn1971]

Oliver North the newly elected president of the National Rifle Association has claimed that gun control activists, like those who have emerged following a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, are “civil terrorists.”

“They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” Oliver North told the Washington Times. “You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/9/oliver-north-readies-nra-counterpunch-against-gun-/

"Those aren't bullet wounds in those dead children, those are Freedom Holes."

 

[casebro]

Wasn't North's temporary conviction having to do with a tax deduction for a security fence around his home?

 

[Upchurch]

Wasn't North's temporary conviction having to do with a tax deduction for a security fence around his home?

I literally have no idea what this is in reference to.

 

[ponderingturtle]

NRA/gun debate discussions are going to be peppered with Iran-Contra references for the foreseeable future, aren’t they?

Hey they chose who to represent them, and they like his history of not letting laws or morals get in the way of weapons sales.

 

[ponderingturtle]

That's really horrible "people who hold a different opinion to me are equivalent to indiscriminate murderers and worse than racists". At least he's shown his colours quickly and saved anyone wasting their time giving him the benefit of the doubt.

This just shows how well he represents the NRA though. As the biggest voice for gun owners they clearly love this kind of talk.

 

[applecorped]

Time well spent

 

[crescent]

Wasn't North's temporary conviction having to do with a tax deduction for a security fence around his home?

I literally have no idea what this is in reference to.

One of the things North was convicted of was receiving an "illegal gratuity" - that was the home security system. Not a tax dodge, more like a bribe:

Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs: Oliver North

In addition, North was charged with accepting illegal money in exchange for government services because he allowed Secord to pay for his home-security system.

Ultimately, a jury found North guilty of obstruction of congressional inquiries, destroying NSC documents, and receiving an illegal gratuity.

The convictions were later vacated.

 

[Upchurch]

One of the things North was convicted of was receiving an "illegal gratuity" - that was the home security system. Not a tax dodge, more like a bribe:

Thanks.

 

[Cleon]

I swear, if the NRA was controlled by a secret cabal of anti-gun liberals trying to make gun owners look like dangerous lunatics, I don't know how they'd be behaving differently than they are right now.

 

[ponderingturtle]

I swear, if the NRA was controlled by a secret cabal of anti-gun liberals trying to make gun owners look like dangerous lunatics, I don't know how they'd be behaving differently than they are right now.

Promoting Ted Nugent instead of Oliver North from board member to president?