Just when you think things couldn't get worse, the new NRA president comes along to add fuel to the fire. I don't know a lot about Keane (the out-going president) but this guy is way out there. Then we've got LaPierre preaching to the choir, but since they are definitely on his side he really ramps up the rhetoric, probably seeking to whip the crowd into a frenzy as he lords over them.
Images come to mind: Klan leaders whipping up the KKK to strike up fear of blacks and Jews, Goebbels and Hitler stirring up fears of the Jews are a couple that pop up. They (NRA leadership and closely associated folks) are becoming a very frightening segment of our society. They are successfully convincing a lot of people that the government and Obama are going to take away every single firearm in the country and every single bullet, when it is clearly not so. Their propaganda machine is becoming relentless and needs to be countered.
What is sad is the level of blind ignorance and sheeplike behavior on the part of the people who have fallen prey to this sort of right-wing, fascistic bullshit. I'm sure that many didn't actually believe this stuff in the recent past, but they must go around thinking 'well if Mr. LaPierre says it's true then it must be.'
It's getting to the point when a mob mentality will finally rise to the surface and some group of yahoos will do something heinous in the name of 'protecting the 2nd amendment' and someone will end up dead. If and when that happens count me in as 'not surprised or shocked.'
Images come to mind: Klan leaders whipping up the KKK to strike up fear of blacks and Jews, Goebbels and Hitler stirring up fears of the Jews are a couple that pop up. They (NRA leadership and closely associated folks) are becoming a very frightening segment of our society. They are successfully convincing a lot of people that the government and Obama are going to take away every single firearm in the country and every single bullet, when it is clearly not so. Their propaganda machine is becoming relentless and needs to be countered.
What is sad is the level of blind ignorance and sheeplike behavior on the part of the people who have fallen prey to this sort of right-wing, fascistic bullshit. I'm sure that many didn't actually believe this stuff in the recent past, but they must go around thinking 'well if Mr. LaPierre says it's true then it must be.'
It's getting to the point when a mob mentality will finally rise to the surface and some group of yahoos will do something heinous in the name of 'protecting the 2nd amendment' and someone will end up dead. If and when that happens count me in as 'not surprised or shocked.'
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