#nra blood money

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Republicans are charlatans and lunatics. They are puppets of Putin and billionaire oligarchs. They are not a serious party and should not be holding positions of power. Their only purpose is to allow oligarchs and corporations to plunder America and to turn back the clock on the domestic front to the dark ages.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Wayne LaPierre is a draft dodging Russian agent. Russia pays him to flood the streets with assault weapons to destabilize American democracy. He’s used millions from Russian oligarchs for a mansion on an island, private jets, limos, extravagant vacations, and 24/7/365 on call hairstylist and makeup artists for his wife.

[wardsutton]

Abbott speaking at the NRA Convention in Houston today, just days after the school shooting, inspired me to draw this.VOTE BETO, Texas!

[holyspoons]

“How many deaths will it take till we know that too many people have died?” 18 children and 1 teacher died. Hundreds terrorized.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/texas-elementary-school-shooting-05-24-22/index.html

[geezerwench]

I was once a member of the NRA. Back when they touted gun safety and training courses. When they sponsored shooting competitions and the like.

But then I saw the light and told them never to contact me again. They've become even more rabid since then. It's disturbing.

The NRA and the GOP need to be shut down and crushed. Locked away. The blood money to the Republicans needs to stop.

[the-one-and-only-grand-master]

There have been at least 163 mass shootings in the U.S. so far in 2023 (more than 1.5 per day). That number was 646 in 2022 and 690 in 2021 (almost 2 each day). In 2014, the year that began monitoring this data, there were 272 mass shootings.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[elmacheteillustrated]

scary movie

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Blood money hypocrites

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd_ZKdVJgfc/

[lost-carcosa]

[shallanspren]

so fucking sick of this fuckass country and its mass shootings.

[brookeolin]

Sister Rita, is that you?

Every republican’s wet dream: Sister Rita transforms into THE TERMINATOR! Every nra member’s rationale: arm the teachers, the nuns, the cashiers, the parking attendants, arm the doctors and nurses, arm the sports players, arm the sports fans, arm the bar tender, arm the waiter, arm the patients, arm the piano teachers, arm the kindergartens, arm the judges, arm the bakers and pastry chefs, arm lawyers, arm butchers, arm the cable technicians, arm the parents, arm the children, arm the fetuses, arm the eggs, arm the sperm, arm Jesus & the holy spirit, arm Mary, Our Lady Full of Grace... spread the love arms. Fuck republicans and their nra blood money; fuck the nra murderers, forever.

[lobotomyladylives]

You’re pro gun? I’m not from the USA so I’m just curious. I’d feel so anxious if people around me were carrying a gun.

Is it not scary to have a weapon that could possibly take someone’s life?

long winded rambling answer under the cut, to my many mutuals who hate america with a fiery passion (I get it #ally #hero #oneofthegoodones #pleasedontholdyourapplause) I advise that you scroll past this bc it's just an american talking about american issues & may cause your blood pressure to rise

So, I would say that I'm pro gun under specific circumstances-I carry a glock as a self defense weapon & am trained to use it, and I frequently advise other women to do so as well bc it's by far the most reliable way to stop an attacker that is larger & stronger than you are. Knives, tasers, & pepper spray, while better than nothing, all have significant limitations and downsides & due to being close range. An attacker can usually overpower you and take your weapon away once they get close. The idea is not to allow them to get close enough to disarm you in the first place. Guns are long range weapons and therefore ideal for protecting yourself. I actually feel WAY safer walking around while I'm carrying my gun than I ever did before! It's genuinely empowering imo.

All that being said...I obviously don't like the fact that it's so easy for deranged men to buy weapons like AR-15s, which are designed not for self defense but to slaughter as many people in as little time as possible (there's a reason almost all mass shooters use this type of gun). I also hate the NRA & their lobbying efforts. Gun control is a really complicated issue that I think both sides simplify for the sake of winning an argument when there's really no easy solution to this problem. Yes, other countries have had success with outright bans, but the thing is we already have more guns than people in America, it's extremely easy for criminals to buy them illegally, so what libertarians say about gun control only applying to law abiding citizens is not entirely inaccurate imo.

The other thing is that trying to implement gun control to the level of other countries would legitimately start a civil war in the US. That's how strong gun culture is here. It doesn't help that the right to own a gun is baked into our constitution & that our government was founded on well organized militias overthrowing a tyrannical monarchy that had a more structured military.

Conservatives & libertarians (as well as many leftists, like me) think that there may come a time where we need to ride up against a tyrannical government again, and obviously a well armed population is a less vulnerable population. People say "well, the government has nukes, what are some guns going to do?!" but they're making several wrong assumptions about the nature of guerilla warfare, how civilian resistance operations are carried out, and what governments are generally willing to sacrifice. To explain it all would turn this already long answer into an essay but in short, the US government is not ever going to drop an atomic bomb on one of its own cities to get rid of some insurgents. It would kill their supporters as well, turn more people into radicals, the collateral damage & financial ruin involved is not a price any leader would be willing to pay unless they were actually clinically insane.

If I had to make the decisions myself I would focus primarily on the social problems that lead to violence as well as repairing the broken mental healthcare system in this country. Of course Republicans always SAY they want to do this whenever a shooting happens but they clearly don't give enough of a fuck about it to actually pass any legislature that would make accessing mental health services easier for people in poverty on account of them all being money hungry psychopaths.

[geezerwench]

NRA BLOOD MONEY

$1,267,139 Mitch McConnell

$1,269,486 Ron Johnson

$1,306,130 Marsha Blackburn

$1,968,714 Tom Cotton

$2,897,582 Todd Young

$3,063,327 Rob Portman

$3,124,773 Joni Ernst

$3,303,355 Marco Rubio

$13,647,676 Mitt Romney

Mass shootings are a Republican policy choice.