Ok folks, WTH. I'll share relevant pieces I've written on the NRA today. I mean, I've written about every corrupt, crazy, white-nationalist aspect of US gun culture. But I'll keep it to the NRA. So between doing work, maybe 50 pieces I've written over the past 2 decades
Here NY State financial regulators took legal action to stop the NRA from selling an "illegal, NRA-branded insurance policy," aka Murder Insurance. Yup, they wanted to insure those committing "intentional wrongdoing" w their guns https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nras-cry-for-help
Back when I wrote some for AJE: "NRA: It's good to live like a king." ... I pointed out--shocking!--how obv corrupt was LaPierre. And I didn't even know the half of it! https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112375421439250.html
I was one of the first (it not first) to write about The Iron (Curtain) Triangle of Trumpistan, the NRA and who else(?!)--Vlad Putin! https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-david-clarke-bridges-donald-trumps-gun-nuts-and-vladimir-putins-kleptocrats?ref=author
As @TishJames has shown, NRA execs are the very definition of "elitist," a term they toss at all critics. I wrote about the vast differences--clear in polling--between NRA execs & members (whose $ we now know execs like LaPierre allegedly stole) https://www.salon.com/2012/07/24/gun_owners_vs_nra_leadership_salpart/
The NRA & OH GOPers thought there weren't enough guns in daycare centers or on college campuses: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohios-insane-guns-everywhere-bill-covers-airports-childcare-centers-and-even-police-stations?ref=author
Slight tv break from these heavy--yet necessary--columns. I got to debate NRA board member Cleta Mitchell on MSNBC ~a decade ago. I'd argue it was as much fun as one could have on cable news 😉
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