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Originally Posted by kane
They also hurt themselves badly in the last month or so. After that school shooting they had the perfect opportunity to sit down with lawmakers and have an intelligent, meaningful and reasonable discussion on ways to help keep guns away from those who are mentally ill and might use them in this manner. They could have acted in a responsible manner. Instead they just said we need more guns and armed guards in schools. They also said it was violent video games causing this then the very next day released their own first person shooter game.
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im not sure what damage they did to themselves. Their message is not intended for the blue states. The red states are still a far different culture. the divisions of the civil war have never fully resolved; the education & income of red states lags the coasts enough that the USA really has 2 distinctive cultures that are at war in congress.
to me the measure of NRA clout will be what bill gets through congress in light of all this publicity surrounding gun violence. If republicans in the house can't bring themselves to vote for anything, i think the NRA wins, as they dont need to persuade the nation at large, just the congressmen who rely on red voters for their jobs.