# Fuck the NRA **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184 "2015-10-01T23:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![canned\_mayhem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/21 "2015-10-02T02:21:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Fuck the NRA. Doesn’t matter why this guy did what he did. The NRA is a domestic terrorist organization and needs to be suppressed with extreme prejudice. LMAO I immediately got this mental image of some pissed off old hippie with a latte and rolled up New York Times attempting to “suppress” an NRA fellow with a CCW. Me thinks it will not end up how you think it’s gonna end up, bub… ---
**Author:** ![Grsz11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grsz11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grsz11)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/22 "2015-10-02T02:24:12Z")
Its not that the NRA supports gun ownership, its that they have managed to completely shutdown any rational debate over gun violence with strawmen arguments and way more influence than they actually merit. Now even mentioning gun violence (outside of the context of black urban youth) is taboo and means your only intention is to take away all guns. The organization, its members, and its puppets in Congress need to fucking go pound sand. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/23 "2015-10-02T02:27:30Z")
How much of their influence is due to their shrewd strategizing and how much is due to the fact that every politician knows that everyone of their member is armed and that some of them ain’t wrapped too tight? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/24 "2015-10-02T02:37:53Z")
Proposal: Congress grows a pair and requires that every firearm in the United States have 95% of its surface area be a bright neon pink. All after-market accessories must comply with this law as well. Give everybody 1 year to get them colored, then possession of one not compliant gets you a $10,000 fine, confiscation of weapons and a permanent ban on gun possession. Let’s see how long the ammosexuals fetishize their guns when they look like something from the Mary Kay catalog. ---
**Author:** ![canned\_mayhem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/25 "2015-10-02T02:42:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Proposal: Congress grows a pair and requires that every firearm in the United States have 95% of its surface area be a bright neon pink. All after-market accessories must comply with this law as well. Give everybody 1 year to get them colored, then possession of one not compliant gets you a $10,000 fine, confiscation of weapons and a permanent ban on gun possession. Let’s see how long the ammosexuals fetishize their guns when they look like something from the Mary Kay catalog. Or we could make guns illegal so no one would have any. Like drugs… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/26 "2015-10-02T02:42:57Z")
> **[‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens](https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527)** > > ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass... ---
**Author:** ![Grsz11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grsz11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grsz11)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/27 "2015-10-02T02:43:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Proposal: Congress grows a pair and requires that every firearm in the United States have 95% of its surface area be a bright neon pink. All after-market accessories must comply with this law as well. Give everybody 1 year to get them colored, then possession of one not compliant gets you a $10,000 fine, confiscation of weapons and a permanent ban on gun possession. Let’s see how long the ammosexuals fetishize their guns when they look like something from the Mary Kay catalog. Uh oh, do they love guns more then they hate them there queerosexuals? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/28 "2015-10-02T03:14:32Z")
Pink is so…Maricopa. Bright bilious day-glo lime yellow. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/29 "2015-10-02T03:51:58Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > For example, recent research iirc has shown that violent video games can lead to real life in violence prone people. You know, this idea would actually hold water if the gun violence problem was only about 30 years old. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/30 "2015-10-02T04:11:27Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > You know, this idea would actually hold water if the gun violence problem was only about 30 years old. Gotta blame gun violence on _something!_ It couldn’t possibly be fucked up morons given easy access to guns? Could it? ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/31 "2015-10-02T04:40:32Z")
Just to go with the theme of the thread, we should bomb Iraq. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/32 "2015-10-02T07:18:15Z")
Like that quote about libertarians, I’d have a lot more respect for anti-gun law advocates if they’d just say, “Yeah, our way will lead to more gun violence and deaths, especially mass shootings, but that’s the price we have to pay for upholding the Constitution and keeping the government in check.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/33 "2015-10-02T08:56:48Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Again :rolleyes: > > How is that blaming the victims? What exactly do you think blaming the victim is? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/34 "2015-10-02T10:24:03Z")
I agree. I prefer the [GOA](https://www.gunowners.org/). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/35 "2015-10-02T11:20:21Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > LMAO > > I immediately got this mental image of some pissed off old hippie with a latte and rolled up New York Times attempting to “suppress” an NRA fellow with a CCW. > > Me thinks it will not end up how you think it’s gonna end up, bub… Soooo… What your saying is that they’re an organization dedicated to impeding political and societal change through implied threats of violence? Sounds kinda terroristy to me. And distinctly unamerican. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/36 "2015-10-02T12:05:52Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > sept 2015 join date :rolleyes: I agree with him and I joined 2001. My opinion is ten years more valid than yours. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/37 "2015-10-02T12:32:00Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Like that quote about libertarians, I’d have a lot more respect for anti-gun law advocates if they’d just say, “Yeah, our way will lead to more gun violence and deaths, especially mass shootings, but that’s the price we have to pay for upholding the Constitution and keeping the government in check.” I think Crafter Man has said as much. If I recall correctly (and he can correct me if I’m wrong here, he’s obviously aware of this thread) he doesn’t care about the tyranny aspect, he just likes guns and is sees people dying due to weak gun laws as a fair trade. It stuck in my mind as it was such a change from the usual gun rights bullshit you get from the likes of Lumpy and Dumari Abujani or whatever that fool’s handle is. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/38 "2015-10-02T12:40:40Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Just so I dont :rolleyes: all the time this is a multifaceted problem. For example, recent research iirc has shown that violent video games can lead to real life in violence prone people. Do you have a cite for this? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/39 "2015-10-02T13:31:16Z")
“In violence prone people”. Yes, I suppose its true, in violence prone people. So might My Little Pony. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184/40 "2015-10-02T14:11:27Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I agree. I prefer the [GOA](https://www.gunowners.org/). Certainly preferable. I go with [DU](http://www.ducks.org/), myself. . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-nra/733184.md?page=3)