# NRA decides the 1st Amendment is making them look bad, seeks limits

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**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-decides-the-1st-amendment-is-making-them-look-bad-seeks-limits/814768 "2018-05-25T01:53:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-decides-the-1st-amendment-is-making-them-look-bad-seeks-limits/814768/37 "2018-05-25T19:47:24Z")

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> [@CarnalK](#):
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> What the fuck is your problem? Do you think they’ll start shooting police if stricter gun laws are enacted? Despite what some of you frantic ninnies are saying, the NRA is a gun rights advocacy group, not an organized militia/terrorist group waiting to spring into action.

Yeah. Because of posts like this:

> [@Do "hardened schools" prevent mass shootings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-hardened-schools-prevent-mass-shootings/814617/21):
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> You’d also have to hire about 100000 ATF agents to go door to door to get rid of those 300 Million guns already there. And expect about 10000 Ruby Ridge situations. With of course many tens of thousands of LE and gun owners dead.
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> The casualty count would exceed the school shootings by many, many times.

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