Posted on 11/21/2015 4:15:12 PM PST by MtnClimber
The mainstream media is—once again—carrying out a nakedly partisan attack on the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, the National Rifle Association. This time the mainstream “news†organizations are attempting to assert that the NRA is a bunch of radicals that is so “gun crazy†that they even support terrorists buying guns.
The Daily News made that absurd claim earlier in the week, and the network of Dan Rather is doing so today.
Reality, of course, is something quite different.
The National Rifle Association is both a firearms training organization and a civil rights group, and opposes long-running Democrat attempts to abuse utterly arbitrary terror watch lists ripe for abuse as a method for unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats to “other†American citizens and resident aliens, stripping them of human rights.
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It is the only one that supports civil rights for ALL Americans—equally.
The attacks are getting crazier this election cycle. The left thinks they can pull it off with 0bama in office.
I believe also started by a black man?
No.
William Conant Church and George Wood Wingate started it. Ambrose Burnside was the first president. I don’t know how that happened. Maybe they figured that if he was busy playing with rifles it would keep him away from the explosives. ;)
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