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NBA joins Everytown in TV ads against gun violence (VIDEO)
guns.com ^ | 12/23/2015 | Jared Morgan

Posted on 12/23/2015 4:08:28 PM PST by rktman

NBA joins Everytown in TV ads against gun violence (VIDEO)

The NBA is calling for an end to gun violence. The basketball association is teaming up with Everytown for Gun Safety to release a series of public service announcements to be televised during games on Christmas Day, the New York Times reported.

The TV spots focus on victims of gun violence, who recount their stories along with NBA players who bring their own unique perspectives.

(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1st; 2a; banglist; bball; nba
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Uh, yeah, the nba NOT the NRA. So b-ball fans, do you not watch any games coming up? I don't watch them anyway so I won't see them. Any b-ball fans in FReeper world? Just asking.
1 posted on 12/23/2015 4:08:28 PM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Guns in the hands of good people reduces gun violence.


2 posted on 12/23/2015 4:10:10 PM PST by uncitizen (Pray for Donald Trump)
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Ninety percent of the gun violence in America is carried out by NBA fans.


3 posted on 12/23/2015 4:11:19 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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LOL! Then there’s this over at Bearingarms.com:

http://bearingarms.com/nba-vows-marginalize-pro-basketball-pushing-gun-control-fans/

Yeah, le brawl james is gonna tell me how to act. Right.


4 posted on 12/23/2015 4:11:22 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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If I watched basketball, I’d boycott. I’m just not into watching grown men running around in their underwear while bouncing a big rubber ball.


5 posted on 12/23/2015 4:15:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The biggest liars in the liberal media have started referring to themselves as fact checkers. Sad.)
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Okay NBA, take your sorry dysfunctional asses into the areas where the most gun violence happens and sell your blarney line of crap. Let me know how that turns out.

P^^%ys.


6 posted on 12/23/2015 4:15:35 PM PST by AbnSarge
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It would be a PR coup IF the NRA did join in against illegal gun violence within a strict definition. I’m not sure how they could go about it but I am sure they would be shunned and mocked but they could prove a point that the guns aren’t bad, it is the criminal that is bad.


7 posted on 12/23/2015 4:16:58 PM PST by BipolarBob
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When NBA players get rid of their guns and their armed guards then they can talk, otherwise they can shut their damn traps


8 posted on 12/23/2015 4:18:41 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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And ya know... stop committing gun crimes.

http://nbacrimelibrary.com/category/5-reason-for-arrest/gun-crime/


9 posted on 12/23/2015 4:52:29 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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I stopped watching the NBA when they stopped calling traveling violations.


10 posted on 12/23/2015 4:58:07 PM PST by hadaclueonce (I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
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Is anyone FOR gun violence?


11 posted on 12/23/2015 5:00:14 PM PST by upsdriver (Palin/West)
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I’m just not into watching grown men running around in their underwear while bouncing a big rubber ball.

Their ILL-FITTING underwear!


12 posted on 12/23/2015 5:03:13 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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What needs to be curbed is BLACK violence.

Without blacks pulling the triggers nobody would be getting shot.

Screw the NBA.


13 posted on 12/23/2015 5:04:51 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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Why are FReepers hating on the NBA? Just like hip-hop. These young black men made it out of the hoods and are now earning millions of dollars.

I don't agree with this, though.

14 posted on 12/23/2015 5:09:09 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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That must have been long, long ago. I had to stop looking (on the very rare occasion that I watched) because I was tired of counting, lol.


15 posted on 12/23/2015 5:13:36 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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Yeah, but they’re junior varsity.

Or so I heard once......


16 posted on 12/23/2015 5:14:57 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Bogey78O

Gilbert Arenas is gonna be devastated..and so will all the other NBA players who have committed gun crimes


17 posted on 12/23/2015 5:19:22 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: hadaclueonce

That would have been when Togo Palazzi retired.


18 posted on 12/23/2015 5:24:53 PM PST by certrtwngnut (Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
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To: hadaclueonce
I stopped watching the NBA when they stopped calling traveling violations.

And quit dribbling the ball
19 posted on 12/23/2015 5:33:35 PM PST by uncbob
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hip Hop and the NBA—if they want to see the solution to the vast majority of gun deaths they just need a mirror. If there was no NBA or Hip Hop most of these weapons grade asshats would be convicts. Speaks volumes about how shallow and corrupt their lives are.


20 posted on 12/23/2015 6:30:46 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy (It's not racism..... it's probability, actuarial tables, statistics. Facts are stubborn things.)
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