Commentary: The NRA's gun market crisis (barf alert)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 22 mar 2017 | Firmin DeBrabander

[rellimpank]

The National Rifle Association spent a record amount to support Donald Trump's winning presidential campaign — upward of $30 million. While this investment looks wise now, recall that not long ago it was the height of insanity. Trump's campaign seemed doomed — but the NRA doubled down on its risky bet anyway, which threatened to marginalize it and undermine it politically.

I believe this bet testifies to the NRA's desperation. This sounds odd, I realize, when you consider how the gun lobby is racking up legislative victories — expanding "campus carry" and permitless concealed-carry gun laws at the state level, and making it easier for the mentally ill to access guns. But these radical moves stem from the ominous challenge that gun manufacturers rightly perceive.

[Telepathic Intruder]

No bias here. Must be real news.

[mad_as_he$$]

“...$30 million.....”

Mice nuts in presidential elections.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Firmin DeBrabander?! LOL! I’m sorry. Can’t deal with this. The jokes write themselves here.

[DBrow]

“and making it easier for the mentally ill to access guns.”

Ding Ding Ding FAKE NEWS ALERT

[smokingfrog]

..making it easier for the mentally ill to access guns.

Why do you lie like a dog?

[mountn man]

. Even so, the percentage of Americans who own a gun has continued to fall over the past 20 years, and, according to a recent eye-opening study by public health researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities, fully half the private arsenal in America is owned by a mere 3 percent of gun owners. These "superowners" have, on average, 17 guns apiece. This, while interest in hunting wanes and the percentage of young Americans buying guns has plummeted.

Living near Chicago, it's tripe like this that I have to constantly hear and read.

[EagleUSA]

“The National Rifle Association spent a record amount to support Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign — upward of $30 million....”

Good.

[jeffersondem]

“Trump’s campaign seemed doomed — but the NRA doubled down on its risky bet anyway, which threatened to marginalize it and undermine it politically.”

Because supporting Hillary Clinton would have made so much more sense . . .

Idiot.

[farming pharmer]

Vermin DeGenderBender sounds like an angry little faggot. I’m going to pop off a few rounds for you today, Vermin...

[DBrow]

And yet, they persisted...

[ConservativeWarrior]

The author probably pees a little when they walk past the hunting section in Dick’s Sporting Goods.

[rktman]

Oh, that EXTREMIST organization as difi calls it?

[Twinkie]

Nah. His real name is SAGGY DE-BRABAND-ER - Nothing “firm”
about him OR her, or whoever she or he is.

[Impala64ssa]

Firmin DeBrabander?! LOL! I’m sorry. Can’t deal with this. The jokes write themselves here.
That moniker sounds rather....titilating ☺

[jeffersondem]

“And what else shall we make of the latest NRA initiative, making it easier for people deemed mentally ill to get their hands on guns?”

From seeing mainstream media reports, I was under the impression the criminally insane could already order an AR15 machine gun with bayonet lug by mail through some loophole.

What could be easier than that?

[umgud]

$30 million? Chump change compared to what Soros spent on the election and protests.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL!

[JimRed]

Would that they’d spend as much trying to get unconstitutional state laws overturned. Many states don’t seem to understand “shall not be infringed”.

[raybbr]

Re Firmin DeBrabander: "" He has organized several symposia in honor of Constitution Day at the college, including such speakers as John Waters, Helen Thomas, Angela Davis, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, Amy Goodman, Andrew Sullivan, and Cornel West."

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Yep, cause all those people are Constitutional scholars...