Incendiary N.R.A. Videos Find New Critics: N.R.A. Leaders – The New York Times

ImageWayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s chief executive, speaking at the organization’s annual meeting last year. There is growing discomfort among leaders at the N.R.A. over the videos its streaming service produces.CreditCreditJustin Sullivan/Getty Images The flash point was Thomas the Tank Engine. Last September, the National Rifle Association’s famously combative spokeswoman, Dana Loesch, provoked widespread…

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Piss Off, Brian Stelter

Photo: Getty It did not take long for America’s despicable conservative movement to lose its goddamn mind about the campaign by Parkland shooting survivors to, you know, not be shot in their classrooms. Laura Ingraham is just the tip of the vile iceberg; look in the fever swamps of right-wing Twitter and you’ll see that…

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The NRA Is a Terrorist Organization

A demonstrator from CodePink holds up a banner as National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks during a news conference at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 21, 2012. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Media outlets and politicians in mourning have all offered thoughts, prayers and not much else for the most…

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The Idea That Women Use Guns For Self-Defense Against Men Is A Big Lie | The Huffington Post

If you listen to the National Rifle Association, every woman in America should carry a gun so she can protect herself from dangerous strangers, domestic abusers and potential rapists. The message is that firearms make women safer, despite clear research showing that they actually have the exact opposite effect. A new study from the Violence…

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