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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 08:54 AM Jun 2018

NRA Complaint: Child Detention Centers Are 'Too Nice'

Oliver Willis

June 24, 2018 4:50 am

The NRA is promoting the ridiculous allegation that children who’ve been ripped apart from their families are being held in facilities that are “too nice.”

Chuck Holton, a correspondent for the gun extremist organization’s propaganda outlet, NRA-TV, made the extraordinary claim during a segment discussing the Trump administration’s harsh anti-family policy.

Holton was attempting to defend the assault on families by falsely alleging that the Trump policy was “essentially the same” as President Barack Obama’s. But Trump chose to differentiate himself from both Obama and George W. Bush before him by prosecuting all border crossers, triggering family separation.

Holton then took his argument further and said, “I’ve visited those facilities. Those facilities, if anything, are too nice.”

He later added that the children were kept in a “very safe, secure environment with hot showers, probably for the first time in their lives, with three hot meals a day, with games to play and education and health screenings.” He even marveled that “they were given free phone calls back to their homes.”

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http://www.nationalmemo.com/nra-complaint-child-detention-centers-are-too-nice/

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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
5. The NRA has been xenophobic for decades.
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 09:38 AM
Jun 2018

LaPierre rails against Muslims and brown immigrants to stoke gear and fear sells guns. It is a terrorist organization. The NRA formed Stephen Miller's racist attitude beginning in high school.

Paladin

(28,266 posts)
8. Yeah, how many times have DU pro-gunners described the NRA as a "single-issue" group?
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 10:15 AM
Jun 2018

Such bullshit.

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