Think about it how fucked up this is.

[Stinky The Clown]

The gun manufacturers support the NRA with LOTS of money. Over the years they turned it from just another special interest group with special interest focus into a superlobby. A political force. A powerful organization with the sole purpose of selling more guns.

Meanwhile, the US government is almost certainly the biggest single customer of these gun manufacturers. It is an absolute certainty that your tax dollars and mine go from our pockets, to the government coffers, to the gun manufacturers, and then to the NRA. There are no regulations in place to prevent this pipeline from pumping our money into the promotion of devices with the sole purpose of killing.

Amazing as it may seem, each one of us paid, in some minute measure, to get the guns out there for assholes like the Bundys, drug dealers, the Mafia, Trump supporters, the Dallas shooter, and legions more social misfits.

Nice, huh?

[wiggs]

1. That stinks. nt

[Binkie The Clown]

2. I paid for the Vietnam war too.

It's inevitable that we pay for a lot things that we, personally, find objectionable or even abhorrent. It's part of turning over control of the details of running a country to others. It's either that, or be burdened, ourselves, with all the minutia. Complete control of where your money goes requires complete responsibility for every detail. All things considered, it's a reasonable price to pay for not having to allocate specific amounts in my tax return to each and every government program.

That, however, does not preclude advocating for changes in how the government spends that money. In the 60's I advocated for ending the Vietnam war, and today I advocate for less military spending. But I also accept that I can't control everything. Nor would I want to.

Even so, the NRA needs to to be put in its place. It's entirely too powerful.

[aikoaiko]

3. Are the financials for the NRA publicly available?

I would think the dues from 5 million members at $25 per year would far outweigh donations from the gun manufacturers.

I know a bunch of the members are lifetime so they paid a couple of hundred and are no longer required to contribute, but still, thats a bunch of money.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Kicking this from a few days ago. Still appropriate.

When you read a gunhumper extolling the humping of guns, just remember where all that bullshit comes from. Where it is developed and fed back as parrot food.

It comes from the gun lobby, gets shit out by the NRA, and lapped up by GUN HUMPERS.

But in the end, it comes from YOU. For the reasons cited in the OP.