At NRA Convention Trump Helps Stoke Fear, Feed Gun Industry Profits

[billh58]

From the moment Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, certain members of the media have been eagerly predicting his pivot away from the far right into the mainstream of American politics.

Today, while collecting the National Rifle Association’s endorsement at the group’s annual convention, he continued to keep both his campaign and his rhetoric firmly rooted in the policies and rhetoric of the far right. Trump began his speech by claiming that Hillary Clinton wants to “abolish the Second Amendment.” Politifact rated this Trump claim “false” nine days ago.

In uttering this lie, Trump aligns himself with a longstanding NRA strategy. In both 2008 and 2012, the organization and its leadership made similar claims about Barack Obama, yet none of them ever came to pass. NRA board member Grover Norquist even acknowledged these statements were hyperbole.

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As Jarret Murphy explained in The Nation:

There is no divorcing the politics of guns from their profits. America’s gun lobby and gun industry both benefit from creating a fearful vision of life in the United States—a picture of criminals constantly menacing our families and a government hellbent on taking our guns—that is very effective at selling weapons. In fact, in large part because of the way anxieties about his gun policies have been manipulated, the Obama era has been a golden age for firearms manufacturers, and the run-up to Election 2012 could be for Glock and Remington what the Christmas shopping season is for Macy’s and Sears: a time to cash in before the narrative changes.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/nra-convention-trump-helps-stoke-fear-feed-gun-industry-profits

There are those right here on DU who parrot the bogus right-wing claim that Democrats (especially HRC) want to "take your guns." They are enablers of the ALEC/NRA/ILA propaganda machine that uses the Second Amendment to sell more guns, and flood our streets with more gun violence.

Support a Democrat who is not afraid to take on the right-wing gun lobby, or those politicians on both sides of the aisle who corruptly take their blood money for a favorable NRA "score."