Joe Biden at #DemDebate2 (HE SAID IT)!!!

[LovingA2andMI]

"Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA."

WTH??

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He's actually correct, because the NRA is basically just the marketing arm

of the gun industry. The gun industry makes the NRA possible.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Indeed

[PatSeg]

14. Good point

[UniteFightBack]

3. I knew you wouldn't be able to help yourself. nt

[IluvPitties]

4. The NRA is just the marketing arm of the industry.

He's right.

[LovingA2andMI]

9. Ummm....

Just five of the 23 reasons.....

23 reasons why the NRA is racist

"In the October edition of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) magazine America’s 1st Freedom, NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre takes on what he calls the “false notion” from the “gun-ban media” that “somehow the NRA is racist.”

Outlets covering the NRA and race should consider these examples -- starting with LaPierre himself -- in evaluating his claims:

After Hurricane Sandy struck New York City and other parts of the East Coast in 2013, LaPierre was criticized for writing an op-ed in which he falsely claimed that “looters ran wild in south Brooklyn” and fearmongered about “Latin American drug gangs.” Conservative commentator Joe Scarborough described the claims as “so laced with racial overtones.” Progressive commentator Touré pointed out that LaPierre “spoke of supposedly rampant crime and murder in some place he called South Brooklyn. … Put aside that no reporting bears that out. I live in Brooklyn, I have for a long time, and there is no place referred to as South Brooklyn, but I think it’s safe to say that when he says that, much of the country envisions a place clogged with black people.”

During the NRA’s 2015 annual meeting, LaPierre referenced the end of the Obama administration and told the crowd, “Eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough.” Reacting to the comment, Pulitzer-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote, “LaPierre traded his dog whistle for an air horn.”

During a 2014 speech, LaPierre adopted conservative media’s racially charged claims about the (nonexistent) “knockout game” phenomenon -- in which black youths supposedly assault unsuspecting, mostly white, victims on the street for fun -- to hype gun ownership.

Activists and some gun owners castigated the NRA for its feckless response to the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, a black, law-abiding gun owner, by a Minnesota police officer in 2016.

Despite its purported hyperfocus on terrorism, the NRA’s news show was silent after a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a group of anti-racist demonstrators, killing activist Heather Heyer and wounding 19 others, during a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, VA, in August.

NRATV, one of the NRA’s media outlets, recently hired conservative commentator Bill Whittle, who has a long track record of making race-baiting comments. Whittle has promoted discredited theories that posit black people are less innately intelligent than members of other races and claimed that African-Americans commit voter fraud on behalf of Democrats as a condition of ongoing slavery. Whittle also once said that people in inner cities are “unemployable -- unemployed and unemployable -- they’ve been on assistance their entire lives, they’ve never had to work before,” and that these people should get jobs because a job “beats the laziness” out of people and “disciplines” them into “civility.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/09/27/23-reasons-why-nra-racist/218065

[highplainsdem]

5. There've been plenty of surveys showing more than 70% of NRA MEMBERS favor gun control

measures that NRA leadership and the gun manufacturers controlling that leadership are opposed to.

Joe was differentiating between the members and the corrupt leadership.

[LovingA2andMI]

10. Uh huh....

n/t

[highplainsdem]

13. Be skeptical if you want. Trump distrusts the news, too.

https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2015/11/17/125618/release-gun-owners-overwhelmingly-support-background-checks-see-nra-as-out-of-touch-new-poll-finds/


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-12/most-gun-owners-support-stricter-laws-even-nra-members


https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/28/strong-majority-of-americans-nra-members-back-gun-control

[LovingA2andMI]

15. FYI....

This is going to get old quick:

"Kamala Harris is doing exactly what Trump wants." - Joe Biden (after he lost DemDebate2 to Kamala Harris).

Real Old, Real Quick.

Have a lovely evening....

[crazytown]

6. And Pete said 'But gun manufactures fund the NRA'

he was cut off.

[LovingA2andMI]

11. And Pete Was....

Right on point. Thanks Pete.

[Raven123]

7. Seemed a bit inarticulate

Could have just said he’d target gun manufacturers without that comment.

[LovingA2andMI]

12. Yep....

Indeed.