{"id":50074,"date":"2015-04-14T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/fear-sells-guns.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:55:29","slug":"fear-sells-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/fear-sells-guns.html","title":{"rendered":"Fear Sells Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that the NRA has morphed from a gun safety and hunter advocacy organization to a lobbying arm for gun and ammo manufacturers, it&#39;s little wonder that the NRA Convention is full of <i>EVIL MUSLIMS HAVE TAKEN OVER OUR CITIES AND ARE INVADING OUR PORTS, SO YOU BETTER HAVE GUNS TO STOP THEM<\/i> malarkey.  <\/p>\n<p>Gun <i>purchases<\/i> are up over-all in the US &#8230; but gun <i>ownership<\/i> continues to shrink, and <i>that<\/i> is the real threat facing the NRA&#39;s sponsors. And the only way to counter that is to gin up some existential terrorist threat to take over our cities (and, no doubt, to ravish our women-folk).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/04\/14\/3646567\/no-go-zones-nra-convention'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/tSvaJzxbF-Q2ByEZGBLGsePhxkPgvCLxKAs8KSMweF6qJe92BMdWbLQtomsE1ingpLMyDK0dFMZ1LZPVFfDQv6NLFok_awGBrjbqwioziPX0_m2fhOuGWQDWjTA7uRweenLgRJuWB4BZ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/04\/14\/3646567\/no-go-zones-nra-convention'>Islamic Extremists Have Seized Control Of U.S. Cities, Says NRA Seminar<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;I have seen it with my own eyes, witnessed it in the backseat of a car and it is for real. No-go zones exist in the United States,&#8221; the speaker told the NRA audience.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bT9yYjje6Xr'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that the NRA has morphed from a gun safety and hunter advocacy organization to a lobbying arm for gun and ammo manufacturers, it&#39;s little wonder that the NRA Convention is full of EVIL MUSLIMS HAVE TAKEN OVER OUR CITIES AND ARE INVADING OUR PORTS, SO YOU BETTER HAVE GUNS TO STOP THEM malarkey. Gun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/fear-sells-guns.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fear Sells Guns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38530,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/who-owns-guns.html","url_meta":{"origin":50074,"position":0},"title":"Who Owns Guns","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Aug-13 9:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"The NRA knows.On one level, this is all just \"big business aggregating data\" kind of stuff. Americans tend to be relatively insensitive to such things.Of course, a lot of the data obtained by the NRA wasn't just from their members, but from gun training classes, and, more importantly, from public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128254,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/whom-does-the-nra-speak-for.html","url_meta":{"origin":50074,"position":1},"title":"Whom does the NRA speak for?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-15 11:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I disagree with the conclusion of article, which says, \"The N.R.A. is no longer the voice of law-abiding gun owners, but rather a voice for criminals.\" The NRA is, in fact, a voice for gun manufacturers who are interested in maximizing sales of guns and ammunition, period. 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