Two days after what many in the media declared a disastrous press conference, the NRA’s David Keene and Wayne LaPierre will appear on the Sunday morning talk shows tomorrow. Will their interviewers be hostile? Most likely, but that doesn’t compare to the sentiment expressed in multiple petitions on the official White House site, asking for the government to declare the NRA a terrorist organization.
One petition, currently parked at 3 signatures, declares that the NRA has “encouraged and enabled the use of violence by facilitating the spread of modern day weapons of mass destruction through instilling fear in politicians and the general populace as a political objective in stopping the rational and reasonable regulation of weapons of mass destruction.” Another accuses the NRA of promoting gun ownership “to advance an anti-government, quasi-revolutionary ideology” and says “the NRA’s advocacy of violence for ideological reasons places Americans at an unreasonable and unacceptable risk of death.”
That petition has only 7 out of 25,000 required signatures, but that doesn’t mean the sentiment isn’t there.
Just enough energy to say that the NRA yesterday was disgusting. They truly are a terrorist organization. SHUT THEM DOWN.
— Alexander Stuart (@AlexChowStuart) December 22, 2012
And Walmart is the largest merchant of death in the country – with ties to the terrorist NRA. The NRA is America's Taliban.
— Alexander Stuart (@AlexChowStuart) December 22, 2012
https://twitter.com/NormanMaddeaux/status/282517512351006720
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Isn't it about time the #NRA was banned as a terrorist organisation?
— Chris (@AnyUniqueName_) December 22, 2012
@rudepundit until we can call the NRA what they really are a terrorist group and treat like a true terrorist group they will always kill
— Kelly C (@kscolburn21) December 22, 2012
https://twitter.com/zabmustefa/status/282536811245481984
U see there absolutely no difference btwn the #NRA and all other terrorist groups. #guncontrol
— kgoliso Nare (@kgoliso) December 22, 2012
@Mama3Cubs Yes, we have 2 get people who pay dues to #NRA to stop paying them. They are now a terrorist organization.
— Kathy (@mydoggigi) December 22, 2012
https://twitter.com/timcurrell/status/282576518213943296
Dear students of the USA, your 2 missions for 2013. Seek annulment of 2nd Amendment and classification of NRA as terrorist organisation.
— Andrew Edsor (@caymsortweeted) December 22, 2012
@JohnParisella Can't they charge the NRA with racketeering? Un-American activities? Declare it a terrorist organization?
— Kevin Dougherty (@doughertykr) December 22, 2012
https://twitter.com/ApostateMike/status/282610933229035520
@NRA = Terrorist Weapon of Mass Destruction. BAN IT.
— Humanista (@eEpicurus) December 22, 2012
The @NRA was founded the SAME YEAR that the Klan was legally designated a "terrorist organization" #NotACoincidence #NOwayNRA
— Voltaire Slapadelic (@Slapadelic) December 23, 2012
Time to declare wayne LaPierre a #Terrorist and #NRA a Terrorist organization.
— #TheResistance (@eqracer) December 23, 2012
In the meantime, others credit the backlash against the NRA with inspiring them to become members, while President Obama’s call for “meaningful action” and “change” sent others to stand in line at gun stores. Will an online petition demand that he address the NRA directly?
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