Calling the NRA a terrorist organization in no longer just the purview of ex-Clinton staffers spending money on billboards.
Now, perhaps the most obnoxious non-student victim of the Parkland Shooting has joined in the NRA terrorist equivalence.
The Governor of Connecticut, Dan Malloy chimed in saying that the NRA has become a terrorist organization.
This is not just terrible rhetoric. There is a purpose to this.
There is a quote, often attributed to Josef Goebbels “if you tell a lie often enough, people will come to believe it.” There is no evidence that he said it, but it does seem to be true.
I think the end goal of pundits, sacred victims, PACs, and politicians calling the NRA a terrorist organization is to do just that. Have the NRA defined as a terrorist organization.
The FBI has a very specific definition of terrorism, which the NRA doesn’t meet. But if the lie is told often enough by important enough people than the momentum can be built to criminalize association with the NRA.
I am fully convinced that what we are seeing is a deliberate push to criminalize the NRA to the point where the five (soon to be six) million members that support the NRA can be prosecuted the same way as someone who supports ISIS or Al Qaeda.
You can call me a tinfoil hat wearing, paranoid, crazy person, but with the absolute level of hate we’ve seen directed at gun owners, I believe they do mean to do us real harm.
Right now, there is nothing they can do because NRA membership is protected by the First Amendment, the right to free association and the NRA is a registered lobbying group.
But if they can make the NRA legally tantamount to ISIS, all of its members are now criminals.
A year ago, maybe you’d be right to call me crazy. Not today.
I believe this is an act to destroy the Second Amendment by undermining the protections of the First Amendment.
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