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I don’t think it IS a coincidence anymore. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/06/02/democrat-congressman-vows-to-get-rid-of-norms-to-pass-gun-control-bills-n2608139

Go for the easy target first. "No one needs 'assault rifles!'" "No one really needs handguns! They serve no purpose." ( <- Canada is here) "There is no valid reason for anyone to have a semi-automatic gun. You suck at hunting if you need 10 rounds to kill a deer." "No one wants to see sniper (hunting) rifles in the hands of civilians. In fact, lets just call it all rifles except .22 rimfires." "We promise we'll let you keep your single shot .22. ...Wait, we will? What do you mean I skipped a line and read the wrong....oh. Oh! Sorry! Ahem. Shotguns are only useful for killing multiple people with one pull of the trigger and will be banned." "We promise we'll let you keep your single shot .22, unless something bad happens with a .22." "So, it turns out someone did something bad with a .22 guys, so, yeah, turn those in. You can totally keep your muzzleloaders though!" "Yeah, fuckit, what are you gonna do, we want your muzzleloaders too. Give us your BB guns and airsoft and paintball, too. And we will arrest your kids for holding gun shaped sticks or poptarts, too."

A soldier ran up to a nun. A soldier ran up to a nun. Out of breath he asked, "Please, may I hide under your skirt. I'll explain later." The nun agreed... A moment later two Military Police ran up and asked, "Sister, have you seen a soldier?" The nun replied, "He went that way." After the MPs ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her skirt and said, "I can't thank you enough, sister. You see, I don't want to go to Syria." The nun said, "I understand completely." The soldier added, "I hope I'm not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!" The nun replied, "If you had looked a little higher, you would have seen a great pair of balls…. I don't want to go to Syria either."

Brandon going to be addressing the nation tonight. And the Topic is GUNS I just can't believe how coincidental these random shootings are. Just as the Supreme court is about to rule on the 2nd Amendment

After reading that article, handgun hunters in bordering U.S. states would disagree with the statement that handguns are useless for hunting.

You rang, sir? LOL... Interesting podcast. Here's the main takeaways: Despite rumors of corruption for years, LaPierre's still standing - after almost 30 years in the role. The NRA has spent $100M fighting lawsuits (money that didn't go, of course, to help the 2020 election or other worth causes). The podcast interviewed Desiree Paine (sp?) (now separated wife of Paul Paine) - both belonged to the Members' Council of California (a grassroots state-level 2A org which recruits members for NRA). According to her: her husband, Paul Paine, has been paid off (80K cash annually, retirements, a personal assistant + other benefits) for his loyalty to LaPierre - essentially for helping to "fix" internal NRA elections to ensure LaPierre loyalists get on the board & protect his role there. Because so few NRA members vote by mail, it only takes a couple thousand votes to "sway the results" - so by influencing the 100,000+ members of the California organization (instructing them who to vote for) - they can stack the board with the right people. Sometimes though, those efforts still fail - and the "wrong" person (someone not loyal to LaPierre) gets on the board. In those cases, then Paul Paine travels with a dozen or so volunteers on an all-expenses-paid trip to the annual NRA convention - for "electioneering" purposes - to hand out flyers, hitting as many of the participants as possible - all to ensure they vote for LaPierre loyalists. The volunteers are sworn to secrecy about how it's all funded, etc. They don't reveal to anyone that it's all been comped by NRA funds (which of course translates to member dues). Next, they interviewed Michael Schwartz - relatively new to 2A activism, who joined the Members Council and was soon elected President of the San Diego branch. According to him: He was soon frustrated that Paul Paine seemed thoroughly resistant to all of his ideas to build grassroots support. Paul Paine than invited him to attend/volunteer at the upcoming convention - sort of as a reward for his hard work (or so he thought). He found out his job was actually to get Joel Friedman (a LaPierre loyalist) elected to the board that particular year. Though he enjoyed the event, he started to wonder "who's paying for this...?" and "is this ethical?" - as it turns out, Friedman was elected. Basically, Schwartz says Paul Paine is paid - out of NRA dues - specifically to protect Wayne's role as President - to ensure that people loyal to him are voted onto the board. Of course, the hotels, the concert tickets, the expensive dinners, etc. - are also being paid by NRA funds. So, both of these folks are basically saying that members dues are being harness for the wrong reasons. The dues are being used to keep people like LaPierre in power... rather than to promote/protect the 2A.

I think it’s a bad thing in many ways, but a lot of this has been brought on by the NRA themselves

There's No Bipartisan Gun 'Deal' In The Works, Just GOP Capitulation (thefederalist.com)

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