Gunned Down "The Power of the NRA"

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There is a show on channel 13 right now about the NRA.

[Damjan 73]

Usual Liberal Stalinist Cheap Propaganda

[millsan1 3]

Painful how completely biased and baseless this is.

[Newtonian 453]

Next time someone tells you how evil the NRA is, ask them if they believe that NRA members commit gun crimes in greater numbers than, say, certain minority groups. Ask them how many murderers in their state have belonged to shooting ranges, take firearms training, and donate to 2nd Amendment groups. 

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This Frontline will be repeated Thursday at 3:00 AM.

[tony357 386]

If they are doing this then the NRA is doing their job so to speak.. they are trying to take down the bull..

[DirtyDigz 1,812]

This Frontline will be repeated Thursday at 3:00 AM.

 

Or watch it online:

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gunned-down/

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i seem to recall reading somewhere that the nra actually helped great britain during ww2, as since they didn't have many civilian owned firearms, they'd taken a collection, and sent somehwhere in the ballpark of 7k guns to them for civilians to use in defense should hitler have crossed the channel?

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World War II

 

After the fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, Britain found itself short of arms for island defense. The Home Guard was forced to drill with canes, umbrellas, spears, pikes, and clubs. When citizens could find a gun, it was generally a sporting shotgun ill suited for military use because of its short range and bulky ammunition.

 

British government advertisements in American newspapers and in magazines such as The American Rifleman begged Americans to "Send A Gun to Defend a British Home - British civilians, faced with threat of invasion. desperately need arms for the defense of their homes." The ads pleaded for "Pistols, Rifles, Revolvers, Shotguns and Binoculars from American civilians who wish to answer the call and aid in defense of British homes."

 

Pro-Allied organizations in the United States collected weapons; the National Rifle Association shipped 7,000 guns to Britain. Britain also purchased surplus World War I Enfield rifles from America's Department of War.

 

Prime Minister Winston Churchill's book Their Finest Hour details the arrival of shipments of .300 caliber rifles and .75 caliber artillery pieces from the U.S. government in July 1940. Churchill personally supervised the deliveries to ensure that they were sent on fast ships and distributed first to Home Guard members in coastal zones. Churchill thought that the American donations were "entirely on a different level from anything we have transported across the Atlantic except for the Canadian division itself." Churchill warned his First Lord that "the loss of these rifles and field-guns would be a disaster of the first order."

 

"When the ships from America approached our shores with their priceless arms special trains were waiting in all the ports to receive their cargoes," Churchill recalled. "The Home Guard in every county, in every town, in every village, sat up all through the night to receive them.... By the end of July we were an armed nation.... a lot of our men and some women had weapons in their hands."

 

My emphasis added.

[1LtCAP 4,264]

that's the one. those evil nra'ers helped a country stand against pretty heavy odds.