Turning the Tables on the NRA
When an animal gets rabies you isolate the animal and if need be you put it down.
What I mean is the influence of the NRA needs to be minimized and if possible eliminated by replacing it with a more representative group by offering alternatives.
The activism of the NRA and its violent effects throughout our country make it clear that rational minds no longer prevail there.
When banning assault weapons, large capacity magazines and instituting universal background checks are considered “attacks on second amendment rights” while we watch children murdered in elementary schools and theaters in this country what else is there to say?
While a majority of NRA’s own members are in favor of addition measures, over 70% according to polling, their leadership continues to doubles down on its “guns for everyone” agenda.
It is clear now that sports men and women in America need an alternative to the NRA and its politically motivated agenda. There needs to be an organization like for example “American Sports Weapon Association” that represents the responsible possession and use of weapons for the public. Such an organization could promote safe gun use and possession through training and encourage laws that reinforce that right. Such an organization would not feel threatened by an assault weapons ban, elimination of large capacity magazines or even comprehensive background checks because this legislation preserves their legal right while also addressing a responsibility to the public for the greater good of society.
I remember the era of the “Brady Bill” during the time of the Clinton Administration. These laws were initiated under a prior Republican Administration and did not detract from the individual’s right to keep and bear arms. They did however, significantly reduce the use of assault weapons in homicides at the time.
It is time for someone out there reading this article to give sports weapon enthusiasts an alternative to the National Rifle Association and challenge them, the lobbyist Grover Norquist, and the weapons industry’s domination over American politics.
The following is a dramatization (clip) from “The Newsroom”, a HBO mini-series based on real events. Don’t let the Controlled Media in America silence the voice of all those who care.
Let’s remember to never forget those who stand with courage and fight for us all.
“It's a person. A doctor pronounces her dead not the news."
"She's alive"
quoted from The Newsroom (HBO)
The Newsroom EP4 – Giffords shooting
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America is now dominated by a few large Corporations controlling ALL MEDIA.
Fox News may be an extremely obvious source of propaganda but other major news networks participate as well but in a much more subtle form.
Remember the initial outrage over gun violence and the call for action? Have you watched as the media slowly controls this discussion by “softballing” interviews with representatives of the NRA and other Conservatives? Did you notice the media giving them the pulpit and offers no challenge to what they present?
And when there is a challenge, those who speak out are ostracized and threatened with things like impeachment..
Check out the following book by Dean Alger
Megamedia: How Giant Corporations Dominate Mass Media, Distort Competition, and Endanger Democracy
http://www.amazon.com/...
In the Bible the one time that Jesus expressed RIGHTEOUS ANGER was when the merchants defiled a sacred place. What did Jesus do in that situation? He overturned their tables and made them stop selling and leave. It is time that we start looking at our homes and other personal places as sacred places for us as well. We need to demand integrity and reject marketing and propaganda. We need to reject their control and “turn the tables” back on them.
A PROGRSSIVE MEDIA STRATEGY
NOTE: I DON'T AGREE WITH THE TOTAL DEMONIZING OF MSNBC. MSNBC IS PART OF NBC AND THE GE/COMCAST EMPIRE BUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING PRESENTATIONS ON MSNBC ARE A SHNING LIGHT IN A VERY DIMLY LIGHT BULB.
(Please watch this entire video and then support a progressive change in media)
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