NRA releases video message targeting ‘elite liberal forces’ who threaten its existence: ‘We’re coming for you’
The National Rifle Association released videos directed towards ‘elites’ they say are committed to ‘undoing’ the pro-gun group’s progress
The NRA used combative language in the clips saying things like ‘a shot across the bow’ and ‘we’re coming for you’ alongside violent hashtags
The group’s spokeswoman Dana Loesch called out liberals in one video, saying ‘the times are burning and media elites have been caught holding the match’
Loesch specifically called out The New York Times as a target for their ‘narratives, propaganda and fake news’ in the video message
If legislation passes, the use of Silencers would be made more readily available to consumers. Buyers would still be required to pass a background check
NRA declined to comment on the videos to The Associated Press, but the organization has produced videos saying the left and media are out of control
By JESSA SCHROEDER
DAILYMAIL.COM
26 August 2017
The National Rifle Association ignited a fiery campaign directed towards ‘elites’ they say are committed to undoing the pro-gun group’s progress amidst pending legislation.
The political powerhouse put out a series of videos using a variety of combative language warnings such as ‘a shot across the bow’ and ‘we’re coming for you’ alongside the hashtags #counterresistance and #clenchedfistoftruth.
If the Hearing Protection Act is approved, the use of Silencers — a device that reduces noise emitted by internal combustion engine exhaust in guns — would be made more readily available to consumers.
Under the law, buyers would no longer be permitted to pay a ‘$200 tax, submit fingerprints and a photograph, notify law enforcement officers and wait about 10 months while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wades through a backlog to process the application and register the weapon,’ according to a USA Today report.
Buyers would still be required to pass an instant background check as a standard prerequisite for purchasing any firearm.
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch didn’t bother censoring the furious memo when speaking on the matter in one NRA-TV video, which bashed Hollywood liberals.
‘The times are burning and media elites have been caught holding the match,’ she said in the footage, which shows folks in the back breaking into gun stores, fighting police and even burning the American flag.
Loesch specifically called out The New York Times as one of their targets, blaming ‘narratives, propaganda and fake news’ for continuous setbacks the NRA has faced.
‘We’ve had it with your constant protection of your Democrat overlords, your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life. And we’ve had it with your tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth or fact-based journalism … Consider this the shot across your proverbial bow.’
Public Policy Director at the University of Pennsylvania, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, said the tone and language depicted in the messages ‘overwrought rhetoric’ and will likely be viewed as a threat initiated physical harm among some viewers.
Gun lobbying groups have longtime been media critics, while anti-gun groups say the NRA uses the Trump-initiated ‘fake news’ mantra to attract supporters after gun sales took a downfall.
‘They’re not inventing this hyperangry, nasty partisan tone but piggybacking on Trump’s approach. Of course, NRA voters by and large are Trump voters, so they would be sympathetic to that kind of message,’ said Robert Spitzer, chairman of the political science department at State University of New York at Cortland.
Spitzer, a member of the NRA who studies the firearms industry and Second Amendment, said it’s a pattern the group has exhibited as they evolved from an almost exclusive focus on gun safety into a political beacon for conservatives who fear changes to the Second Amendment and the gun industry.
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