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Monday, April 13th, 2015

‘You have to be ready to eliminate the threat’: Fearmongering and GOP groveling at NRA convention

Author:     Tana Ganeva
Source:     The Raw Story/Alternet
Publication Date:     12 Apr 2015 at 11:01 ET
Link: ‘You have to be ready to eliminate the threat’: Fearmongering and GOP groveling at NRA convention
Stephan:   If you are not in the gun culture, by which I mean guns are one of the ways you define your world, it is hard to comprehend how truly weird, fearful, and aggressive that world is. These are people who think Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker, Sam Brownback, and Rick Scott are worthy of being national leaders. That what these politicians say represents what they think. Here is a good article that pulls back the curtain a bit. None of this would matter, it would just be a group of crazies... but they have guns. This is another America.
Convention goers check out handguns equipped with Crimson Trace laser sights at the 143rd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 25, 2014 Credit: Agence France-Presse

Convention goers check out handguns equipped with Crimson Trace laser sights at the 143rd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 25, 2014
Credit: Agence France-Presse

It’s the afternoon before the first day of the NRA’s annual conference at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Handguns, rifles and semi-autos are unpacked and hung in booths; scaffolding and stages are raised; one vendor grapples with a tragic routing mistake—his wares have somehow ended up somewhere in Florida instead of Tennessee (‘How can they confuse Florida with Tennessee?!”)

Gruff avatars of American manhood scowl from posters hanging on the walls in the main showcase. Cowboys riding away in sunsets, soldiers, policemen, snipers and hunters. Charlton Heston posthumously clutches his gun, as promised. A sweaty, disturbingly ripped Founding Father poses against the American flag with a black semi-automatic rifle strapped to his […]

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