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tazzygirl -> RE: Is the NRA a Hate Group? (2/7/2013 9:55:02 PM)
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So is this list a guideline for NRA members to boycott the people and the products of companies on it?
If that’s the case, NRA loyalists can’t buy Levi's, because Levi Strauss is on the list. They shouldn’t cheer for the Kansas City Royals or the St. Louis Rams -- as Yahoo Sports points out, the teams didn’t like the idea of a Missouri state law letting people “pack heat at ballgames.” No vacations for them at Silver Dollar City attractions in Branson, Mo., either; the company has posted “no firearms” signs for visitors.
In fact, there are an awful lot of Missouri businesses on the NRA’s list, such as Hallmark cards. The state that was the fulcrum of pre-Civil War slavery disputes now seems to be a battleground again, over gun safety laws. Some Missouri sheriffs are endorsing the sentiments in a letter sent to the White House by one of their number who told President Obama that he would “most certainly urge my fellow sheriffs in the state of Missouri and across this great nation to rise to the defense and aid of all Americans should the federal government attempt to enact any legislation or executive order that impedes, erodes or otherwise diminishes their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” In other words, “make me.”
(Why, I wonder, is every other amendment to the Constitution subject to constitutionally sound limits and qualifications, when the one amendment that expressly contains its own limits and qualifications -- the part about the well-ordered militia -- is considered by its more hysterical adherents to be beyond any legal or judicial review or revision?)
NRA members might have to drop their Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage because it is on the list too.
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So many of these names are just head-scratchers. C. Everett Koop, the pediatric surgeon and Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general. The AARP. The YWCA. The National Assn. of Chain Drug Stores. (What is that beef? Did they decide against selling banana clips in the dental-floss aisle?)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-nra-enemies-list-britney-hallmark-and-the-ywca-20130205,0,3908128.story
The NRA keeps so many scores of groups in its sights as anti-gun-control that it beggars belief. Among them are the American Academy of Pediatrics, the United Methodist Church, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Congress, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the YWCA, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Those from the creative arts named include Bruce Springsteen, Alec Baldwin, Jerry Seinfeld, Matt Damon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Maya Angelou, to name but a few.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Jamie-Stiehm/2013/02/05/put-me-on-the-nras-enemies-list
• AARP;
• AFL-CIO;
• American Medical Association;
• American Bar Association;
• American Jewish Committee;
• Anti-Defamation League;
• B`nai B`rith;
• Children`s Defense Fund;
• Environmental Action Foundation;
• Episcopal Church;
• Lauder Foundation;
• League of Women Voters of the United States;
• National Association of Police Organizations;
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence;
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;
• National Council of La Raza;
• National Urban League;
• National Spinal Cord Injury Association;
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference;
• U.S. Catholic Conference;
• United Methodist Church;
• United Church of Christ;
• U.S. Conference of Mayors;
• and the YWCA of the USA.
I ask this in all seriousness: Who's left?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/06/opinion/avlon-nra-enemy-list/index.html
A possible reason for the YWCA... back from the 1970's.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19730720&id=c_JGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nvMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1027,2504143
The YWCA USA is an organizational member of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which advocates gun control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_YWCA
So, the AMA and the Bar Association. Does that mean they cant see doctors or hire lawyers?
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