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(January 3, 2024 at 11:16 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: New York State Trial Could Mean The End Of The NRA

Wayne LaPierre’s more than three-decade reign as the CEO of the National Rifle Association has been marred by controversy. Besides a number of corruption scandals with LaPierre at the helm, today’s NRA faces issues like declining membership and revenue.

But it’s a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James that could prove to be the gravest threat to LaPierre’s legacy. James sued LaPierre and three other NRA executives in 2020, accusing them of misappropriating the gun rights nonprofit’s funds to finance gaudy luxuries for LaPierre and other higher-ups.

James claims LaPierre for years used the NRA as his “personal piggy bank,” using donor money to fund African safaris and trips to the Bahamas — often by private jet.

https://www.courthousenews.com/nra-faces...ts-future/

I don’t think the end of the NRA is that likely, but I would be happy if it were to end. I never liked that association and the people in it for a number of reasons.
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(January 3, 2024 at 11:58 am)Fireball Wrote: I remember when the NRA was about firearms safety and marksmanship training. Or was I just young and naive? I'm talking about 50 years ago, now.

Certainly much less of a political entity back then.
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(January 3, 2024 at 1:47 pm)brewer Wrote:
(January 3, 2024 at 11:58 am)Fireball Wrote: I remember when the NRA was about firearms safety and marksmanship training. Or was I just young and naive? I'm talking about 50 years ago, now.

Certainly much less of a political entity back then.

There's a PBS Frontline on this subject. The "no compromise" strategy began in the 80's (recall Heston's "cold, dead, hands" comment). Lapierre shifted that into a money making machine.
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(January 3, 2024 at 2:41 pm)Nanny Wrote:
(January 3, 2024 at 1:47 pm)brewer Wrote: Certainly much less of a political entity back then.

There's a PBS Frontline on this subject. The "no compromise" strategy began in the 80's (recall Heston's "cold, dead, hands" comment). Lapierre shifted that into a money making machine.

And we all know money = political power = corruption.
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Ready the thoughts and prayers: School shooting in Iowa.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-repor...d=10609981
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I am not particularly clear on the story involving Harvard and its recently resigned president. Anyone care to dumb it down for me?
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Quote:A central Florida venue has canceled an event that was to have featured Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., after it learned the event was intended to commemorate the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Wayne ‘Bang-Bang’ LaPierre has announced his resignation from the NRA, effective at the end of this month.

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The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots (msn.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.

The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump's appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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