Hayes Brown: Oh, if only there were some way the NRA, with its millions of dollars in membership donations and ties to a majority of congressional Republicans, could influence America’s gun debate.
. What matters to the NRA is that donations keep flowing into its coffers. What matters to the NRA is that the average member continues to see any attempt to ban the weapons of war that the Uvalde shooter was able to legally purchase as an attack on his own hunting rifle. What matters to the NRA is that guns keep getting into the hands of shooters.
The NRA and groups like it have spent their time and money advocating policies that allow such tragedies to continue, in our schools, in our churches and synagogues, in our grocery stores.should compel the sort of fealty from Republicans will be displaying this weekend. And yet, there will likely be no “Nixon goes to China” moment where a member of the faithful speaks out against the horrors that have been committed daily, nothing that will drown out hosannas for the Second Amendment.
and being named as a defendant in a lawsuit that threatens to dissolve the organization altogether, the NRA’s endorsement still matters to the Republican base. Thus, that endorsement matters to the craven politicians who beg for the NRA’s imprimatur every election cycle. And in their supplication, they offer up the lives of other people’s children, mothers, grandparents as offerings, a token of their commitment to the “freedom” that gives license to kill.
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