Membership is declining at the gun right's group as it also faces financial difficulties. Critics say the future looks bleak.

Membership is declining at the gun right’s group as it also faces financial difficulties. Critics say the future looks bleak.

  • Amends1782
    711·
    10 months ago

    I feel like one of the 7 pro gun people on all of Lemmy, I’d like to share some perspective about the NRA being a boogieman. They absolutely are not the boogiman that leftists and anti gunners think they are. They are a ridiculously bloated, corrupt, beuracracy, no different than our federal government. They are all optics. In fact I’d say their only job is to be the boogieman and absorb negative attention, to allow the real gun rights groups to get some work done.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      61·
      10 months ago

      They keep a public list of approved politicians and downgrade anyone who even mentions gun reform. That feels like more than just a bureaucracy; since they’re largely funded by weapons manufacturers, it seems more like an extremely influential lobby. And since what they’re lobbying for is “keep pretending that there’s no way to solve the deadly problem that kills more humans than any other thing you don’t do to yourself and literally every other developed nation has solved,” it seems like their job is to enforce the prioritization of gun manufacturers’ profits over lives.