Wakeforest22890
Snowpom
The NRA used to be in favor of universal background checks back in the 90s but now isn't. Why is that?
My guess is because they put profit (can sell guns to good guys and bad guys under the "gotta have a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guywith a gun) above all us. Related, I suspect political polarization and the 24/7 news cycle plays a large role as the NRA has largely been co-opted by far right and rural individuals. If Obummer is preaching against guns it's because he wants to steal them all and oppress me just like Fox News and Breitbart says.
There is enough complicity and culpability to go around but it falls disproportionately on the number of Americans who believe (and have been brainwashed into believing) that owning guns is an absolutely untouchable right that is a part of what makes America great. Further it falls on people who continue to vote for candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against any gun regulations that come up under the "well I liked their conservative economic policies." That's fine but you're complicit.
My guess is because they put profit (can sell guns to good guys and bad guys under the "gotta have a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guywith a gun) above all us. Related, I suspect political polarization and the 24/7 news cycle plays a large role as the NRA has largely been co-opted by far right and rural individuals. If Obummer is preaching against guns it's because he wants to steal them all and oppress me just like Fox News and Breitbart says.
There is enough complicity and culpability to go around but it falls disproportionately on the number of Americans who believe (and have been brainwashed into believing) that owning guns is an absolutely untouchable right that is a part of what makes America great. Further it falls on people who continue to vote for candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against any gun regulations that come up under the "well I liked their conservative economic policies." That's fine but you're complicit.