{"id":5793,"date":"2013-01-30T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2013-01-30T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:06:09","slug":"the-nra-doesnt-serve-its-members-it-uses-them-to-serve-the-gun-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/the-nra-doesnt-serve-its-members-it-uses-them-to-serve-the-gun-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The NRA doesn&rsquo;t serve its members, it uses them to serve the Gun Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA is a corporate shill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2013\/01\/30\/1515911\/senator-catches-nra-head-in-epic-flip-flop\/\">Senator Catches NRA Head In Epic Flip Flop | ThinkProgress<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While NRA leadership opposes universal background checks, its members back the change. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2013\/01\/28\/strong-majority-of-americans-nra-members-back-gun-control\">national survey<\/a> conducted by Johns Hopkins University found that<font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"> \u201c89 percent of all respondents, and 75 percent of those identified as NRA members, support universal background checks for gun sales.<\/font> Similar surveys by Pew Research Center and Gallup have also found background checks to be by far the most popular gun control proposal in the aftermath the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6>Update<\/h6>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/LaPierre.pdf\">a copy of the ad<\/a> the NRA took out in 1999 saying, \u201cWe think it\u2019s reasonable to provide for instant checks at gun shows just like at gun stores and pawn shops.\u201d <\/p>\n<h6>Update<\/h6>\n<p>The NRA broke its commitment to support background checks for \u201cevery sale\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/daily\/june99\/house18.htm\">lobbied for a watered down provision<\/a> in 1999. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2013\/01\/30\/1515911\/senator-catches-nra-head-in-epic-flip-flop\/\">Senator Catches NRA Head In Epic Flip Flop | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA is a corporate shill. Senator Catches NRA Head In Epic Flip Flop | ThinkProgress While NRA leadership opposes universal background checks, its members back the change. A national survey conducted by Johns Hopkins University found that \u201c89 percent of all respondents, and 75 percent of those identified as NRA members, support universal background &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/the-nra-doesnt-serve-its-members-it-uses-them-to-serve-the-gun-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The NRA doesn&rsquo;t serve its members, it uses them to serve the Gun Industry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}