NYT: "The American gun lobby's refusal to accept even mild controls has made the US a favorite of terrorists who want to use guns." AYFKM 1/
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Did stricter controls stop the Paris attacks? 137 dead there. 3/
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Could go on for several hundred tweets about different cases. Nidal Hasan was actually in the army--going to disarm the military? o.O 4/
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But actually I'd rather point at the weird framing NYT (and the general agitprop push today) is using: The "gun lobby" isn't aliens. 5/
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NRA is as democratically legitimate as ACLU, Planned Parenthood, or any other lobbying group that's mostly funded by citizens. More so. 6/
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Furthermore, they neither pass laws nor sit on judge's benches. If you think a $5k donation is some kind of sinister mind control... 7/
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These agitprop pushes are planned out years in advance and bolted onto whatever atrocity happens to spike in the news. That's normal. 8/
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But they're getting sloppier about fitting the campaign to the facts. This horrible crime has zero to with NRA, zero to do with AR-15s. 9/
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In conclusion:
#BTFSTTG and happy fucking Thursday. 10/10 - 2 more replies
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Cons need to call this a dog-whistle campaign to keep Muslims from buying guns, since they likely dominate the watch-list.
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