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Its such delicious satire too. It has forced a lobby group that has an unyielding view point on the 2nd amendment to clash directly with the 1st amendment. Whic
by splawn 10y ago
Its such delicious satire too. It has forced a lobby group that has an unyielding view point on the 2nd amendment to clash directly with the 1st amendment. Which in turn causes me to question my own unyielding view on the 1st amendment... Hilarious and brilliant stuff IMO, assuming this was all in the design of the satire.
- hga 10y agoIt has forced a lobby group that is perceived to have an unyielding view point on the 2nd amendment The NRA's stance is very much exaggerated, e.g. every piece of Federal anti-gun legislation passed with their approval until the 1994 AW ban, and since the passage of the Brady Bill the year before, which eventually set up the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), their baby, you might say, they've supported and are right now supporting legislation that uses the NICS to prevent people from buying guns from FFLs (gun stores). To cover a bit more of their relationship with the 1st Amendment (which after looking at the Wayback Machine copies of the website, I'm not so sure is implicated, e.g. it does not come off as satire unless you know enough about the NRA's stolid style), they fiercely opposed McCain-Feingold, since it banned a lot of their political speech before elections (this was resolved in their favor in the Citizens United case).
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- Kephael 10y agoThis doesn't look like satire, they've even gone and created nrapress.org which mimics the actual NRA-ILA site. It is not obvious satire and the press release page looks absolutely authentic because they've ripped the NRA-ILA site design and are redirecting to the NRA-ILA site.
- splawn 10y agoI suggest you watch their movie. This is what they do. Imo, its satire at its best and purest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3s_pJw7OAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3s_pJw7OAU