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> Also EveryTown is already a very very large organization. Is it? I have never once met anyone involved in it. > The NRA is powerful not because of its dona
by jMyles 7y ago
> Also EveryTown is already a very very large organization.
Is it? I have never once met anyone involved in it.
> The NRA is powerful not because of its donations, it rarely ever does that...it's because a lot of people own and like guns.
I think it's fair to say that a lot of gun-owners despise the NRA. Selecting Olly North as a figurehead is not a way to please a libertarian-leaning constituency.
- flyingfences 7y ago> Is it? I have never once met anyone involved in it. "Large" in terms of astroturf funding, they mean.
- Rebelgecko 7y ago>Is it? I have never once met anyone involved in it. Their website claims they have more than 6 million supporters, although I suppose that could include things like Facebook likes and change.org petition signers. I'd suspect that their funding is a bit less grassroots than the NRA's (since so much comes from Bloomberg) but I haven't really looked into it. However Everytown is drastically outspending the NRA in terms of campaign contributions, and looks on track to outspend them overall in the next year or two.
- jMyles 7y agoI have met people involved in the NRA, GOA, and NAAGA just going about my routine - people at the grocery store, lyft drivers, sitting next to me on the plane, etc. If I see someone wearing a baseball cap or t-shirt of a political organization, I always ask about their involvement, and in several cases, people wearing a logo of these three organizations has turned out to be a fairly committed activist. But of the two people I have seen wearing Everytown apparel, neither were involved in any material way. I suspect that it is a tiny organization with a large budget.