NRA sees a huge surge in membership after Parkland shooting

[2aguy]

Why do LWNJ's hate the Bill of Rights?

We like the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Why don`t the RWNJs? Because Body Counts Don`t Matter.

The only ones increasing the body counts are democrats who keep letting violent gun criminals out of jail....and who allow these mass shooters to get guns...obama and his policy of telling schools to not arrest dangerous and violent students is the direct cause of this nut job getting a gun...since he wasn't in the background check system since he wasn't arrested...because of obama's policies.....

Democrats refuse to stop gun killers....I wonder why?

The Democrats in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, etc. are letting people out of jail? You got the wrong party sonny. If you hadn`t provided the nuts with a gun in the first place chances are they wouldn`t have been in jail at all. The problem is YOU!

Moron.....the two biggest Cities in Louisiana are run by democrats.....democrat mayors have controlled Atlanta, Georgia, since 1879.....Democrats have been the majority control of Savannah, Georgia mayors......you have no idea what you are talking about....

Criminal control, not gun control.

Yep & Republicans run the fucking state. If NO would ban guns you fucking NRA assholes would be handing out guns at the city limits.

You people are dumber than shit.

Moron.....it doesn't matte who runs the state if the local prosecutors are letting violent gun criminals out of jail for violent gun crimes.....I just posted a thread about the criminal who murdered a local police officer here in Chicago....this is why we have gun crime.

We don't have gun crime because law abiding people own and carry guns....


Alleged killer of Chicago police commander was on the streets due to unusually light sentence for major parole violations

Chicago Police commander Paul Bauer was savagely executed, “shot six times in the head, neck, torso, back and wrist.” No fewer than “three civilian witnesses identified Shomari Legghette in a police lineup as the man who struggled with Bauer at the top of a stairwell outside the Thompson Center in the Loop moments before his death” less than a month ago.

Now it turns out that Legghette should have been in prison on any rational basis, but wasn’t because Chicago’s justice system is “a joke” in the eyes of criminals -- in the words of Chicago’s police superintendent.

Greg Re of the Chicago Sun-Times describes how it is that Legghette was free to do what he wished in the streets of Chicago:

The suspect who allegedly gunned down Chicago police Commander Paul Bauer near City Hall earlier this month received an unusually light sentence for major parole violations in 2007, court records show.
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The documents, reviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times, reveal that Bauer's accused killer, Shomari Legghette, dodged up to 30 years in prison when he was booked for the violations that year.

At the time of his 2007 sentencing, Legghette was on parole following an armed robbery conviction that landed him a 16-year sentence, and prison time from 1998 to 2005.

Records show that police found Legghette in the South Side in 2007 with $1,800 in cash, body armor, a chrome revolver, and a baggie of heroin, the Sun-Times reported.

Evidently, this was not regarded as THAT serious:

But instead of pursuing felony charges for those parole violations, records show, prosecutors opted to send Legghette to prison for only a few weeks after he pled guilty to a lesser charge of possessing a weapon with a defaced serial number.

 

[2aguy]

Why do LWNJ's hate the Bill of Rights?

We like the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Why don`t the RWNJs? Because Body Counts Don`t Matter.

The only ones increasing the body counts are democrats who keep letting violent gun criminals out of jail....and who allow these mass shooters to get guns...obama and his policy of telling schools to not arrest dangerous and violent students is the direct cause of this nut job getting a gun...since he wasn't in the background check system since he wasn't arrested...because of obama's policies.....

Democrats refuse to stop gun killers....I wonder why?

Democrats now are letting people out of jail. Good one.

Democrats allow these people to get guns? Really? I thought you claimed Democrats want to take away guns.

Jesus fuck Buddy. At least try not to lie every now & then.

Yes....democrats are letting gun criminals out of jail......

Dart warns of 'dramatic increase' in people charged with gun crimes released on electronic monitors

Judges have treated felony gun charges in a dramatically different way since the reforms were implemented, according to data from the sheriff's office.

Over a nearly four-month period in 2016, judges gave out cash-based bonds in nearly 96 percent of felony gun cases and released just 2 percent on electronic monitors. In the 10 weeks after the bond order took effect in September, though, the number of cash-based bonds for gun cases plummeted to about 40 percent, while those freed on the electronic bracelets jumped to 22 percent.

The amount set for bonds also sharply fell on average, from nearly $134,000 in 2016 to almost $22,000 in 2017, according to the analysis.

By contrast, judges also boosted how often they ordered no bond for those charged with felony gun offenses, to more than 9 percent in 2017, compared with no cases at all in 2016, the analysis showed.

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Dart, along with Preckwinkle and other elected county officials, has been a vocal opponent of the cash-bond system in which judges require defendants to put down money to secure their release from jail while awaiting trial.

Critics say the system unfairly punishes the poor and that defendants charged with violent offenses who sometimes have easy access to cash because of gang ties can be back out on the street within days.

In July, as part of the reform push, Chief Judge Timothy Evans announced that judges would be required to set bail only in amounts that defendants could afford to pay in an effort to ensure that people charged with nonviolent crimes weren’t languishing in jail simply because they didn’t have the cash, sometimes only a few hundred dollars, to post for bond.

firearmwhile committing a violent crime. A court struck down the law in 2016. Under the law, Florida’s firearmviolent crime rate plummeted to the lowest levels in the Sunshine State’s recorded history.


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John Boch: Lock Them Up! - The Truth About Guns

When you lock up violent criminals, you prevent them from victimizing other innocents. Crime in America dipped almost 50%after America abandoned “soft on crime” attitudes of the 1970s. Of course, many soft-on-crime politicians like Reitz have once more taken a love to “diversion” programs. And that’s how we get Robbie Patton (above), a local crime celebrity of sorts.

In 2015, he had an altercation at a Champaign Steak ‘n Shake restaurant commonly frequented by my friends and me. While none of us were enjoying a milkshake or steakburger at 5:30pm, Robbie was.

Robbie found himself in an altercation inside the restaurant. He felt one of his friends had been “disrespected”, so little Robbie went outside. He waited for the other group to emerge, pulled out of gun and tried to kill those other people.

He missed, and fled the scene with an Illinois State Trooper in hot pursuit. After a short, high-speed chase in a stolen car, Robbie crashed and escaped on foot.

Cops caught up with him. Local prosecutor Julia Reitz then went soft on little Robbie. She let him go to “boot camp”, even though that sentencing option is not supposed to be available for violent offenders. And squeezing off a bunch of shots at other people, trying to kill them, pretty much fits the bill as a violent crime.

After serving eight months on an eight-year sentence, Robbie returned to the streets of Champaign-Urbana. In less than two days, cops arrested him again for drugs and who knows what else. Not even three weeks after that, he’s illegally got agun. When someone “disrespects” another one of Robbie’s friends, guess what he does? He pulls out the gun and fires shots at those he believes responsible.




He misses his intended targets, but in the busy University of Illinois campustown district, his errant, not-so-late-night rounds found four innocent people within a block or two. George Korchev, the recent nursing school graduate due to start his career as a registered nurse at a hospital in Libertyville, IL, the following Monday morning, was struck and killed a blockaway from one of Robbie’s bullets.

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Democrats lower sentences in California...for gun criminals


California Democrats hate the gun, not the gunman – Orange County Register

Now that Democrats have supermajorities in the California state Legislature, they’ve rolled into Sacramento with a zest for lowering the state’s prison population and have interpreted St. Augustine’s words of wisdom to mean, “Hate the gun, not the gunman.”

I say this because, once they finally took a break from preaching about the benefits of stricter gun control, the state Senate voted to loosen sentencing guidelines for criminals convicted of gun crimes.

Currently, California law requires anyone who uses a gun while committing a felony to have their sentence increased by 10 years or more in prison — on top of the normal criminal penalty. If enacted, Senate Bill 620 would eliminate that mandate.

The bill, which passed on a 22-14 party-line vote, with support only from Democrats, now heads to the state Assembly for consideration.

Republicans and the National Rifle Association have vowed to campaign against it.

Why have Democrats suddenly developed a soft spot for criminals convicted of gun crimes? The bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, D-Gardena, says that he was motivated to write the bill after a 17-year-old riding in a car involved in a drive-by shooting was sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though he claims that he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger.

and for all those anti-gunners who want to know where criminals get guns....well...this law lowers the prison time for those who give guns to criminals.....

Why is that?

Prop. 57, for example, very deceptively and fundamentally changed the definition of what constitutes a “non-violent” offense.


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Chicago's grim murder trend blamed on light sentencing, misguided reforms

Lamar Harris had seven felony convictions and 43 arrests when he shot three Chicago police officers. The same week, Samuel Harviley, who had just been paroled after serving less than half of his sentence for armed carjacking, shot yet another of the Windy City’s finest.

Police officials, researchers and many elected leaders all agree that the pair were prime examples of the violent pool of criminals driving the city’s historically high crime rate. Ex-cons well-known to police and with a proven propensity for violence are being let out early from prison or let off lightly by judges, only to wreak havoc on the city, they say.



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“We have five districts that are driving the crime in the city,” Johnson said in a recent radio interview. “And within those districts, there is a small subset of individuals who are responsible for those crimes. They have multiple arrests for gun offenses and until we start holding these people accountable [the problem will persist].”


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Illinois is one of several states implementing recommendations from prison reform commissions to reduce or even eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Those groups seek to reduce prison populations by as much as 25 percent.

The movement to slash sentences and free inmates is given momentum by controversial, police-involved shootings that galvanize communities, as well as protests by Black Lives Matter and civil rights groups. But shortening sentences of violent offenders puts both police and law-abiding residents of the inner city at risk, say law enforcement officials.

 

[saveliberty]

Here is the NRA Modus Operandi in a nutshell:

1. School or other massacre.
2. Talk of reasonable gun control.
3. NRA gets hysterical.
4. Spreads fear that "they're" coming for our guns.
5. Neurotic and panic-stricken NRA members and other gun zealots go out to buy more guns.
6. NRA gets more members.
7.Gun Manufacturers profits sore.
8. NRA and gun companies laugh all the way to the bank.

Repeat at next tragedy.

NRA motto never make a good massacre get in the way of a good profit.

Seems like liberals should wise up then huh snowflake?

 

[JGalt]

why do rwnj always lie in their thread titles?

it's not like no one knows they're full of shit

Where's the falsehood? The OP stated: "Google searches for 'NRA membership' have risen roughly 4,900 per cent since the week before the February 14 shooting, with new members flocking to support the gun owners' rights group."

While the 4,900 percent increase in Google searches may not translate to millions of new users, there has been an increase in new memberships. But how many new memberships we don't know, because the NRA hasn't divulged that. Other sources have claimed that their membership went up by millions, but those sources are not the NRA, nor did I include them in the OP.

I know you little snowflakes would like to believe that NRA memberships have dropped since the shooting, because "muh feelz" and all that. But it's very doubtful that they actually have dropped.

 

[JGalt]

What color is the sky in your world?

Does one have to be a paranoid nutcase to be an NRA member, or is it just easier?

See? Yours is the typical Marxist response to someone with whom you disagree: "You're crazy".

Be assured of this: As long as Americans are free to own firearms, you people will never will never bring your little Marxist fantasies to fruition.

What Marxist fantasies?

See! This is what it's like to argue with a delusional, or a wall for that matter.

In other words, conservatives.

Facts. Conservatives live in the real world, while liberals live in a fantasy world. Conservatives base their actions on real facts and truths, while liberals base their reactions on emotions and feelings.

It's been said many times: "If you want to piss off a conservative, tell him a lie. If you want to piss of a liberal, tell him the truth."

You live in Trumpworld. Enough said.

And why not? President Trump is the adult in the room, while you liberals are like little kids.

We tried letting you little children run this country for 8 years and that was a disaster, so now the adults have taken control.

 

[JGalt]

Here is the NRA Modus Operandi in a nutshell:

1. School or other massacre.
2. Talk of reasonable gun control.
3. NRA gets hysterical.
4. Spreads fear that "they're" coming for our guns.
5. Neurotic and panic-stricken NRA members and other gun zealots go out to buy more guns.
6. NRA gets more members.
7.Gun Manufacturers profits sore.
8. NRA and gun companies laugh all the way to the bank.

Repeat at next tragedy.

NRA motto never make a good massacre get in the way of a good profit.

Seems like liberals should wise up then huh snowflake?

Think they ever will? We had more school shootings under Obama than ever before. And yet, did Obama pass one single piece of gun legislation, or an executive order, or even a memo? Even when the Democrats held the House and Senate?

Nope. Firearms and ammunition soared through the roof while he was in office. And Obama made it easier for school shootings to occur with his school and justice policies.

 

[Nosmo King]

Why do LWNJ's hate the Bill of Rights?

Because it's the only thing that keeps them from marching everyone that disagrees with them off to a gulag.

What color is the sky in your world?

Does one have to be a paranoid nutcase to be an NRA member, or is it just easier?

See? Yours is the typical Marxist response to someone with whom you disagree: "You're crazy".

Be assured of this: As long as Americans are free to own firearms, you people will never will never bring your little Marxist fantasies to fruition.

What Marxist fantasies?

See! This is what it's like to argue with a delusional, or a wall for that matter.

In other words, conservatives.

No. Delusional. To be fair Conservatives have something to say. They are committed, as we Liberals are, to this nation and its future. We must never dismiss Conservatives, true Conservatives as mindless, unimaginative paranoids with nothing but a dark, conspiratorial outlook.

We must respect Conservatives because one day the fever will break and we will get back to the job of leading this nation. When the delusional, the paranoid, the Trumpian fades out of fashion, it will be down to dedicated Americans both Cnservative and Liberal to carry on and repair the damage. Neither side can afford to alienate the other. Division, as proposed by the delusional can only serve to keep the wounds from healing.

 

[August West]

See? Yours is the typical Marxist response to someone with whom you disagree: "You're crazy".

Be assured of this: As long as Americans are free to own firearms, you people will never will never bring your little Marxist fantasies to fruition.

What Marxist fantasies?

See! This is what it's like to argue with a delusional, or a wall for that matter.

In other words, conservatives.

Facts. Conservatives live in the real world, while liberals live in a fantasy world. Conservatives base their actions on real facts and truths, while liberals base their reactions on emotions and feelings.

It's been said many times: "If you want to piss off a conservative, tell him a lie. If you want to piss of a liberal, tell him the truth."

You live in Trumpworld. Enough said.

And why not? President Trump is the adult in the room, while you liberals are like little kids.

We tried letting you little children run this country for 8 years and that was a disaster, so now the adults have taken control.

Disaster? When Obama took office the DOW was 7,000 and we were losing 745,000 jobs a month. The adults that have taken control are being indicted and/or arrested. WTF is wrong with you?

 

[centerleftFL]

Sorry folks. I don't think Americans are buying the left's anti-gun sentiment.

"The NRA has seen a huge surge in membership interest in recent weeks, after drawing noisy backlash over the shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Google searches for 'NRA membership' have risen roughly 4,900 per cent since the week before the February 14 shooting, with new members flocking to support the gun owners' rights group."

NRA sees a huge surge in membership interest after Parkland | Daily Mail Online

For some perspective. There are 300,000 NRA members in FLA. There are 21,000,000 people.

Just thought I'd mention it

 

[jillian]

Bloodlust

mental illness

 

[koshergrl]

I joined, I'm waiting for my NRA hat and car decals!

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Sorry folks. I don't think Americans are buying the left's anti-gun sentiment.

"The NRA has seen a huge surge in membership interest in recent weeks, after drawing noisy backlash over the shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Google searches for 'NRA membership' have risen roughly 4,900 per cent since the week before the February 14 shooting, with new members flocking to support the gun owners' rights group."

NRA sees a huge surge in membership interest after Parkland | Daily Mail Online

I am already a life member, but I did give them a donation.......

I also belong to the 2nd Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America...

You belong to a terrorist organization.

What an absurd comment, but par for the course from the left.

 

[JGalt]

Sorry folks. I don't think Americans are buying the left's anti-gun sentiment.

"The NRA has seen a huge surge in membership interest in recent weeks, after drawing noisy backlash over the shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Google searches for 'NRA membership' have risen roughly 4,900 per cent since the week before the February 14 shooting, with new members flocking to support the gun owners' rights group."

NRA sees a huge surge in membership interest after Parkland | Daily Mail Online

I am already a life member, but I did give them a donation.......

I also belong to the 2nd Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America...

You belong to a terrorist organization.

What an absurd comment, but par for the course from the left.

Especially since the Democrats know all about terrorist organizations. They're closely associated or sympathize with known terrorist organizations like CAIR, La Raza, the Freedom From Religion Organization, the SPLC, Planned Parenthood, the Communist and Socialist Parties USA, ANTIFA, radical eco-terrorist and animal-rights organizations, the PLO, the Muslim Brotherhood, the list could go on and on and on...

Hell, Barack Obama even befriended several domestic terrorists and allowed them to visit the White House on multiple occasions. Bill Ayers, for example.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Why do LWNJs hate the Bill of Rights?

Because it's the only thing that keeps them from marching everyone that disagrees with them off to a gulag.

The Yellow Yell, and Hollow Fools Follow

What sissies would let them have the power to do that?

 

[JGalt]

Why do LWNJs hate the Bill of Rights?

Because it's the only thing that keeps them from marching everyone that disagrees with them off to a gulag.

The Yellow Yell, and Hollow Fools Follow

What sissies would let them have the power to do that?

RINO Republicans, deep-state bureaucrats, and Trump-haters among the GOP ranks.

 

[badger2]

#53 contradicts #53: Freedom from Religion Foundation is a defense against the violence terror of religion.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Notice the words here used by the left regarding the NRA and or its members:

"Bloodlust" , "mental illness", "terrorist organization".

Why do we bother to discuss this with extremists ?

 

[aaronleland]

When I was a kid I worked for this telemarketing company that made calls for the NRA to ask for donations. We had this list on our cubicles called "zingers". They were just talking points used to get idiots to donate. Fleecing retards out of their money for my own benefit was easy.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Notice the words here used by the left regarding the NRA and or its members:

"Bloodlust" , "mental illness", "terrorist organization".

Why do we bother to discuss this with extremists ?

Most of you don't bother to discuss why we find the NRA to enable terrorists, because you and others lack the ability to provide a credible defense to the fact that the NRA - at best - enables terrorists to kill masses of innocent people.

 

[RealDave]

Sorry folks. I don't think Americans are buying the left's anti-gun sentiment.

"The NRA has seen a huge surge in membership interest in recent weeks, after drawing noisy backlash over the shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Google searches for 'NRA membership' have risen roughly 4,900 per cent since the week before the February 14 shooting, with new members flocking to support the gun owners' rights group."

NRA sees a huge surge in membership interest after Parkland | Daily Mail Online

I am already a life member, but I did give them a donation.......

I also belong to the 2nd Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America...

You belong to a terrorist organization.

What an absurd comment, but par for the course from the left.

Especially since the Democrats know all about terrorist organizations. They're closely associated or sympathize with known terrorist organizations like CAIR, La Raza, the Freedom From Religion Organization, the SPLC, Planned Parenthood, the Communist and Socialist Parties USA, ANTIFA, radical eco-terrorist and animal-rights organizations, the PLO, the Muslim Brotherhood, the list could go on and on and on...

Hell, Barack Obama even befriended several domestic terrorists and allowed them to visit the White House on multiple occasions. Bill Ayers, for example.

I get it. Any minority group trying to get equal rights is a terrorist group - maybe to you white supremacists.

I can show lots of pics with your Republican pals hanging out with the PLO.

About Trump & Putin? Or Trump & Flynn? Or Trump & Manafort?

Bill Ayers & Obama were not friends. I see you dickfucks are still pushing that lie.

Meanwhile the NRA keeps fighting for access to terrorists to obtain assault type weapons here in the US. They openly raise money by trashing our intel & law enforcement people.