Happy Birthday NRA??

The NRA wants us to mark its birthday; it turned 148 this week.

OK, let’s do so.

No – our Action Alert will not change the NRA leadership’s mind.

YES – people will see your post and it will make your voice heard.

Maybe, just maybe, someone else will share it, someone will think about the issues, see a statistic or point they hadn’t thought of before.

ACTION:

Please contact the NRA through one of the channels below and give them the following message, personalized to your liking; please share it on your own page too.


Please share this action too – and feel free to share one or both of the images below, just click on one to get the link:

 

 

“Happy Birthday NRA?

Maybe you’ve bought into outdated NRA arguments.  This dispels them:

“The NRA’s American!” – Senate subcommittee reveals the NRA a Russian Asset for all its anti-American activities and taking Russian money from Putin’s agent

“Right to self-defense!” – 2018: only 1,478 shootings (3.1%) were defensive 

“2nd Amendment!” – It’s not 1776 now:  individuals with semi-automatic weapons are NOT in a well-regulated militia

“Owning a gun’s my right!” – 2018: 47,220 Americans shot: accidents, unlawful police shootings, children finding guns, children in schools, and people in places of worship.  Their health and lives are worth more than the NRA’s interpretation of the 2nd A.  There’s nothing American about this.

NRA =  Not Really American

Stats – https://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-have-been-47220-gun-incidents-in-the-us-in-2018-and-here-they-all-are-on-one-map-2018-10-27

Join One Pulse for America – we’re taking actions to fight these tragic shootings and NRA propaganda

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1779750855570640/

 

Contact the NRA:

Phone:  800 672 3888
Email: 
https://contact.nra.org
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NRA/ (NB they block posts, may block comments too)
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/NRA and their tweet bragging about their birthday is here:  https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1196042086107271168

 

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

 

Time’s Up for the NRA: Mitch McConnell must stand aside

Introduction
In March 2018 the NRA issued a threatening video called ‘Time’s Up’, mocking the Time’s Up movement.  In the video they threatened anyone who stood against their aims, calling them ‘unpatriotic’ and ‘unAmerican’.  But the shocking truth is now out:  when the NRA made that video, they had already been a Russian asset for years. 

It’s hard to summarize all the recent bad news the NRA has happily experienced lately.  There is infighting, resignations at top level, lawsuits, the end of NRA-TV.  But a game-changing newly-released Senate Finance committee minority report concludes the NRA enabled Russian agents in undermining our democracy.  The report also said NRA members tried to enrich their private interests contrary to its tax-exempt status.  It is time to pull out all the stops and do everything we can to bring it down while it is in a very weakened condition.

We will take several actions in the next week against the NRA.  This is Action 3 – we will tell Mitch McConnell he is compromised and must stand down.

 

Action 3: Demand Mitch McConnell stands down

Mitch McConnell stands between the wish of most Americans to reform gun laws and his paymasters and endorsers, the NRA.

NBC News image of Mitch McConnell

With the NRA now established firmly as being a traitorous Russian Asset, any elected official who has taken their money and endorsement is also tainted by association.

Few in Congress are more tainted than McConnell.

He has an A+ rating from the NRA, and is nicknamed ‘The Grim Reaper’ by his supporters because he kills bills supported by the Democrats including two bills that would make background checks mandatory.

A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal found nearly 90% of Americans want to have background checks of the kind McConnell is blocking.

There have been major gun massacres in the months he sat on those bills:  could those deaths have been avoided?

The NRA was financed by, infiltrated by, and influenced by Russia.  The same is true of Mitch McConnell by extension.

ACTION:

Please contact Mitch McConnell through one of the channels below and give them the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

With the NRA now officially outed as being Russian  Assets, I am amazed you have the gall to remain in office.  Resign immediately.

The NRA took Russian money, worked with Russia, and its members even took trips to Russia on which they furthered their own personal interests, against the laws that allow the NRA to be tax-exempt.  They interfered with the working of our democracy.

And then there’s you.  The NRA apparently threw $1.6 million at the Senate, and there you are, blocking bipartisan bills which could be saving American lives.  Why wouldn’t you want background check bills to be democratically voted on?  Which country are you actually serving?  How many people have died who might have been saved if there had been a bill passed to tighten up background checks?

You have an A+ rating from a Russian-serving group of lobbyists, the NRA.  You’ve not addressed the matter, and you certainly haven’t apologized to the American public for your role supporting this hopelessly-compromised group’s aims.  And it’s cost lives.

I call on you to do the decent thing and resign immediately.  I don’t really expect you to do the right thing and leave office, but I want my friends and my elected officials to know how I feel about you – to me you are a traitor who has cost American lives.

Mitch McConnell
Phone:  (270) 781-1673
Email:  (form) https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactform
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mitchmcconnell/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/McConnellPress

Suggested Twitter message:

@senatemajldr With the NRA now officially outed as being a Russian Asset, I am amazed you have the gall to remain in office – people are dying while you sit on bipartisan background check bills.  Resign immediately. #RussianAsset

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

Time’s Up for the NRA: Tell congresspeople you won’t vote for NRA candidates

Introduction
In March 2018 the NRA issued a threatening video called ‘Time’s Up’, mocking the Time’s Up movement.  In the video they threatened anyone who stood against their aims, calling them ‘unpatriotic’ and ‘unAmerican’.  But the shocking truth is now out:  when the NRA made that video, they had already been a Russian asset for years. 

It’s hard to summarize all the recent bad news the NRA has happily experienced lately.  There is infighting, resignations at top level, lawsuits, the end of NRA-TV.  But a game-changing newly-released Senate Finance committee minority report concludes the NRA enabled Russian agents in undermining our democracy.  The report also said NRA members tried to enrich their private interests contrary to its tax-exempt status.  It is time to pull out all the stops and do everything we can to bring it down while it is in a very weakened condition.

Maybe you think your congresspeople already know how you feel about the NRA.  If you take this action on social media, thousands will see you take a stand and see what is at stake.  If you do it by phone call or email, then it will be on record.  It is about making our opposition visible right now while the NRA is on the ropes.

We will take several actions in the next week against the NRA.  This is Action 2 – we will tell our elected Congress representatives that if they are getting money from the NRA, they will not be getting a vote from us.  (Tomorrow we will focus on Mitch McConnell).

Action 2:  No NRA candidate gets our votes
The NRA spends tens of millions on politicians every year.

The amount of donations shown in this and other tables may look small, but the NRA spends on lobbying and ‘outside spending’ activities that together amount to millions.

In the 2016 election cycle, the NRA spent a massive £50 million according to The Trace.  While their spend has fallen, their influence remains huge.  One Pulse for America is not a partisan group, but it must be said that in 2018 5 Democrats were given NRA donations as compared to 195 Republicans.

It’s time to make it absolutely clear to your congresspeople and those running for congress in 2020 that you will never vote for a pro-NRA candidate.

To repeat, this is only one of a number of anti-NRA actions we will take this week; the more who take these actions and share them on social media, the more effective they will be.  This could definitely be the end for the NRA – if everyone keeps the pressure on.  All the actions may be taken more than once.

ACTION:

Please contact your elected representative – find them and their contact details using the link below, and give them the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

I hold the NRA responsible for the country’s gun death epidemic; they are now also proven to be a Russian asset.  To align with the NRA is to be a traitor as far as I am concerned.   Their interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is costing lives.  If you are for the NRA, I am against you.  Time’s Up for the NRA, and I promise I will never vote for a pro-NRA candidate.

I will fully support candidates in future elections who are anti-NRA, and I expect you to write back to me spelling out where you stand on the NRA and gun law reform.  So we are clear, I am definitely voting in all future elections.

No other country in peacetime has a death toll from gun violence like America, and if you are not working to solve it, I will do my best to see you never hold office again.  I will be waiting for your reply and watching what you do.  I expect to see pressure put on Mitch McConnell who is sitting on bills which could help end senseless loss of lives.  

Suggested Tweet:   Proven beyond a doubt: the @NRA is a Russian Asset.  I will never vote for a NRA-funded candidate.  I want to hear back from you on what you’re doing to stop the US gun violence epidemic. Time’s Up for the NRA’s treason https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6432520-The-NRA-Russia-How-a-Tax-Exempt-Organization

Find your congressperson here:  https://www.conginst.org/contact-congress/

If you copy the GOP, even better – it’s their party taking NRA money and blocking gun law reform legislation:

Phone:  202-863-8500

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GOP/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/GOP

 

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!