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July 4th, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
Some of the most vocal gun owning Americans who subscribe to the National Rifle Association (NRA) individual-rights theory (IRT) “have a peculiar kind of illiteracy”, according to the editors of the Register Mail.
In an op-ed piece, they wrote that the “view of the Amendment generally prevailed until the [NRA] became an arm of the gun manufacturing industry. Then that organization, purporting to speak on behalf of gun owners, set about to pervert the meaning of the Amendment. The dependence of the NRA on the merchants of death is apparent if one leafs through any issue of The American Rifleman, one of the propaganda tools of the NRA. Page after page contains advertisements of instruments of enormous firepower available for purchase. The remaining few pages are given over to nonsensical prose about ‘precious Second Amendment rights’.”
Beyond the decades of perversion of the second amendment at the hands of the NRA, gun owners in America know that those NRA followers lie in order to keep their guns.
Journalist and gun owner David Smalley described in an op-ed piece how “at this nation’s beginning, it made sense for the citizens to be armed similarly to the government to prevent tyranny. Today, that’s ridiculous. The very concept is outdated.”
Smalley explains how ridiculous it is to think that an AR-15 or AK-47 could protect anyone from a governmental military who has “fully automatic M-16s… flame throwers, bombs, bazookas, Z10 attack helicopters, bradleys, tanks, fighter jets, nuclear reactors, [and] a plethora of other secret military weapons you don’t even know exist.”
Essentially, “if the government wants your shit, they’re going to take it. You still wouldn’t be a match for even a single battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Not to mention the Air Force, Army, Navy, National Guard, Secret Service, FBI, CIA, and Seals. So stop acting like your little AR-15 is going to stop tyranny.”
Under Wayne LaPierre, and thanks to the Revolt at Cincinnati , the NRA has become a “ferocious” organization with a plethora of “ruthless tactics” that has resulted in a “halt or roll back [of] gun regulation in America” for the benefit of weapons manufacturers.
For their fans, the NRA puts on an air of being “continually under assault, and the only force that can keep its members from losing their guns”; however it is the core of the group that appeals to extremists which is their biggest problem.
Another issue is the defense of any gun to be sold on the open market and in retail regardless of safety concerns. After the shooting in Orlando, the NRA expounded on the virtues of the AR-15. Dom Raso, commentator for the organization told a crowd at an NRA News event: “For the vast majority of people I work with there is no better firearm to defend their homes against realistic threats than an AR-15 semi-automatic. It’s easy to learn, and easy to use. It’s accurate, it’s reliable.”
Raso was speaking at a SIG Sauer sponsored event because guns are big business and the NRA couldn’t survive without the earnings from gun makers. On the average, the NRA helps their industry sugar-daddies earn an estimated $13.5 billion annually.
Their marketing strategy is almost predictable at this point; and it goes like this: First there is a mass shooting, then the NRA and rightwing media get their viewers in an uproar about the individual-rights theory of the second amendment, and finally gun sales soar.
The benefactor in all of this are the gun makers who saw their quarterly earnings climb by 61.5% just after the Orlando shooting.
After the flurry of cash is made for the gun industry, the NRA goes on a donation drive to boost their members and in-coming dues because the politicians they will buy-off later on expect to be paid.
And on the other hand, the NRA invests in running their operation like a mafia, threatening congressmen and senators if they try to pass any sort of gun regulation.
Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the NRA, appeared on ABC News just after the Orlando shooting and said that any elected official that tried to pass any form of gun control would have to leave in fear.
Cox used the old tried and true defense that Americans “have a god-given right to defend” themselves and guns “are an effective means of doing that”.
And so Cox made the threat that “politicians who want to divert attention away from the underlying problems that suggest that we’re somehow to blame will pay a price for it.”
In this context, Cox was referring to “an electoral price”; meaning that the NRA would unleash a smear campaign to get that politician out of office, ruin their career, and replace them with a more agreeable gun rights lawmaker.
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