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NRA's $15 million campaign to portray Obama as threat to second amendment

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/01/politics/politico/main4222168.shtml

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The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s presidential campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.

“Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, could be taken away from us in the future,” Chris Cox, head of the NRA’s political arm, said.

The politically powerful gun rights group will split its message efforts between communicating with its 4 million members and the tens of millions more firearms owners across the country.

This fall, NRA members will get automated phone calls, mail pieces and pre-election editions of the group’s three magazines making the case against Obama. More broadly, the group will use an independent expenditure effort to hammer the Democratic nominee via TV, radio and newspaper ads in some of about 15 battleground states in the Midwest and Mountain West.
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6 comments // NRA's $15 million campaign to portray Obama as threat to second amendment

  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • McCaine has an air about him that spells disaster for the USA...he is not real, like a programmed (sp)duppleganger of bush...there is something uncanny about him...

    • 3 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
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      Marilynn_Murray  

    • Another bull crap wedge issue. Why do we allow them to do this every election? Their man is a senile old pie face but they drag this stuff out and people get wrapped up in it and look no further. Grab your hand gun for the hundred year war cowboys.

    • 3 years ago
  • uroborus8
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      uroborus8  

    • Following the recent Supreme Court decision criminalizing gun control laws, the NRA should feel good about the position for several decades.

    • 3 years ago
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • I don't think anti-handgun legislation will ever pass in this country.

      'Death Wish IV" plays on a an endless loop on SPIKE TV.

      What's depressing is that so many people go out, buy a bunch of handguns, get extensive training in safety and target shooting and then end up getting shot in the back of the head by a drug addict!

      Their last thoughts on this earth will be, "But that isn't how criminals do it in the movies! They didn't even give me a warning so that I could...."

      I think something more realistic (and much more effective) than trying to pass a handgun ban would be a PR campaign that give people a more realistic idea of how crimes occur and how effective being "strapped" really is in terms of self-defense. More often then not the dramatic quickdraw gun fight with a single lone criminal face-to-face so often depicted in the movies is just not the case.

      Once the allure and romance of handguns get a splash of coldwater I think sales will drop on their own.

    • 3 years ago
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