How much responsibility falls on the NRA?
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Re: How much responsibility falls on the NRA?
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I agree completely. The NRA actively promotes the sale of more guns "for protection" in the wake of such mass shooting atrocities as Parkland. Their advertising and offering a "discount" just makes it worse. Anyone with even an ounce of common sense will tell you that the answer to a gun violence problem isn't more guns. Yet that is exactly what the NRA promotes. They also actively lobby and instigate legal action against any proposed change to gun laws in any US state, no matter how small. I too have witnessed first-hand their harassment of student mass shooting survivors on Twitter. From what I've seen, the NRA has absolutely no moral or social conscience. They might pretend they do, but in reality all they care about is selling more guns. So yes, they are largely responsible for the gun violence problem in the US.khusnick wrote: ↑03 Mar 2018, 17:00The FDA doesn't try to push for the things they approve to be used or bought. The FDA doesn't lobby for political campaigns. The NRA has been harassing survivors of the Parkland shooting. Personally, I don't think anyone in the FDA would be doing that if someone survived after taking drugs that killed other people or to the people that were related to the deceased.kandscreeley wrote: ↑02 Mar 2018, 20:52 I'm not so sure. When a drug that the FDA has approved turns out to be deadly, people blame the drug manufacturer not the FDA. Isn't this similar?
The FDA looks into their mistakes. They're willing to change their approvals when things become deadly. The NRA pushes for more guns in response to a gun problem. It's not quite the same. They absolutely are responsible because pumping more guns into the hands of angry and clearly sensitive people is their only answer. They want more sales because they get their money from corporations that want more sales, and they use that money to convince politicians to be complicit in the deaths of innocent people in huge numbers.
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