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Gun Control Reform Activism

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,221 posts)

7. That too!

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 30, 2016, 07:02 PM

Aug 2016

Let's not forget that the NRA used to be in favor of more gun control. That changed after a racist took over in the 70's and changed the narrative that white people needed more guns to protect themselves from the "scary" black men seen on the news carrying guns in public.