[fixermark]

Were I in charge of NRA advertising, I would consider my ad running along a gun-violence-awareness campaign to be a misfire, akin to running a smoking ad alongside a story about smoking-induced lung cancer or a Coke ad alongside a story about Crystal Pepsi coming back.

[krapp]

Gun violence is the best recruitment tool the NRA has. When someone shoots up a school in the US, NRA membership goes up (as do gun sales.)

[jonnycoder]

No, democrats using a shooting event to blame guns and call for bans and stricter gun control causes gun sales and membership to go up. Obama has been the best gun salesman for the United States ever.

[krapp]

You're just repeating my point, but applying a predictable anti-liberal bias.

>Obama has been the best gun salesman for the United States ever.

Because of all the extremist gun control legislation he passed?

No, wait.. people just believed Obama was coming for their guns but he never actually did that.

It's almost as if people have been trained to respond to gun violence by supporting the NRA and buying guns ... in some sort of Pavlovian response.

But I can't imagine what organization or industry could possibly have spent decades and millions of dollars in political capital engineering such a virtuous cycle for themselves.

[madengr]

If Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and other ilk had their way, there would be guns bans and confiscation. Intent is 9/10 of the law.

[krapp]

The weird thing though, is they did have their way, and that didn't happen.

[madengr]

No they didn't have their way. several draconian bills never made it out of comitee.