NRA Gains 500,000 New Members in 19 Days

The National Rifle Association (NRA) became the most vilified organization in the U.S. after the tragic Parkland shooting. Democrats and liberals pinned the blame on them for the massacre. The mainstream media had a field day demonizing them. And some business giants were quick to join the bandwagon and severed ties with NRA including Hertz, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and Simply Safe. But guess what? NRA has gained nearly 500,000 new members since the Parkland tragedy. 

Such is the single biggest increase since the shooting in Newtown Connecticut where NRA gained a smashing 100,000 within a couple of weeks only. With membership pegged at $30a year for the lowest tier, that’s certainly a huge amount for the gun lobby group now. 

Maybe some bought new guns out of exasperation with the biased coverage of such mainstream media as CNN like Robert Norman who recently wrote an article entitled “I bought my first gun because of the CNN Townhall” that quickly went viral and also triggered spirited discussions across the country and became the topic of many TV interviews. 

Or maybe it is due to Democrats’ motive to exploit the tragic shooting to their advantage anew when they introduced a bill last week that would ban over 150 different guns if passed. 

Then it could be partly due to the selective oppression of Twitter which chose to only verify and promote the survivors of the shooting that were strongly opposed to the gun lobby group but banned one who happened to be a proponent.

It could also be the constant fear tactics being fed by the mainstream media about the AR-15, a gun that has been sold to the public for 60 years, although it was only involved in 6 of the previous 96 mass shootings.

Maybe it was a combination of all the above factors. One thing that can’t be ignored, though, is that there’s no stopping Americans from upholding and practicing their right to bear arms. After all, it is the Constitution that protects and says such right should not be infringed. 

Historically, NRA’s membership revenue always registers a remarkable spike after mass shootings and passionate national discussions pitting gun control versus gun rights. In 2007, there was a spike in the year that a gunman murdered 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech using several handguns. In 2013, membership revenue increased by 63 percent over the previous year, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in late 2012.

This time is unique in the sense that the media zeroed in on NRA so much harder than any other time in history and squarely blamed them for the deaths that could be attributed to so many factors, including in regulatory weaknesses in the issuance of permits to buy guns, or law enforcement shortcomings to stop the gunman in spite of previous strong red flags. 

 Can they blame the Americans then who opted to respond by securing even lifetime memberships to the most vilified organization in the U.S. today? 

https://thegoldwater.com/news/19792-NRA-Gains-500-000-Members-in-a-Month 

   
(Newton’s Third Law: for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. )

( NRA Recruiter of the year: David Hogg. ) 

(The two posters under the 3/1 Assault Ban post proved to be correct)

http://gadfly01.blogspot.com/2018/03/hr-5807-assault-weapons-ban.html