re: Yeti is getting roasted on FB comments for cutting ties with the NRA

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Okay, I am guilty for making a short story long.. I could have made my point in less words, but here is my point.

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>>Proceeds to write another wall of text<<

They already made a fortune ripping off rednecks with their overpriced coolers. I think they'll be ok.

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You so poorly educated on this topic it's laughable but also typical of you and those that share your opinions here.

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What do you mean by "you and those that (should be who) share your opinion here"?

Let me guess, you are some ultra-conservative WHO thinks that your views matter and that everyone else is stupid if they have a different view of things. What's funny is, you don't even realize you have the same mindset as the ultra-liberals WHO you likely hate so much.

This is my opinion..

I don't think lobbyist groups should be part of our government because their job is to influence lawmakers to pass laws that favor them. Our government is "of the people" not "of a bunch of special interest groups".

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It's a non-profit in which a few people make a lot of money off of and they are able to influence lawmakers on laws that are really not in your best interest, but in the profit interest of several companies.


What laws are you talking about? I don't think you have the IQ to substantiate this claim but do try.

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First, I would be more than happy to compare my IQ with yours. With that said, I was saying it is a typical non-profit/lobbyist group.

The CEO of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre.. His salary average $1M a year and has received as high as $5M in the past.

In 2016 the NRA spent $54M in campaign donations. They spend around $250M a year, which is much more than any gun control advocacy groups combined.

As for as what laws, I don't know all the specific laws, but I was able to learn, by googling, that in 1975, they registered as a PAC and since then has lobbied for and against legislation.

Having as much money as they do, they are able to influence lawmakers, but if one of those anti-NRA groups ever start pulling in as much or more money as the NRA does, they will be able to have influence on laws that you will be against. The NRA isn't anything like what it started out as, but hey, they are able to convince people like you that you need them because if you didn't think that, then you wouldn't pay fees and so on.. Yet you are the one questioning my IQ. After you finish jerking off Ted Nugent, learn how the government really works.

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Do they not know who their customer base is?

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Now it'll be a totally different base.

Might be a great marketing move in the long run.

Or it might not.

Time will tell.

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Let me guess, you are some ultra-conservative WHO

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Well, you're wrong (I'm very much a moderate) but that is par for the course with you...

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I don't think lobbyist groups should be part of our government because their job is to influence lawmakers to pass laws that favor them. Our government is "of the people" not "of a bunch of special interest groups".

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Tribalism is a fact in any society. Rainbows and unicorn farts aren't going to change that so what you think isn't terribly realistic.

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First, I would be more than happy to compare my IQ with yours.

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I don't think that happiness would last very long kid.

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The CEO of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre.. His salary average $1M a year and has received as high as $5M in the past.

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Mike Bloomberg is an anti-gun billionaire that funnels tens of millions into Everytown. I'm sure you thought you were making a point with Wayne's compensation but it seems you didn't think it through.

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In 2016 the NRA spent $54M in campaign donations. They spend around $250M a year, which is much more than any gun control advocacy groups combined.

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Given the fact you know next to nothing about any of these groups, it's safe to say this is just another of your wishful factoids that you pulled from your nether region. While in direct lobbying spending the NRA is far ahead (and should be given it actually has millions of paying members that gun-control advocacy groups do not) in terms of total political spending it is not and if you actually totaled up their political spending in the last 20 years, you'd get a little over $200 Million. $250 Million per year you say? No, you obviously need to put down your little LWNJ crack pipe.

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As for as what laws, I don't know all the specific laws, but I was able to learn, by googling, that in 1975, they registered as a PAC and since then has lobbied for and against legislation.

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You absolutely asserted that the NRA lobbied for laws:

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...that are really not in your best interest, but in the profit interest of several companies.

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That's pretty damned specific for you to now claim you didn't have specifics in mind. Or can we just assume, like with most of your posts in this topic, you really don't have a clue what you are talking about?

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Having as much money as they do, they are able to influence lawmakers, but if one of those anti-NRA groups ever start pulling in as much or more money as the NRA does, they will be able to have influence on laws that you will be against.

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And again, you seem to not understand that the anti-gun lobby is extremely influential even without spending as much as the NRA simply because they have the ears of so many poorly educated simpletons that agree with them on so-called "common sense" gun laws. They had the CDC and DoJ doing a lot of their heavy lifting in the 1990's without spending a dime.

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The NRA isn't anything like what it started out as, but hey, they are able to convince people like you that you need them because if you didn't think that, then you wouldn't pay fees and so on.

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Like you know anything about the NRA or why it shifted to be more political. I'm sure you, like most poorly educated rubes that parrot that talking point, labor under the delusion that the NRA changed in a vacuum and it had absolutely nothing to do with groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns that formed in 1974 or the growing pressure by influential religious groups in the late 1960's.

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Yet you are the one questioning my IQ. After you finish jerking off Ted Nugent, learn how the government really works.

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Well it's incredibly easy when dealing with a low-grade moron that mouth hugs Bernie Sanders talking points. You are a complete moron on this topic and you'd do well to save yourself the embarrassment and run along to pollute another thread...

Oh noez! the fn FB comment sections! thats 2nd only to youtube comments!

Holy rebuttal, man.

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You absolutely asserted that the NRA lobbied for laws:

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Because that's what lobbyist do you retard. You are completely missing the point.

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like most poorly educated rubes that parrot that talking point, labor under the delusion that the NRA changed in a vacuum and it had absolutely nothing to do with groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns that formed in 1974 or the growing pressure by influential religious groups in the late 1960's.

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You do mean poorly educated on the subject of the NRA right? If so, I must admit, I don't know the whole history of the organization. I never really took time to study it all. If you mean poorly educated in general.. Yeah, you not agreeing with me equals me being poorly educated.

Either way, I will be honest, I don't even know what we are arguing about because I have stated my opinion.

This thread is about yet another company cutting ties with the NRA. People are upset because they did so. I just question the NRA's purpose in the first place because someone can be pro-guns and not be a NRA member. And I question what does the NRA actually do for the average NRA member. What do you gain by being a member?

It is just another political entity who pays politicians to support their special interest. I realize we do not live in a perfect word, but living in an imperfect word doesn't mean I have to support the fact that lobbyist have corrupted our political system.

And for everyone who is pissed off at one company for cutting ties with the NRA, if you are going to protest against that company then you might as well cut times with every company that doesn't choose to support the NRA, because not having ties with them in the first place means they decided not to support them. How many people even knew they were an NRA supporter in the first place?

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Literally everything about your writing style is god awful.

If your writing style was my pet, i’d Throw it off a bridge.

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If I was writing something important, I would obviously do a much better job.

And if my writing style was your pet and you decided to throw it off the bridge, I would hope you would slip and join your pet right off the bridge.

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I don't think lobbyist groups should be part of our government because their job is to influence lawmakers to pass laws that favor them. Our government is "of the people" not "of a bunch of special interest groups".

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I wonder what you think abolitionists were, before the Civil War. Groups of people are still people, with the right to free speech, and to petition government for a redress of grievances. Now, I'm no happier than you that part of that game is plying lawmakers with money, but that is the sad state of the government we've given ourselves.

If it really bothers you, you should look into the hundreds of entities that give more money to lawmakers than the NRA. Much, much, more. Hundreds of millions more.