The NRA and Russia: Best Friends Forever

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Finally the truth about the NRA is coming out: They are funded by Putin's government in Russia.


Does this really surprise anybody? It's pretty obvious that Russia has a huge interest in angry american yokels being armed to the teeth - it presents a huge problem for the US government and it makes the US as a whole look like backwards retards clinging to their guns and religion. Russia loves that shit!

The school shootings are probably hilarious to Putin. Rich American suburbanites can't even keep their children safe from armed yokels and their insane children, so Putin can tell Russians: "Yes, you are poor and don't have iPhones, but at least your children can go to school safe, unlike Americans! " And he has a point!

The NRA are traitors, aiding and abetting an enemy of the US in order to gain money and expand its political influence over US politics. American members of the NRA are unknowing agents of a foreign power. They are also brainwashed threats to the US government. Personally, I suggest the next president (which will obviously be a democrat) work towards collectively charging every member of the NRA with RICO statutes and disenfranchising them by having them all convicted of felonious acts. We can also remove their right to own firearms. NRA members are a huge threat to America.


https://www.npr.org/2018/03/01/5900...-politicians-cultivation-of-nra-ties-revealed

A prominent Kremlin-linked Russian politician has methodically cultivated ties with leaders of the National Rifle Association and documented efforts in real time over six years to leverage those connections and gain deeper access into American politics, NPR has learned.

Russian politician Alexander Torshin said his ties to the NRA provided him access to Donald Trump — and the opportunity to serve as a foreign election observer in the United States during the 2012 election.

Torshin is a prolific Twitter user, logging nearly 150,000 tweets, mostly in Russian, since his account was created in 2011. Previously obscured by language and sheer volume of tweets, Torshin has written numerous times about his connections with the NRA, of which he is a known paid lifetime member. NPR has translated a selection of those posts that document Torshin's relationship to the group.

 

[Thebobo]

Yea I heard about this, yesterday and it's just a another amazing Trump catastrophe. Just to much batshit crazy to track.

 

[Indus]

 

[alien42]

just proves that Russia is indeed our friend.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

The Russians would love nothing more than fully armed Americans to start, err ah, keep shooting each other.

 

[Gryz]

You guys are just fucking nuts.
Sure, some Russian guy tried to get influence in the NRA, in hopes of getting some political influence, or some economical benefit.

But the facts are:
THE NRA WAS FOUNDED BY AMERICANS
THE NRA IS FULL WITH AMERICANS
HALF YOUR FRIGGING COUNTRY SUPPORTS THE NRA
HALF YOUR FRIGGING COUNTRY CHOOSES THEIR GUN OVER DEAD CHILDREN

The problem is with Americans. Your fellow Americans. Or maybe with your yourselves.
The NRA promotes guns so that American companies can sell more guns to Americans. And make more profits. No matter the consequences.
It was Americans that elected an idiot into the White House.
Accept that. Deal with that.

Bunch of pussies.
Always blaming someone else.

 

[Brainonska511]

If only there was a thread on this article