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San Fran government declares NRA (and its members) terrorists

They’re coming for you next: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, all Democrats, yesterday voted unanimously to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization.

[The resolution blames the] NRA … for causing gun violence. “The National Rifle Association musters its considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence,” the resolution reads. The resolution also claims that the NRA “spreads propaganda,” “promotes extremist positions,” and has “through its advocacy has armed those individuals who would and have committed acts of terrorism.”

In addition to calling the NRA a domestic terrorist organization, the Board of Supervisors called on the city and county of San Francisco to “take every reasonable step to limit … entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business” with the NRA.

You can read the resolution here [pdf]. Its aim is to blacklist this legal organization made of about five million Americans. It also aims to forbid any legal agreements between any businesses in San Francisco and the NRA, as well as encourage all other city, state, and federal governments to do the same.

Ah, blacklists! I remember them well. There was once a time that Democrats considered blacklists to be the font of all evil, and proof that anyone who suggested them was a fascist. Now that the left proposes such things they stand for justice and righteousness.

Nor is this the only example. Recently several Hollywood television actors called for the publication of all attendees to a Trump fundraiser in Beverly Hills, so that they could make a list of people to blacklist. Fortunately, a lot of other Hollywood stars balked, criticizing the idea.

Nonetheless, this is where the leftist Democratic Party is headed. Either you agree with them, or you must be squelched, in every way possible.

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8 comments

  • Cotour

    Is this libel or slander?

    This is such a fraudlent and really stupid argument, but it sounds good to the dopey and dumb among us. Its the Constitution, written by those White, Christian slave owners, these people have a problem with not the NRA. These are the people, like all Democrats and “Progressives” today, who argue the exact opposite in how you deal with the crazy and thug / murderer problem. They see taking away guns from the people as the correct thing to do so its only the crazy and the thug / murders among us that have those weapons. Not to mention making the people impotent aganist the government.

    Manipulation and symbolism of the first order, and it is the NRA that these radicals will attempt to symbolically sacrifice on their un and anti American alter. And it will be an effective shining beacon for some.

    (I took my pocket knife out today, its razor sharp. I opened it and placed it on the table as a salesman told me something similar as the San Francisco declaring the NRA a terrorist group. It did not kill him. I suppose it liked him? Maybe next time it will kill him?)

    So stupid.

  • Cotour

    I think what every reasonable American needs to do is.

    1. Join the NRA (I am a life time member, I mean domestic terrorist, I.E. Deplorable)

    and

    2. Buy this tee shirt https://www.libertariancountry.com/products/you-need-a-gun-t-shirt?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI27msxpm45AIVk0I3Ch0FQA9kEAEYASAAEgK05fD_BwE&variant=7384734138391

  • wayne

    William Mandel testifies before HUAC
    May 1960
    https://youtu.be/UM8uP565hzI
    1:23

  • Max

    1984 has come true. “Thought” crimes is no longer laughed at. McCarthyism was a darkness in our past, but now is the shining means to a ends by the mentally ill people who believe them selves touched by God to rule over men. How quickly they forget, history repeats itself.
    Red flag laws will automatically generate list for NRA members Gun confiscation from being wrongly labeled “terrorist”, most likely in the middle of the night of homes of people that committed no crime’s.
    Taking their guns is not enough, I’m sure they’re preparing the cattle cars and the trains to take them to their final destination.

    Wrong think cannot be tolerated.

  • Chris

    “Take every reasonable step to limit…entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business” with the NRA.

    I remember in the mid -90’s that our company had to add several rules to our HR manual related to homosexual rights. This was mandated by the City of San Francisco who we were selling equipment to.
    This is how, in part, the change in national opinion was pushed across the US and in what seemed to be a very short transition. This was not the only way but it was one way – one way in a seemingly coordinated set of methods.

    NRA Life Member too.

  • wayne

    Pink Floyd –
    “Your Possible Pasts” 1983
    [animation from Waltz With Bashir]
    https://youtu.be/v32h8aXVSic
    4:20

    “They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
    Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
    A warning to anyone still in command….
    [“Ranks! Fire!”]
    Of their possible future, to take care.
    In derelict sidings the poppies entwine, with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time….”

  • wayne

    “Blow You Away”
    Robert Earl Keen
    2004
    https://youtu.be/X5c5TtQ2Mb8
    3:35

  • Edward

    But it was OK and acceptable for an illegal alien to shoot to death young miss Kate Steinle, and for San Francisco’s part in this murder.
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Kate-Steinle-case-Appeals-court-overturns-gun-14403382.php?psid=lr8Er

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/26/us/kate-steinle-family-cannot-sue-city/index.html

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