Protesters outside the NRA’s meeting on Friday had assumed that the timing of a school shooting three days earlier might somehow be problematic for the NRA.
— POLITICO (@politico) May 28, 2022
For gun enthusiasts and the Republican politicians courting them, it was only more reason to come. https://t.co/Tm8IlQBalF
Former firearms executive @ryandbusse: "When you have that sort of deep visceral connection to something, a nefarious force like the NRA can figure out how to tap into that. Insert fear and conspiracy, and then make people do irrational things about it." pic.twitter.com/fAGGyaVVsM
— 11th Hour (@11thHour) May 28, 2022
“We all know they want total gun confiscation,” raved President-reject Trump at the NRA Gunfest. It was the Amber Führer at his demagogic best — the paranoid conspiracy theory, the ominous pronoun “they” and the insistence that “we all know” what in fact no one knows but him.
— Victor Laszlo (@Impolitics) May 28, 2022
They're putting ballistic plates in their kids backpacks, teaching them how to stop blood loss from gunshot wounds and floating BS conspiracy theories that "gun control advocates planned the Uvalde attack."https://t.co/x5FUg5qMjb
— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) May 28, 2022
Sad! 