How the NRA prepared members for the November elections.
I think I have already made my case that if the apocalypse comes, it will have been foretold by Nikki Haley, Louie Gohmert, and the entire staff of
Fox & Friends. Unfortunately for me there are still two needed signs to go, one each for November and December.
The mere existence of November should probably count as a sign of the apocalypse by itself. We are used in this nation to electing both potential crooks and bumbling morons, but the quality of morons this time around is truly something to behold. Special end-of-the-world props go to winners Glenn Grothman and Jody Hice in particular, whose elections probably hastened the end times by at least two days apiece. Oh, and the fellow who won a Colorado House seat based on his previous fame as guy who is convinced Obama is possessed by demons should get a mention as well.
I would call ye olden Breitbart news site a sign of the end times as well, given their continued masterful ability to get the news wrong, repeatedly, but I don't really think the fates give much more of a damn about Brietbartisms than the rest of us do. November was the month outgoing Congressman Steve Stockman invented science, but he's going away and so, likewise, nobody has to care anymore.
I think the NRA has to take this one. You may or may not have noticed the decay of the organization into crackpot conspiracy peddlers indistinguishable from the silliest depths of paranoid email lists, but somewhere behind Wayne LaPierre's anti-government froth and spittle there's a decent case to be made that they have devolved into the nation's most well-financed militia group.
The surest November sign of the end times: The NRA's pre-election "Vote Your Guns" issue, a publication intended to stoke every far-right paranoia you might name.
A paranoid column from National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre appearing in the gun group's magazine fearmongered about terrorist attacks and "angry mobs" rioting "just for the sheer hell of it" in the United States before calling on supporters to "vote our guns" on Election Day.
As part of a "special two-cover election issue," the NRA's magazine, America's 1st Freedom, depicted a flag and gun-toting ISIS fighter along with the headline, "Chaos At Our Door?"
There was once a time when the NRA was about guns because they liked guns. Now they're about guns because they're looking for people that deserve shooting, and are "preparing" their members for a day when they will be allowed to do just that. If LaPierre's editorial screeds in the
Vote Your Guns issue are any indication, that day might be a year from now, or a month from now, or tomorrow.