NRA tweets image with bullets next to pictures of Brooklyn lawmakers who announced state ammo limit

[dixiegrrrrl]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nra-tweets-image-bullets-pictures-lawmakers-article-1.2484861

[randys1]

1. NRA is a terrorist organization, plain and simple

This is the definitive proof

[etherealtruth]

2. A right wing terroristic hate group

[world wide wally]

3. Make an arrest already.. This is a blatant threat

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. It's disgustsing

but not a threat.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Very LOUD dog whistle, is what it is. n/t

[Jim Beard]

9. Its an implied threat!

[GGJohn]

12. So would you agree that this ad is an implied threat also?

[Humanist_Activist]

13. Uhm, no, the pictures and message are really different, obviously so...

the ad you posted is sending a message that Rep. Cole, in voting no on HB 758 is making children a target. Over the top, yes, a threat, implied or not, against Rep. Cole, no.

[GGJohn]

14. Wow, the hypocrisy,

it reeks, but then, I really expected nothing less.

[Humanist_Activist]

15. What hypocrisy? You seem to not understand what that word means.

Where is the threat in the ad you posted?

[GGJohn]

16. Let's see, gun controllers went nuts over Sarah Palin's ad with a target over the states

repukes wanted to win, yet, when there's a target on children, an ad put out by the gun control group Brady org, controllers are ok with it.
Yeah, that's rank hypocrisy.

And tell us where is the threat in the NRA ad?
The ad is mocking the 2 NY legislator's bill to limit ammo purchases, it's not threatening them.

[Humanist_Activist]

17. Actually, the NRA ad looks like the opening scene of a bad mob movie...

with the people in the Polaroids being targets of someone nefarious, so sure, I can see the implied threat there. The Brady ad is over the top with its message, sure, but it certainly isn't a threat.

Also, it wasn't gun controllers that "went nuts" with Palin's ad, its Democrats you are talking about, are you sure you are on the right website?

[GGJohn]

19. Ooooh, now the questioning of my creds?

So why would our party go nuts over that ad, yet, for the most part, are ok with the Brady ad?
You don't call that hypocrisy?

How about this Democratic Party ad with bulls eyes on these states? Are they ok?



My point is that both sides do stupid ads.

[Humanist_Activist]

20. Actually, both Palin's and that one is fine, the issue I have with the NRA ad is the context of...

the pictures. It looks the like the tabletop of a hitman, and there are quite a few movies and video games that have used that trope before.

It would be like the difference between Palin's ads targeting states and districts and instead putting a person's picture in gun sights, which would be way over the top and an implied if not overt threat.

[GGJohn]

21. Fair enough, I disagree on the NRA ad, but that's just an opinion,

and your's is just as valid as mine.

[vkkv]

4. The NRA = Terrorist group by definition

To further a political agenda through fear and intimidation is what terrorism is.

That's pretty much ALL they NRA does!

[Skittles]

7. paranoid cowards

[LonePirate]

8. The name of that tweeter speaks volumes about their ignorance and priorities.

[CharlotteVale]

10. Some things just make me literally gasp in horror.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Love your name........

[CharlotteVale]

18. Thank you!