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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTakes not even one day, and the NRA is literally cashing in on the Texas shooting.
NRATV correspondent uses Texas church massacre to advertise for security firm where he works
Just hours after news broke of a mass shooting in a Sutherland Springs, TX, church that left 26 people dead and at least 20 more wounded, Chuck Holton, a correspondent for NRATV -- the National Rifle Associations media arm -- tweeted that If your church doesnt have a security team, get one with a link to LionHeart International Services Group:
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/11/06/nratv-correspondent-uses-texas-church-massacre-advertise-security-firm-where-he-works/218461
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Takes not even one day, and the NRA is literally cashing in on the Texas shooting. (Original Post)
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randr
(12,408 posts)1. Is it too early to profit from another mass murder?
unblock
(51,974 posts)2. it's too soon to politicize it! wait at least until we're done commercializing it!
Grammy23
(5,808 posts)3. That has to be one of the most crass and tasteless money grabs Ive ever seen.
So things have now deteriorated to the point where there is no place safe without armed guards, eh? Not even a house of worship. It sickens me to think how willing people are to make that the new normal.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)4. It's a genuine Protection Racket.
Sell the weapons and the protection.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)5. I'd wish that these guys wanting to go out in a blaze of glory....
at least take some useless shit with them. I heard there is a building full of them in Fairfax va.