1/ With so many bringing new activism to oppose the NRA, I thought I'd hit a few of the highlights on @MotherJones last six years of reporting on them. First up, their membership numbers are nowhere what they claim: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
2/ In 2012 @AdamWeinstein wrote about how NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer pushed the fist Stand-Your-Ground law through the Florida legislature. That law allowed George Zimmerman to walk free: motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
3/ The NRA's top lawyer for decades once was arrested for murder, set free due to shoddy police work. An NRA president was also charged with murder, btw. motherjones.com/politics/2014/…
4/ Here's how the NRA pushed Congress to effectively cripple the ATF, ensuring, among other things that no modern database helps them track gun crimes: motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
5/ A few names may have since changed, but here's the NRA's board of directors: motherjones.com/politics/2015/…
6/ Here we fact-checked 10 of the biggest gun myths pushed by the NRA: motherjones.com/politics/2013/…
7/ A closer look at the myth of a "good guy with a good gun" stopping a shooting: motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
10/ The NRA likes to claim its acting on behalf of its members. But really it acts on behalf of gun makers. Here is everything you need to know about the leading ones: motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
11/ People are considering boycotting companies that do business with/give discounts to the NRA might also want to check their own 401Ks: motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
12/ Gun violence costs Americans more than $229 billion a year: motherjones.com/politics/2015/…
13/ When we started intensively reporting on gun violence in 2012, following the Aurora massacre, we began with a question, were mass shooting really intensifying, or did it just seem that way: motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
14/ Sadly there's no doubt now. But the database we built is still used by researchers and reporters all over the world to this day: motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
15/ Many more people now know who Dana Loesch's soul. Here's more about her: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
16/ The Parkland kids are jolting America from its resignation that nothing can be done about the NRA's deadly hold on our politics. But they're also building on work of other activists, like @shannonrwatts and Moms Demand: motherjones.com/politics/2014/…
17/ @lucymcbath's son Jordan Davis was killed by a racist with a gun. Now she's running for Congress: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
18/ Now, after calling NRA leaders "great Americans" Trump is trying to raise money off of Parkland victims. Let. That. Sink. In: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
19/ And Trump is echoing NRA's talking point of arming teachers and turning schools into prisons: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
20/Philando Castile was a school worker legally licensed to carry a gun. When a cop murdered him in front of his partner and her little girl, the NRA said nothing. Because he was black. Then NRA is an explicitly racist organization: motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
21/ Look at the NRA's own ads to see its descent from sport and safety group to far-right racist hate-mongerer: motherjones.com/politics/2013/…
22/ I might pick this back up later, but for now know that the public opinion, which has long favored gun control, is growing stronger and stronger in favor of substantive change: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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