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15 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1/ In his letter announcing @NRA's bankruptcy and re-incorporation to Texas, longtime NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre write, "Texas values the contributions of the NRA, celebrates our law-abiding members, and joins us as a partner in upholding constitutional freedom."
@NRA 2/ Texas has pretty lax gun laws, high rates of gun ownership, and, as a result, much higher rates of gun deaths than NY (where NRA has been incorporated since 1871).

Just look at these numbers from @GunDeaths...
@NRA @GunDeaths 3/

NEW YORK 2014-2021

Gun deaths: 2,979
Mass shootings: 124
Children killed: 16

TEXAS 2014-2021

Gun deaths: 9,033
Mass shootings: 170
Children killed: 167
@NRA @GunDeaths 4/ Difference in gun laws is stark

NY
Universal background checks
Partial gun owner licensing
Assault weapon restrictions
Open carry regulations
Community violence funding

TX
No universal background checks licensing, risk protection orders, assault weapon restrictions, etc

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16 Jan
BREAKING: A major donor to @NRA is poised to challenge key aspects of the gun group’s bankruptcy filing, in an attempt to hold executives accountable for allegedly having defrauded their members of millions of dollars to support their own lavish lifestyles theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…
@NRA 2/ The donor, Dave Dell’Aquila, is preparing to lodge a complaint in bankruptcy court in Dallas. If successful, it could stop top NRA executives discharging a substantial portion of the organization's debts.

Many examples of leaders misusing funds here
@NRA 3/ Dell’Aquila’s complaint would use a provision of the bankruptcy code to prevent the NRA from sidestepping more than $60m of debt on grounds it was improperly incurred.
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14 Jan
We've been doing a lot of digging into @NRA's long history of supporting & encouraging insurrection.

Here's @NRA head LaPierre in his 1994 book: "people have the right, must have the right, to take whatever measures necessary, including force, to abolish oppressive government.”
@NRA In 1994, as President Clinton was advancing gun reforms, LaPierre told members "the final war has begun."
@NRA In 1995, he sent a letter to asserting that Clinton's assault weapons "gives jackbooted Government thugs more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property and even injure and kill us." nytimes.com/1995/05/08/us/…
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12 Jan
1/ It's great to see a growing number of businesses suspending political donations to the 147 seditious lawmakers who voted to overturn our election.

The THREAD will explain why they must do much more than that (with some original research)! Follow along...
2/ We applaud companies like @Marriott, @amazon @ATT @Comcast, @Airbnb, @Mastercard, @Verizon, @BestBuy for putting their money where their mouths are and using the leverage of political donations to ensure lawmakers who support violent insurrection pay a price
@Marriott @amazon @ATT @comcast @Airbnb @Mastercard @Verizon @BestBuy 3/ However, given the deep roots and intense support for violent insurrection within the broader conservative movement, we urge these companies to go beyond the 147 lawmakers who cast votes of sedition.
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igorvolsky Profile picture
11 Jan
1/ @NRA has called for armed insurrection for years & it funded the Jan. 6th event & the lawmakers behind it

-NRA donated $50,000 to organization that sponsored Jan. 6th event

-@GunsDownAmerica finds that @NRA donated $525,813 to 135 (of 147) seditious lawmakers in 2018 & 2020
@NRA @GunsDownAmerica 2/ @NRA & top leaders regularly encourage insurrectionism, urging Americans to purchase firearms & ammunition to protect liberty and fight against government tyranny. On Jan 6, as a mob of thousands stormed the U.S. Capitol, they echoed NRA’s message of armed revolution
@NRA @GunsDownAmerica 3/ Once the House & Senate reconvened on Jan. 6, most of the lawmakers beholden to @NRA acted as legislative insurrectionists.

135 of the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the election received @NRA funding. They got $525,813 from @NRA between 2018 and 2020.
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10 Jan
This is such BS

The storming of the Capitol was just the latest in a long line of examples in which Trump's supporters took him LITERALLY.

At least 87 ppl were killed by right-wing terrorists in the first 3 years of Trump b/c they took him LITERALLY docs.google.com/document/d/1RK…
Here are other examples of right-wing terrorists being inspired by Trump's rhetoric

AUGUST 2015: 2 brothers beat a homeless man in Boston with a metal pipe who they believed to be an undocumented immigrant. “Donald Trump was right,” they told police. cnn.com/2015/08/20/pol…
3/ OCTOBER 2016: 3 men arrested for plotting a series of bomb attacks against Somali-Americans in Kansas.

Two of the three men were Trump supporters who shared his anti-immigrant views. foxnews.com/us/three-men-a…
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7 Jan
1/ If you’re surprised that extremists stormed the Capitol, don’t be.

These domestic terrorists & their enablers within GOP & conservative media have fomented dangerous & racist conspiracy theories about “their country” being taken away from “them” FOR YEARS. Here’s how.
2/ Organizations like @NRA & Republican lawmakers ACTIVELY encourage followers to go out and purchase firearms to protect themselves from "tyrannical government." Some lawmakers directly advocated for a militant coup. Here’s how @NRA does it:
@NRA 3/ In 2008, the election of our first black president only accelerated the hate, racism and division.

Republican lawmakers immediately adopted a tactic of delegitimizing Obama and his policies (even if they had agreed with those policies in years past).
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