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Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid
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When the @NRA warns that it represents some 5 million Americans, keep in mind that the total population of the U.S. is about 323 million people, including 240 million adults. Even if all their members get mad at the companies who drop the special NRA discounts... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And let's be real. Even if there are 5 million @NRA members (and there's no way to even confirm that) I doubt 100% of them want to turn America into an armed encampment where warlords walk around strapped with AR-15s. Most gun owners are rational, normal people.
The @NRA wants you to think they are all-powerful. But 5 million people is about one-third of the number of people who watch "America's Got Talent" or my fave, "The Walking Dead" on average. If they want to be mad, let them be mad.
The American majority DOES NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE PRISONERS, surrounded by armed warlords stalking our streets and our schools. We don't have to live in fear of our former classmates, fired co-workers and fellow moviegoers. We can end this hell. The @NRA need not be our overlords.
Brooklyn alone has 2.7 million people. Los Angeles has 3.9 million people. The NRA counts on scared, paranoid, radicalized people who are stockpiling weapons. The majority aren't even customers for their gun-seller bosses. In fact, gun sellers are hurting: washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…
The companies dropping the @NRA like they're hot aren't worried about pissing off 5 million people. They're thinking about the estimated 3,979,000 Americans who will turn 18 this year alone, and their parents. Most of them want no part of the weird, paranoid, rage-filled right.
Pop quiz: who do Millennials and post-Millennials prefer to be identified with: @DLoesch, Laura Ingraham, Wayne LaPierre and @RealDonaldTrump, or LeBron, @gucci and kewl kids like @laurenduca? Ok this was a pretty easy quiz... as I've said before, the culture is on one side...
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