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The NRA hasn't done jack shit in decades. As I said, the NRA did their level best to kill Heller v. D.C. before it even got off the ground, and that was the single most important 2A win in the last 50 years.
Don't give me that bullshit about them being the line between the US and tyranny, when they won't even speak up against tyranny when cops murder legally armed citizens.
You are confusing actual results with people being on the right side of a conflict.
The NRA, even if it is an incompetent worthless organization as you suggest, at least is trying to stop the slippery slope towards a society of people who kneel to the wishes of the new king.
The corruption of police does not mean an excuse to de-arm the populace so they can be lose their freedoms to authoritarianism and the NRA supporting guns in every context, even ones that seemingly are awful, doesn't mean that they are awful. Perhaps the NRA supports cops doing awful things because they don't want to lose a large pillar of support.
Instead of criticizing the very people who are preventing society from crumbling into a new technocratic kingship, what about thanking them? What about saying "thanks NRA for encouraging the world to be filled with guns?"
Only those ignorant of history (and to be clear, I am not implying this is you, I am explicitly saying this is you) are against the NRA and it's wish to prevent the world from going to pre-democratic times in which only the king decided who should have arms.
No, I'm not. The NRA is not on the right side; they're on the side of authoritarians. They're on the side of the boot that is kicking you in the face. They're on the side of the cops that will be the ones disarming people, and on the side of the christian nationalists that want to take guns from everyone but white evangelical christians. The NRA does not believe that the second amendment exists for ALL people, regardless of race, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation, and they've never even tried to really conceal that. That's why they are silent when someone like Filandro Castile is murdered by a cop.
When the NRA fixes it's own shit so that, as an organization, they truly believe that 2A rights exist for everyone, and are willing to treat the disarming of any group as a crime, then we can talk. But that's not who they are now, and it's not likely that this is who they will be at any time in the future, since they've made it nearly impossible for grassroots change to happen within the org.