The NRA is very, very mad at ThinkProgress.
NRATV, the gun lobby’s live-streamed propaganda outlet, spent most of Wednesday deriding our reporters. NRATV’s Twitter account repeatedly tweeted insults at us. They’ve called us “a fraud,” “people who read with pictures,” and “obscene.”
“There are countless stories in mass shootings & in robberies where someone with a gun, the great equalizer, managed to turn the tables on the bad guy. So where these dudes at @thinkprogress get this all mixed up is that they don’t understand how preventing things works” @DLoesch pic.twitter.com/YHQuCjjUkC
— NRATV (@NRATV) March 28, 2018
"@ThinkProgress I have had enough of your bogus nonsense…That officer confronted the suspect long before he was dead—confronted that shooter. And in the end saved lives. That proves my point that a good guy with a gun saves lives." –@stinchfield1776 #NRA pic.twitter.com/rSmxBjMSO5
— NRATV (@NRATV) March 28, 2018
We’ve gotten under the NRA’s skin, and it’s not hard to see why.
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