Leftist Media Flabbergasted as to Why the NRA Is Surging In Donations and Interest…Allow Me

Donations to the group spiked in the aftermath of the school shooting, in which a former student armed with an assault-style rifle killed 17 people. According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, the NRA received “twice as much money from nearly five times as many donors” in the week after the shooting, compared with the week before.

Donations to the NRA’s Political Victory Fund, which contributes money to political campaigns for NRA-friendly candidates, tripled in February from the month earlier, reported CNN.

The article goes on to talk about how the NRA increased its advertising and recruitment efforts after the Parkland shooting, which is not uncommon for many groups, especially ones that come under immediate attack after an atrocity, as the NRA sometimes does. The NRA is also aware of what usually follows after shootings occur, and readies itself to combat activist groups, politicians, and the media in order to keep gun rights secure.

That’s been their job for eons now.

It should be noted that while the extra advertising likely helped it boost its numbers, the advertising can hardly be blamed for the surge of donations and membership.

As has been proven for ages, the NRA is an organization that thrives when pressure is applied to it, gun owners, or the 2nd Amendment. Its army of lawyers, experts, and commentators has made it something of a fortress that many people run to when they feel their 2nd Amendment right is under attack.

If you were to believe HuffPo, you’d think people flocked to the NRA after Parkland because the NRA scared them into doing so. That’s not even remotely close to the truth. The activist led Parkland students, media, and politicians is what drove the people into the arms of the NRA, but it’s not the mindless fear-driven kind of scared the left would have you believe.

Twitter user Stephen Miller called what happened with the NRA after Parkland very accurately.

It’s that simple. The people and their rights were attacked, they voted with their wallet on the issue and went about their lives. The NRA could have sat stock still in its advertising department during the entire episode and the end result would have been more or less the same.

Like Obama was to gun sales, the left is to NRA membership. When it comes to advertising a need for the product the NRA is selling, there is no better salesman than the leftist activist complex.

People like their guns. They want to keep them. They want to maintain their right to keep them. With every shot that is fired at our 2nd Amendment right, the NRA fortress gets stronger. It’s that simple.