Truth Bomb - the NRA doesn't even have real money

Truth Bomb - the NRA doesn't even have real money

84%+ of Americans want Gun Control (see 1)

But the NRA has the Congress in the pockets right?

Yes, the NRA spends $55 million a year on Congress. (see 2)

So, everyone says, don't vote for these guys. Or to donate to a gun control group, right?

Sure, those are good ideas.

But let me put $55m in perspective:

$55m is what facebook makes as PROFIT in a single day. Not revenue. But sheer profit. (see 3)

Facebook ALONE could replace ALL of the NRA contributions, with a single day of profit – profit derived by the social interaction of all of us here.

For google, it would not even take a day. For google just 17 hours of profits and gun violence would be solved. No more dead kids. (see 4)

Apple is even better, in just 15 hours of profit, Apple could stop the next school shooting. (see 5)

Or the three of these guys could get together and split the tab and each of them give up just 8 hours of profit.

Eight hours from the year.

We have an oligarchy, let's acknowledge that. A lot of us here even work for the oligarchy. Time to ask them to cough up eight hours.

Americans want Gun Control

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-gun-control-beliefs-las-vegas-shooting-polls-surveys-2017-10#spring-2017-surveys-show-89-of-americans-including-gun-owners-and-non-gun-owners-tend-to-agree-on-one-thing-the-mentally-ill-should-be-prevented-from-purchasing-guns-1

NRA is broke - just $55m

2. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082

FB

3. https://www.statista.com/statistics/223289/facebooks-quarterly-net-income/

Google

4)https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

Apple

5. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/

Originally posted on Facebook on February 15, 2018.