harpsiccord: mercyofcallouses: I work for an organization that cut its ties with the NRA over the pa
harpsiccord:mercyofcallouses:I work for an organization that cut its ties with the NRA over the past week.We’ve received tons of death threats against our employees and buildings.Some of these threats and credible and specific. We’ve had to assign full-time security to some of our people and hire additional on-site security. Never was a concern before. Never even a thought.Rank and file employees and partners of ours continue to be harassed endlessly on the phone and in person by parties claiming to represent the NRA membership.The people that are doing this are out of their minds. They’re accusing us of being Communists, Russian shills, in the pocket of the Democrat party, all kinds of things that are just stupid. They throw out absurd accusations in their tirades (like we have some special relationship with Obama, or are channeling money to liberal candidates, or whatever), and then I start hearing these claims echoed by others in the mob.This is frightening. The people who are doing this are crazy. And they are ANGRY.What makes it even more absurd is that our organization only had relationships with a few hundred NRA members. But we’ve received many thousands of calls, and thousands of those were straight up threats or even just trolling and trying to bog down our operations.Despite the fact that our organization is entirely non-partisan, takes no political stances, and never once said that the NRA was responsible for gun violence.But for a whole lot of us, there’s no longer any denying that the NRA is a terrorist organization. They WANT us to be afraid because we made them angry. Because we dared to say no.So much for that free market conservative-types are always crowing about.I’m sorry you have to go through that. -- source link