None of the measures by the National Rifle Association is moral. After Kevin McCarthy, of the Republican Leadership, took down his anti-Semitic meme, the NRA reinstated it. This is more troubling in that this is the NRA and it's membership. We don't know how many extremists exist among that membership.
November 1, 2018
Tom Steyer, (click here) whose father was Jewish, called a similar tweet from Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the House majority leader, 'a straight-up anti-Semitic move'
The National Rifle Association tweeted that three prominent liberal Jewish billionaires are pushing “their elitist agenda on Americans.”
The tweet came three days after a shooter killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue. In the responses, a number of readers charged that the tweet fed into far-right notions of a Jewish conspiracy, as critics alsonoted in February when NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre gave a speech accusing the same three men — George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg — of promoting “socialism” and “social engineering.”...
These are messages of hate. ANY anti-Semitic anything is a message of hate. Such a message is not protected by freedom of speech. There need to be stronger laws about hate crimes TO PREVENT HATE CRIMES FROM OCCURRING, including hate speech. There is simply no reason for such a message to exist. Freedom is about freedom for everyone and our laws should reflect that.
