The National Rifle Association Annual Meeting saw streets in Nashville closed for the NRA’s massive country music street festival as hordes teemed through the Music City convention center.  The Evil Princess was at the Moms Demand Action anti-gun protest on Saturday, and noted that the predicted turnout of 400 appeared to be a lot smaller than that. She observed several of our NRA people there at one point, having cordial discussions with some of the Moms. Our friend Miggy Gonzalez channels Bob Owens and applies his own take on it, here: http://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/index.php/2015/04/11/mom-demand-in-nashville-it-is-all-in-the-angle-and-sometimes-not-even/ .

The newspapers are estimating 70,000 NRA members in attendance, by contrast.  When I attended the NRA’s annual Firearms Law Session, a small “break-out session” by NRA standards, there were some 310 attending.

Our side has the numbers.

The meeting continues Sunday.

 

Overview of the “Crowd” of Demanding Moms

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Below: Some of the NRAAM attendees engage the “Moms” in “reasoned discourse.”

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Moms Demand

 

15 COMMENTS

  1. “She observed several of our NRA people there at one point, having cordial discussions with some of the Moms.”

    That is BEAUTIFUL!!! That’s the way to do it.

  2. It always amuses me that at any gathering for a “right-wing” cause or belief the media locates the three people in costume but totally ignores the *hundreds* who show at a “Million-Whatever March” all dressed in matching professionally-made shirts with professionally printed signs and arrive by charter buses.

    Gotta love those grass roots!

  4. Right you are, Old Fezzywig…beautiful, indeed! Why can’t civility rule?

    On a related topic, Mas, will you give us your take on the “Texas Gun Law: Armed and Educated” book? I know you have your own books to promote, but this title seems like a must-have for us 800,000-plus Texas CHL holders!

    Thanks!

  7. Before someone else spots it and makes a snarky comment, let me explain it first: We liberals have such good ideas that we can’t just keep them in our heads. They zoom out, as illustrated by the nimbus around the head of the protester in the third photo. It’s the modern technological equivalent of illustrating a bright idea by having a light bulb shining over one’s head. The new version shows that our ideas are on rails, baby, on RAILS!

  8. Seems the pro-gun folks have the Moms Demand Action creatures greatly outnumbered but the anti-gun Moms make up for that with sheer tonnage.

  9. Yeah, bussed in, and STILL couldn’t match even the number in the instructor update (we had 360 I think)…

  10. Dave, as an insider, can you explain why the nimbus doesn’t form a full circle? Incomplete thought sequence, perhaps? 🙂

  11. Liberal Dave, if that depicts a bright idea, it appears that the result of following that thought process to it’s conclusion would result in a sudden fall that would leave one all wet and swimming for their life. Yep, I can see that as representative of liberal ideas.
    Myself, I took notice of the demanding Mom’s reliance on a device that aids in overcoming her obvious physical shortcomings, yet would deny me and others the right to a device that would enable us to overcome a threat to our life and well being that our own physical limitations could not overcome otherwise. Yep, I see the liberal train of thought here.
    Can you imagine if she left her device unattended? Without doubt a crazed conservative would take it and push grandma over a cliff. Yes, such devices should be heavily regulated if not outlawed completely.
    Gosh, it’s fun to think like a liberal! You don’t have to make any sense at all to be accepted into the ranks.

  13. @Dennis: No offense at all, my friend. I knew that photo was a sitting duck and was I was just trying to emulate Gen. Forrest and get there firstest with the mostest. I do believe, however, that you may have taken my flank, sir, and I fear that I may have to surrender my sword.

  14. @Mas: Thoughts which form a full circle are self-referent or merely introspective and of little use. Those which zoom outwards into the outside world are the ones of value. The photo is merely mid-zoom.

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