NRA’s media contact: media@nrahq.org / 703-267-3820

The following questions were asked directly to the NRA’s HQ over a decade ago, a few years ago and recently. The reason for the questions: each time an unarmed person is shot and killed, if black, NRA quickly opens its loud, propagandist mouth and chants either one of two things: “the armed person did the right thing (against the unarmed person)” or “only a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun”.

I’ve asked questions previously, but NRA refuses to provide answers or provide any Jim Crow era campaign information, but certainly has a lot of smug comments regarding the questions (“I wasn’t working here then”, “who wants to know” — which is strange given NRA loves to brag about its history).

The questions, again:

1. Did the NRA reach out to the family of Emmett Till after his savage murder by NRA members and while his surviving family members were forced to flee Mississippi because they were constantly being terrorized by armed persons? In the same way the NRA reached out to defend and support George Zimmerman, did the NRA immediately start a Dana Loesch type campaign, “you see, if Emmett Till’s family had a gun(s), they could have stopped the bad guys with guns”?

2. Did the NRA reach out to the family of WWII veteran Medgar Evers after he was gunned down by NRA member Byron DeLaBeckwith, and especially during the first trial which resulted in a parade being thrown for DeLaBeckwith? I do know kkk/NRA member Ross Barnett Sr. reached out to and praised DeLaBeckwith, along with kkk grand dragon William David McCain (relative of John McCain) — both of whom incited Ole Miss riot to protest against Civil and Equal Rights.

3. Did the NRA reach out to the family of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., specifically in the same manner as George Zimmerman was defended and reached out to, as NRA believes that a gun would help protect persons from harm? Dr. King received countless death threats, daily.

4. How often did the NRA come to the defense of non-whites denied ammo/guns from gun stores during Jim Crow? And, of course, this was all before background checks, therefore the NRA wouldn’t have had a problem defending the rights of gun ownership for *anyone*. And I’m specifically asking about ammo and gun denials based upon race in Jim Crow states.

5. Did the NRA reach out to blacks while or after terrorized by whites during the nation’s largest race riot (whites destroying a wealthy black Tulsa, OK neighborhood) — to ensure their safety to prevent further harm?

• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tulsa-race-riots_us_574fc3aae4b0ed593f134a92
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/
• https://tulsahistory.org/learn/online-exhibits/the-tulsa-race-riot/

6. Did the NRA reach out to the surviving family members of either of these massacres/lynching — to state the same “good guy with gun stops bad guy(s) with gun” rhetoric:

1. WWII Veteran Harvey E. Clark:
   • http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95519826/
   • http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-21237709.html
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero_Race_Riot_of_1951
   • https://www.facebook.com/140162739346559/photos/a.177309328965233.45547.140162739346559/880220648674094/?type=1
   • https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=881512145211611&id=140162739346559
2. Slocum Massacre:
   https://www.facebook.com/ZinnEducationProject/photos/a.10150481152574677.373088.121352639676/10152265114524677/?type=1
3. 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riot
   • http://www.thenation.com/article/tulsa-1921
   • http://tulsahistory.org/learn/online-exhibits/the-tulsa-race-riot/
4. Jesse Washington lynching, Waco, TX
   • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5401868
   • http://www.murderpedia.org/male.W/w/washington-jesse-photos.htm
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington
5. St. Louis, Missouri race riot
   This riot against non-whites sent actress and singer, Josephine Baker, fleeing to another country:
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis_Riot
   • http://www.stlpublicradio.org/programs/black-white/raceriot.php
6. Rosewood, Florida Massacre
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre
   • http://www.myblackhistory.net/Rosewood.htm
7. Whites Massacre Chinese in Wyoming Territory — end result: Chinese banned from the United States
   • http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/whites-massacre-chinese-in-wyoming-territory
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871
   • http://www.wwcc.wy.edu/wyo_hist/1850.htm

The new NRA rhetoric to counter the above: “Charlton Heston marched with Dr. King”, but all of the above was *decades/generations prior to* his role as NRA President/spokesperson and that rhetoric doesn’t *answer* how/if the NRA assisted ALL US citizens to ensure their gun rights to protect them from armed savages (kkk, white nationalists, who were also ironically members of the NRA, and still are today).

7. Does/did the NRA refuse membership to known kkk members and white nationalists, persons who denied civil rights to others, and especially those with desire to “wipe out other races”, as promoted often on social media by NRA members (persons with NRA insignias in their bios, their cars and more).

8. What exactly did the NRA do for blacks during Jim Crow? What was your (NRA) role towards blacks during Jim Crow?

Answers to this questions will confirm a lot about the history of the NRA. Refusal to answer will also confirm a lot about the history of the NRA, and which side of history the NRA has always stood on.

Thanks,
Tamra Cronin

but still awaiting NRA’s answers regarding NRA’s role during Jim Crow/Civil Rights movement.

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