UPDATED:

As we are all acutely aware, the NRA came out with guns blazing today (no pun intended) blaming gun violence on everything but guns.  Wayne LaPierre, chief propagandist, blamed everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Hollywood stars for mass shooters killing hundreds of people with the AR-15, the Official Rifle of Angry White Men.

With all this noise, I believe you might be a bit discourage and feeling helpless.  Well, you’re not.  Remember how we virtually put Rush Limbaugh out of business by shaming his sponsors into dropping out?  You can use that same tactic again, this time against the NRA’s business partners who provide all kinds of discounts to the mouth breathers who are members.  Here’s a handy list to help get you started:

• Hertz
• Avis and Budget
• Lifeline Screening – a preventative health testing company
• Symatec – Norton anti virus software
• Allied Van Lines
• North American Van Lines
• Simplisafe – home security
• Starkey Hearing Technologies
• Manage UrID – personal privacy
• Life Insurance Central
• Medical Concierge Network – doctor care
• eHealth – insurance
• Teladoc – telemedicine service, whatever that is
• FedEx
• LifeLock
• Wild Apricot – whatever that is
• First National Bank of Omaha – issue(d) the official credit card of the NRA.  As soon as Think Progress published their name, the bank dumped the card.  One down.
• Enterprise, National, and Alamo – the conglomerate who owns these three major brands dropped the NRA today.  Two down.

Keep those cards and letters going out, kids, the evil cyclops is starting to stagger.

UPDATE:

As of this evening, here’s who’s dropped the NRA like a hot potato:

• Hertz
• Symatec
• Lifelock
• Simplisafe
• North American Van Lines
• MetLife (not originally listed by us)
• Chubb Insurance (not originally listed by us)

Keep up the pressure, especially on Amazon to drop NRATv.  We’re getting results.

I am in a meeting but I did not want you to miss this.  Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Awww, shucks, Blake Farenthold got a letter from the Federal Elections Commission saying he has to return a whole big pile of his campaign contributions.

This is just for one month.

To see all 4 of them, you can see the missive from the FEC right here.  They are attached after the letter.

Sorry, Ducky Boy, but you can’t take illegal contributions and you can’t sexually harass a staff member.  What’s there left for you to do in Washington?

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

You know how Republicans are constantly saying that we folks who hate for people to get mowed down with a semi-automatic weapon ate playing politics?

Well, they need a mirror.

Under the “Name One, You Old Witch” category, we have this.

“Obviously, there’s a lot of politics in it. And it’s interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats, but we don’t want to, the media doesn’t talk about that either.”

— Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY)

Under the “Don’t Show The Pain” category, we have this.

“Many in legacy media love mass shootings… Crying white mothers are ratings gold.”

— NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch

And the final one for this evening is from the Prince of Twitter.

Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. Wrong!

Donald Trump, May 21st, 2016.

Please feel free to use the comment section to add any you have.

Thanks to BillyJoe for the heads up.

Okay, here’s the original list of speakers scheduled to speak at the NRA Forum in May:

From here, these people were listed as of Jan 18:

• Wayne Lapierre
• Chris Cox
• President Donald J. Trump
• Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.
• Katie Pavlich
• Senator Ted Cruz
• Mark Geist
• Governor Scott Walker
• Senator Marco Rubio
• Speaker Of The House, Paul Ryan
• Us Representative, Trey Gowdy
• Senator Rand Paul

Now, from here, only these are listed:

• Wayne Lapierre
• Chris Cox
• Sen. Ted Cruz
• Mark Geist
• Rep. Richard Hudson
• Tomi Lahren

Hey, ya gotta hand it to Ted Cruz – he’s a genuine idiot.  He’s the only senator to hang around.  Damn, that’s bean dip dumb.

Thanks to S Grey for the heads up.

Oh Florida, you suck.

I kinda suspect this ain’t gonna solve the problem.

With the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting still looming large, its students in the Capitol to lobby for gun controls, the Florida House overwhelmingly passed a measure Wednesday its sponsor said aimed at bringing “light” to the schools.

The bill (HB 839) would require all public schools to post the state motto, “In God We Trust,” in a “conspicuous place.”

And they wash their hands and was away, even though the last shooting was at a Baptist Church here in Texas where I suspect there were a multitude of God things on the damn walls.  Well, at least they died trusting God.