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My unbridled derision of the NRA should be well-known to readers of The Square Peg. Asked to choose the single most-destructive entity in America, I would place it second, only after right-wing conservatism.

Which isn't bad for an industry trade association which modestly refers to itself as a non-profit organization seeking only to promote gun safety. Awww. Isn't that touching? If the NRA is promoting gun safety, all of us need a bulletproof vest—now.

That's because more than anything, the NRA is wildly expert at stoking fear and in turn, gun sales. Which is kind of odd for something claiming to be a non-profit interested in gun safety.

Also odd is the influence this little non-profit holds over Republican senators and representatives. I mean, how is it a little non-profit amasses the millions and millions of dollars necessary to finance campaigns for gun-friendly candidates?

Definitely something that makes you go “Hmmmm.”

As recent suits filed by state's attorneys in New York and in the District of Columbia show, the NRA has been a very profitable non-profit. Enough that CEO Wayne (spit) LaPierre (spit) has created a cool seventeen-million dollar golden parachute for himself in case the heat ever gets to be too much.

And by heat, I'm not referring to the multiple and extravagant trips to the Bahamas funded by NRA donors, either.

Under LaPierre's tutelage, the NRA has gone from a twenty-eight million-dollar surplus in 2015 to thirty-six million-dollar deficit just three years later. It should be obvious Democrats aren't the only ones who know a little something about deficit spending!

That's a sixty-four million-dollar swing, people. Also obvious it that a whole lot of money is coming from somewhere. Gosh. I wonder where?

The twin suits allege that the NRA is a fraud. That it is a for-profit political action committee that routinely flouts the conventions which bind non-profits.

Admittedly, calling the NRA a fraud is akin to describing Jeffrey Dahmer as anti-social. But it's a start. And a great one.

The toxic, wretched embarrassment that is the NRA needs to be ground underfoot like a cigarette butt. While current president Carolyn (spit) Meadows (spit) accuses New York State's Attorney Letitia James of being a—gasp!—political opportunist, one can only wonder what the United States would look like were it not for thirty years of mo' guns is mo' better gun policy.

It may require sex toys, but I pray Ms. James and Mr. Racine are able to fuck the NRA up its pasty white ass.