LaPierre’s address, issued a week after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, was focused largely on perceived threats to gun rights. On Friday, a Florida man was arrested for allegedly sending pipe bombs to a number of Democratic lawmakers and activists, including Soros and Steyer. The NRA has regularly trafficked in its own form of conspiratorial anti-Semitism, working to portray Soros, Bloomberg and Steyer as nefarious figures intent on a realignment of American society that will involve stripping people of the right to bear arms. In 2016, NRA board member Ted Nugent shared a Facebook post depicting prominent American Jews as the face of gun control in the U.S. The image drew aggressive pushback from the Anti-Defamation League, but the NRA ultimately brushed off calls to respond by stripping Nugent of his title.

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2018 22:52 UTC