Many Americans have long known that the NRA is a criminal lobby. They advocate gun sales to increase the profits of gun manufacturers and gun sellers while fully aware that thousands of lives are lost each year from the use of guns which should not have been in the possession of their attackers. Military weapons must not be allowed to be legally purchased by ordinary citizens. Background checks must be mandatory for all gun sales. Mentally challenged men and women must be forbidden to purchase weapons of mass destruction. Those on the ‘no-fly’ list must also be denied access to lethal weapons. The NRA lies to its members and to ignorant Americans who refuse to learn the truth. They are as guilty as the mass murderers who attack innocent people more times each year than there are days on the calendar.

Now we are learning that the Kremlin and the NRA have been working together for years. Most recently, the FBI has begun an investigation into money moving from a soviet operative to the NRA.

For years the NRA has been an agent connecting Republican hierarchy and Russians, including speaking engagements. They also attempted to arrange a ‘back channel communications link’ between Trump and Putin; similar to the efforts of Jared Kushner in the Seychelles Islands during the 2016 campaign.

An e-mail sent directly to Alexander Torshin, a deputy of the Russian central bank and leader in Putin’s United Russia Party revealed the three way connection.

In 2016, the NRA donated 55 million dollars to Republicans; 30 million of it to Trump. In 2012, the gun lobby committed only 10 million dollars to Mitt Romney’s campaign.

Occasionally Trump or Putin will make comments pretending to have a disagreement. However, the facts have been clear since 2013. They have an unbreakable and secretive relationship which includes collusion during the 2016 campaign. The facts are clear and misdirection will no longer hide the truth from intelligent Americans.

The NRA, Trump, and Putin share mutual goals; to increase their personal wealth, and increase their power over our nation’s government, eventually destroying democracy completely and establishing fascism. Their united goal is to make Trump the last elected American president. Ignorant and self-serving Republicans are turning their backs on the truth.

The only way to stop this is to remove Trump’s corrupt and hypocritical party from power. You have a single weapon, and only one; your vote. Use it wisely. Vet the person for whom you intend to cast your ballot. If he or she is a con artist, and not a man or woman who shares the majority of your beliefs, find a candidate who does. Refuse to vote for a major corporation or a member of the one-percent. Vote for yourself, your family, and your friends. Remove all power from Fuhrer Donald Trump and save your country. On November 6, 2018, return the House and Senate to Democrats or Independents. Vote for yourself. Say no to a plutocracy served by an autocratic government.

Please inform others of the truth; thank you.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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