NRA Gun control activists

NRA Gun control activists

- advocates / defends gun ownership and use

- fairy tales rewriten in order to promote responsible firearm use by children and part of an accident prevention programme / to raise awareness

-guns keep people and children safe -want to limit gun rights

Denonce gun violence, particularly when it involves children

- an outrageous / scandalous marketing stunt to promote gun sales in the US

Do you think these fairy tales were powerful enough to seduce children into wanting firearms ?

Gullible

The dice is cast

Easily influenced

It feel in danger, they will immediatly think guns are the only solution

- easy to manipulate

- a matter of parental up-bringing. No need to have those fairy tales,

- to raise awareness/ make sb aware of the dangers of guns

- the children who read those fairy are probably children of NRA members.

The tone of the video is satirical/humoristic.

Americans are depicted/described as paranoid people who have always fought against foreign/different people such as the English, Native Americans or later Afro-Americans

An excerpt from the Movie « Columbine (Moore)which deals with a school shooting which occured in the US in 1999

- Slavery, Samuel Colt who invented the barrel which was very useful as there was no need to reload the gun over and over.

- The KKK and the NRA (the national riffle Association)>a powerful pro-guns lobby/ influential. In the video, it is not a coincidence that the KKK and the NRA were created/founded at the same time. The NRA might have had racist members.

- Laws on guns are not strict in the US. Anybody can buy a gun at any time.

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Screen capture from a website, which is actually the one of the NRA for it’s members (NRA family)

- illustration and a title : little red Riding Hood, which is a famous fairy tale for kids.

- the fairy tale seems reimagined/rewritten as the grandma is not the defenseless character of the original book, indeed she is pointing a riffle at the wolf.

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main topic of the article?

• the two sides cited and their main arguments

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why these fairy tales rewritten

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two points of view

Article is about the NRA’s rewriting of some classic fairy tales on its website destined to their members

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