Growing up farming, part of becoming a man was getting your first NRA Sticker after gun class (our was in middle school I was 10) I think it cost me $1.00 I tore mine up a year later when I found out how many school shootings had happened and that was 1980. THREAD

The @NRA was instrumental and I would venture to say the most, in getting Trump elected and many in the @GOP Senate. They have been a shadow organization that has had influence far and above gun control.

I am going to start this out with the first Gun in school deadly incident. July 26, 1764, before we were even a formed Nation, this view of everyone should be armed reared its ugly head showing up with its first consequence.

The first known school shooting in what was to become the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre on July 26, 1764, in Greencastle, Pennsylvania.

A group of Lenape Native Americans entered a schoolhouse, shot and scalped schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children. Two children survived.

The second was in 1840 John Anthony Gardner Davis, a law professor at the University of Virginia, was shot by student Joseph Semmes and died three days later

The 1850s had 3 school shootings
1860's 5 school shootings
1870's 7 school shooting
1880's 10 school shootings
1890's only had 6 school shootings but experienced its first racially motivated mass school shooting in Liberty, Mississippi -

During a school exhibition and concert at the Parson Hill schoolhouse, an unknown gunman fired a double-barreled shotgun into the mixed audience, made up of black and white students, parents and teachers. Fourteen people were wounded, some seriously.

School Shooting (SS)
1900 - 13 SS - 12 deaths
1910s - 18 SS- 12 deaths
1920s - 10 SS - 5 deaths
1930s - 7 SS - 7 deaths
1940s - 8 SS - 10 deaths
1950s - 16 SS - 13 Deaths
1960s - 18 SS - 41 Deaths
1970s - 37 SS - 37 Deaths
1980's - 54 SS - 62 Deaths
1990s - 81 SS -109 Deaths

2000's - 67 SS - 107 Deaths
2010's - 217 SS 183 Deaths

The NRA was originally formed to teach gun safety and it was actually taught and sponsored in my school growing up. It was a good thing and really drove home safely. Back in the late '70s and into the 80's I started seeing members like Timothy McVeigh pop up and thought odd.

What was even odder to me was that this safety organization never came out denouncing the association with these white extremists that were popping up. and then Russia. I went to a Republican Fundraiser in the late 90s and sitting at NRA table were Russians with them.

It was at that point it all made sense. Why would an organization that was built on teaching young boys gun safety turn into the deadliest defender of some of the most outrageous horrific attacks on American soil?

Russia just got checked by the NY Attorney General.