Legal Expenses Are Sinking The NRA

Here's some good news for Mothers Day for moms who send their kids off to school (or theaters or malls, etc.) and fear that they'll be butchered by a killer with a gun. According to internal National Rifle Rampage Association documents, the fees being billed by the gun lobby's law firm -- Brewer Attorneys & Counselors -- are mounting, with some $24 million charged by the firm since last year. The internal documents place the burn rate for legal expenses at a mind-boggling $100,000 per day, an unsustainable rate for an organization whose dues fell $55 million in one year following the 2016 elections.

Gun-running felon and former NRA President Oliver "Went South" North was sounding the alarm internally, but the NRA's Chief Executive and one of the most scurrilous monsters on the planet Wayne LaPierre managed to depose him in an internal power struggle. The finances of the NRA and their operations in the political sphere are prompting some to call for them being stripped of their non-profit status. The State of New York's Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation into the NRA's financial improprieties. LaPierre himself likes to live in a manner befitting a king, spending NRA funds lavishly on himself, and will fight any threat to his personal status, as Oliver North found out.

It's long past time for this group to lose their non-profit status, and to pay the price for their malignant, deadly role in our society.