Straight from the “what the fuck” department I bring you the NRA‘s (National Rifle Association) latest masterwork. Apparently they want to draw in new members with this little graphic novel. If you can get over your initial urge to vomit this is some of the funniest, if misguided, propaganda ever. Even though these people are bat-shit insane, the art is well done.

I am sure the NRA will get a couple of new members from stuff like this. Do they really want the kind of person that this work will appeal to as members? Seems to me like this would right up the alley of separationists and whack jobs. Not the kind of people you can count on for continued financial support.

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If you use the text selection tool in Adobe Reader and highlight some of the half-page graphics you can cut and paste into a text editor to see some of the instructions to the illustrator for those pages. That last page with the tsunami was originally supposed to be very different:

Idea: Good (American values) and evil (anti-American influences) are locked in a final, titanic moment of combat, and the reader must act now.

Concept: Iconic evil non-American figure with blazing torch seeks to overpower and set fire to American flag defended by iconic American muscular warrior. Good guy has death grip on bad guy’s throat and on the torch, which has already caused the flag to smolder. The balance of power is dangerously equal; neither combatant has advantage.

I also noticed ‘placeholder’ comments still located ‘beneath’ some of the images. (Quark layering, perhaps?) In any case, the artist followed most image concepts pretty closely, although he *did* un-Jewify (or maybe un-Scrooge-McDuckify) the recommended Soros image a bit, and what is now the closing ‘guns against tsunamis’ image was originally imagined as a bit more Captain Marvel-y. Per-page text, and my comments [wvh], follow.

(4) Idea: George Soros (God like) sitting on stacks of money, guns burning all around him. [wvh: Final image is a falsely pious Soros; actually looks more like a liver-spotted Walter Mondale.]

(6) Idea: Globalist one-world anti-American types want to reduce our quality of freedom to that of the rest of the world. Concept 1: Globalist holding blue earth in one hand and crumpled-up Bill of Rights in the other. Concept 2: Globalist holds globe, from which the U.S. land mass has been plucked, oceans pour into the resulting void. Cutline will help explain this. [wvh: Concept 2 was the one used.]

(12) Idea: Brutal, door-to-door, armed gun confiscations. Concept: Four burly armed SWAT-equipped pol body-slam a fragile 71-year-old lady to the floor of her modest kitchen to wrest and recover her opened, non-threatening pearl-handled revolver. Cutline explains this illustration depicts a true event that happened in post-Katrina New Orleans (see attached frame grabs).

(14 – 15) Idea: When disaster triggers collapse of society, all that stands between your family’s security and chaotic crime is a firearm. Concept: Night scene of a horrifically ravaged middle-class neighborhood – by hurricane or tornado or riots or terrorist act – abandoned by police and left powerless against violent mayhem by roving gangs. A lone father stands guard over his home, wife and children with a shotgun.

(20) Idea: Criminal gangs are in all communities and of all races. Concept: Clearly Asian, black, white and Latino gang members. [wvh: Not sure which one of these brownish individuals is supposed to be white, though.]

(29) Idea: Good (American values) and evil (anti-American influences) are locked in a final, titanic moment of combat, and the reader must act now. Concept: Iconic evil non-American figure with blazing torch seeks to overpower and set fire to American flag defended by iconic American muscular warrior. Good guy has death grip on bad guy’s throat and on the torch, which has already caused the flag to smolder. The balance of power is dangerously equal; neither combatant has advantage. [wvh: Final version has nice, white, nuclear family (albeit 1.1 kids short) peacefully watching an approaching tsunami in the final moments before it sweeps them away.]

Download the whole thing! here (pdf)