If you’ve ever owned a cat, you know that on occasion it won’t use the box. If you’re careless about cleaning it or don’t have a sufficient number of boxes, cats will often find someplace else to do their business. But, what you’d never consider doing after finding a misplaced poop is torture and kill the animal. Sadly, that’s true for all of us but Douglas Hamlin, the new head of the National Rifle Association.

According to media reports, which are based on court records, Hamlin’s fraternity had a cat named BK living in the frat house. After the cat refused to use the box a number of times, fraternity members took the cat out, cut off his paws, strung him up, and then burned him to death. One of the fraternity members felt guilty afterwards and confessed to friends, who then reported the incident to police, who charged them all with animal cruelty (a misdemeanor in 1979-80). Other reporting and a purported internal NRA e-mail indicates that Hamlin was not directly involved in the torture and killing, but was charged after the fact for participating in an effort to cover the crime up.

While a judge had harsh words for Hamlin, who was the leader of the fraternity, for not stopping the torture and killing and then covering for the killers, even calling it an “unconscionable and heinous” act, the young men had the crimes expunged from their records after performing 200 hours of animal-related community service. Since 1980, animal torture and extreme cruelty have been elevated to felony-level crimes in a growing number of states, so this slap on the wrist would likely not happen today.

But, my goal in writing this article isn’t to take Hamlin to task. He got the punishment the law demanded after committing the crime (or covering up for it if that’s how it really went), and now his career is likely to be threatened if not ended by this disgusting crime coming to light. People who thought they knew him are probably not going to look at him the same way now, and this will have severe social and financial costs in the long run. Nothing I could do here would make his situation any worse than it already is, nor do I want to pile on.

What should concern us is the effect it has on the overall gun rights community. To illustrate that, let’s look a little more at the media reporting on the subject. As is normal practice, writers with The Guardian looked at old newspapers (probably on microfiche) to see who might be able to tell them more. Shelagh Abbs Winter was named in one of these articles as the person who told the police what she had heard.

Today, though, she had no idea that the person she had reported on went on to lead the NRA. When The Guardian contacted her, she said, ”You don’t know how amazing this is to me, because I am a member of Moms Demand Action.” and later added, “Once a creep, always a creep.”

Obviously anti-gun groups are all piling on now that this has come to light. The general idea that gun rights activists are “heartless” gets some support in the public imagination. After all, they say, if we don’t care about the deaths of children, they shouldn’t be surprised that our “leader” would cover for the gruesome killing of a pet. All you have to do now is search for “NRA Cat” on social media to see all of the popular voices making the connection here.

On top of this, many people assume that gun rights is a strictly conservative position. There certainly are more conservatives into guns than independents and “liberals”, so despite the many exceptions people tend to focus on the rule. Because the wider public thinks guns=conservatives or even guns=MAGA, this makes the wider conservative movement look hypocritical after all of the noise about alleged dog and cat eating going on in Ohio.

While I know there are certainly people who think hurting animals is no big deal, or who want to talk about how this happened decades ago, this isn’t the time to defend “our” side. We have to keep in mind that the NRA has had serious problems for decades and has largely dropped the ball on gun rights while other organizations have picked it up.

The NRA’s bad habit of choosing problem leaders isn’t something we’re obligated to reflexively defend. The gun rights movement and the wider conservative world doesn’t owe the NRA a duty to go down with the ship (again). Instead, we should be reminding people that the NRA isn’t us, and doesn’t represent anybody but their members who are a small fraction of gun owners. We should also speak out against evil things like animal cruelty instead of trying to minimize and defend it.

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  1. When they give a damn about various illegals cooking cats I will begin to care about isolated incidents that took place before or around the time of my birth.

    • This is nothing more than political expediency. These same people concerned about one cat from 45 years ago can’t even bring themselves to care about HUMANS getting raped, assaulted, and murdered by Kamala’s illegals.

      Pres. Bill Clinton: “…a young woman who’d been killed by an immigrant…”

      “If they (Kamala’s illegals) had all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn’t have happened.”

      Oh really? You mean exactly what Trump has been saying for years?! Even Slick Willie is out there making the MAGA argument.

      • I figured I would start with low expectations as I cannot expect fully human behavior or thinking from commies.

        • Well here we go again, if it’s not one black eye for the NRA it’s another black eye for the NRA. Covering up animal cruelty is dead serious and covering it up to keep NRA members like me in the dark grinds my gears.

          If Hamblin had any character he would have turned in the perps who by all accounts tortured and killed the cat. Our new dear NRA leader participated in a cover up that obviously could not be kept under wraps. I suggest Hamblin step down sooner than later because after Wayne the bad press is more than enough for embarrassed members not to donate, etc.

          Of course uncovered cover-ups seem to be everywhere like kkkackles is not Black, kkkackles did not work at McDonalds, kkkacle’s hubby slapped around some woman, stolen valor tampon tim lied about his service, etc.

          TRUMP/VANCE 2024.

              • Clotblocker is probably a communist trolling this comment section because I don’t recall seeing this dim bulb post before (but it may just be a change in avatar screwing with my recall).
                Don’t worry about this loser; they always either overplay their hand, including but not limited to getting banned from this site. Or giving up out of a lack of reactions from the regulars here.
                If nothing else, a helicopter will come to give him a free ride. 🚁🚁🚁

    • “various illegals cooking cats“

      Yeah, just more of your bullshit claims. JP Mandel already admitted he’s willing to “create stories”:

      “JD Vance admits he is willing to ‘create stories’ to get media attention
      Republican vice-presidential candidate defends spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants
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      In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio.“

      Initially, it was just Donald Trump who confessed on tape to grabbing kitties, now we find out the CEO of the NRA has killed peoples pets, torturing them and burning them alive.
      Add that to the Republican governor killing a bird dog for being a bird dog, and shooting a goat because it smelled. What a surprise, a goat smells bad. I guess she never really spent any time on the farm.

      These MAGA Republicans are some murderous, weird people.

      • Case in point for my second comment. Get your supervisor to rewrite your copypasta it is stale and did not survive actual video from the region.

        • “actual video from the region”

          Interestingly deceptive claim…

          We’re talking Springfield Ohio but you say “from the region”, attempting to shift the goal post geographically.

          And really, what video? Do you have anything more than your deceptive claim?

          Nope, just disinformation Central here.

          It was all a lie, and that’s why Trump and JP Mandel have dropped the story.

          Now it’s ‘Trump worked at a McDonald’s’… Another bullshit lie.

          It was a set up, the McDonald’s was closed on Sunday, those weren’t real customers but rather pre-vetted Trump supporters. They conducted rehearsals, it was kabuki theater for MAGA “poorly educated” supporters.

            • Yeah, more BS.

              Like I said, moving the goal post geographically by claiming a police body cam video from Canton, Ohio of an American who had mental issues killing a cat, and pretending like it is a Haitian from Springfield, Ohio.

              “The Canton Police Department has released bodycam footage of 27-year-old Allexis Ferrell being arrested after allegedly eating a cat in Ohio.

              The incident happened on Friday, Aug. 16, in the 1100 block of 13th Street SE in Canton. After receiving multiple calls about the incident, police arrived at the scene and arrested Ferrell on animal cruelty charges.

              In all, Ferrell was charged with the following:
              Prohibitions concerning companion animal
              Cruelty to animals
              Disorderly conduct

              According to a police report obtained by 3News, officers allege that Ferrell “smashed the cat’s head with her foot and then began to eat the cat.”

              In addition, the officer says he saw blood on her feet and fur on her lips. Following the incident, the humane society came and picked up the cat.

              It is worth noting that this incident in Canton is completely unrelated to the false claims being made in Springfield, Ohio. (https://www.wkyc.com/a…)

              Following the debate, the Associated Press also reported that Ferrell is not Haitian. She was born in Ohio and graduated from Canton McKinley High School in 2015.

              Courtesy: Canton Police Department

              READ MORE: https://www.wkyc.com/a…

              At 3News, we’re here to share your voice and tell your story. Share your ideas, thoughts, concerns and engage in conversations about the communities in which we all call home.“

              As always, local reporting shows the bullshit from the MAGA conservative disinformation campaign for what it is, nothing but lies.

              • And as typical you have nothing but media lies. Sorry bud saw too much with Haitians to doubt what typically goes down. Have fun with the propaganda blitz I am sure it will work this time.

              • Lol wait wait wait. It is bullshit because it happens in multiple other locations and not specifically the one that has other videos floating around for. Almost like anywhere you have Hatian illegals you have cats being eaten. What barrel did you scrape the bottom of for that gem retard?

            • I love how he isn’t even aware (not is the media yet) that we have reports of this kind of shit going on in NYC for 40 odd years with the refugee’s and waiver on standards immigrants from Haiti. Spin spin miner you may just get ahead of it.

      • minor49iq…A disgruntled democRat like you could play the innkeeper in Les Mis…

        Food beyond compare
        Food beyond belief
        Mix it in a mincer
        And pretend it’s beef
        Kidney of a horse
        Liver of a cat
        Filling up the sausages
        With this and that

      • Was thinking the same about you Marxists. Especially now that The Cadaver has OK’d a DOD Directive authorizing the US Military to use lethal force on American Citizens. We actually expected you Marxist traitors to get around to that sooner or later.

      • STFU, commie. The only unhinged, weird & violent ppl here are you lefty gaytaards. When Trump wins, we will be waiting to see how long before you give in to your violent urges! Sit still. Your helicopter is inbound.

      • ‘In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail…’

        Wait, a politician was playing politics? During election season?

    • Wrong.

      “…Hamlin, who was the leader of the fraternity…”

      As a leader, you have certain obligations and responsibilities that the (uninvolved) rank and file do not. If he was not involved in the act, he should have approached law enforcement, etc. immediately after he became aware, demanded that the perpetrators were removed from the frat, and assumed responsibility for the act. He did not.

      For an organization on the scale and import such as the NRA, this incident single-handedly disqualifies him from serving as (any!) organization head.

      There are other fish in the sea that are equally or more qualified leaders and do not have the disqualifying tarnish that he does.

      • You’re right – leaders must bear responsibility for the actions of their subordinates, no matter what kind of organization it is. As a palliative, a good leader must hold everyone equally accountable to the law at a minimum, and preferably… accountable to whatever code of conduct the organization has adopted.

        Except communists. They get a pass because the present communist regime nationally and in communist states like NY, Colorado, Commiefornia and Minnesota give all criminals a free pass, especially the loyal brownshirts who do as instructed.

    • can’t argue with that..personally though, I consider both of these instances to be unacceptable

    • I don’t know who you’re referring to as “they”, but one thing I know for sure; and that is the NRA is so utterly dysfunctional that it’s completely incapable of picking good people for their leadership rolls.
      At this point, I say disband the damn NRA so it can’t harm our cause any more, and let other organizations continue to do the job that the NRA can’t or won’t do!!

  2. Good idea, Sensiba, let’s once again throw someone under the bus because our enemies dug up something he was involved in as a dumb kid 45 years ago. We don’t need enemies on the left when we’ve got virtue-signaling folks on the right who think that appeasing the left works.

    • Jennifer is right. The NRA leader needs to go immediately. It isn’t like anyone really knew about this. But watch the pinko open border hypocrites make a big stink over it.

      Is this the only guy in the country capable of leading the NRA? He failed before he ever got started.

      • Because if we just choose someone that doesn’t offend them, they’ll finally love us!

        No, they’ll always hate us and always find stuff to make a big stink about. Letting them use the virtue signal veto over NRA appointments is dumb. This will blow over and normal people won’t ever even think about it a year from now.

        • Wrong raincloud…After coming off years of wasting resources on Wayne the Hamblin fellow et al should have been vetted so members and the org. would not be crapped on again. So man up and cease pointing fingers at them when in this case them is not the problem.

          • Debbe is a walking example of why women should never be allowed to make important decisions. Stuff like this is the reason Conquest’s Second Law of politics is a thing. Explicitly allowing your enemies to frame the leadership requirements for your organization is such a female thing.

            Covering for frat brothers 45 years ago says nothing negative about his fitness for the job. What it does is create another instance of the “eternal present” — your sins are never forgotten or forgiven, our historical figures are erase because they didn’t hold modern sensibilities.

            That we allow Debbie and women like her to have a voice at all is a big factor in the decline of everything. Too many of you men have been propagandized by women in your lives like Debbie — school teachers and the like — your whole life.

            • raincloud…Wipe the crybaby snot off your face. Instead of full disclosure azzhats just like you sat on their butts and thought no one would dig up dirt on Wayne’s f’ing replacement…Pull your head out of your behind and cease pointing fingers and making excuses for something so called “men” should have not let happen.

              • The important part isn’t whether dirt was dug up, bint, the important part is that we shouldn’t care. It’s a nothingburger. The only people pretending to be offended are idiots and people who are going to hate us anyway.

            • Dude, when you make ad-hominem attacks on another gunowner’s immutable characteristics (IDGAF if it’s race, sex or religion), you lose your own argument.
              Now be a good little commie, STFU and GTFO!!!

        • “always find stuff to make a big stink about”

          ‘Stuff’ like you choosing to use as your avatar the banner of racist traitors who took up arms against America? Yes, in that you are correct.

          • This loser is in all likelihood a communist troll feebly attempting to troll & flame in here, not realizing that the regulars can really burn a REEEEtard like him all the way to the waterline!!

      • He should have known better than to apply for the position.

        Parents & Schools should do a better job of teaching youths that bad behavior will follow them for the rest of their lives.

        • FFS, has he spent the last 45 years going around killing cats? It’s not even clear he did then — it seems like his sin was covering for frat brothers, which is an impulse most ordinary men should understand.

          This urge to never forgive a sin, even after 45 years is such a p**** leftist thing.

          • “has he spent the last 45 years going around killing cats?”

            Well now, we don’t really know, do we?

            Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence, right?

          • “This urge to never forgive a sin, even after 45 years is such a p**** leftist thing“

            Willie Brown would like a word…

            Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA Republican.

            • I’m 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 to death over commies eating their own in these comments!!

    • Nothing screams leftist like someone who wants to excuse bad decision-making and immoral behavior. The NRA is capable of picking good leaders if they felt so inclined, but apparently they don’t. People like you no doubt gave excuses for WLP as well, but he was a Democrat operative before getting hired on with the NRA, so there’s that. Trojan Horse… and like a good mole, Radioactive Wayne rode the NRA all the way down to Ground Zero exactly like Major Kong from ‘Dr. Strangelove’!

      If the NRA is incapable of picking qualified leadership, disband them. If they refuse to pick the best man for the job, disband them. Bottom line, gun owners are giving up on the NRA and the upper echelon need to either dump or get off the pot! The NRA must not be allowed to be a sea anchor on the 2A movement.

      • “If the NRA is incapable of picking qualified leadership, disband them. If they refuse to pick the best man for the job, disband them.”

        If the record was expunged it probably would not show up during background checks. What the NRA does now is a different matter.

  4. Yessir. Killing cats is awful.

    Murdering unborn babies is good. Butchering children into new genders is good. Destroying what is left of the black community by importing millions of replacements illegally is good.

    Let’s use fascist left logic on this matter. A couple of guys in college abused an animal. So ban colleges.

      • Well spoken, indeed!!! I’ll take a demon-possessed cat, a hungry rat or a riled-up honey badger… caged to my tenders 10 times out of 10 rather than have to deal with a commietard, any day of the week. Leftists are insufferable and serve no redeeming purpose other than helicopter ballast!

  5. Every place I’ve ever lived, since I was a child, has had a Pet Semitary in the back yard. Dogs and cats mostly, but I think I remember my sister having a goldfish. Occasionally, I dispatched an I’ll or injured pet. When I was in highschool there wasn’t a vetnarian in the county. I did it with compassion and regret. This is the first I’ve heard of this story. I’ll reserve opinion until I learn more, but I have to say, I find the story disturbing if true. Sounds like something the media will love though.

    • Not calling the cops after the fact is one thing, especially in the frat boy environment. IMO, frats are just above ground gangs.

      Being a party to the act as it is occurring something else entirely. Apparently the author here, who has advocated that the NRA cease all lobbying, is accusing Hamlin of just that in her opening paragraph. So, 100% on that media thing, LOL.

      • It isn’t a big deal per se, but there are other factors at play. All gun owners should demand the best representation possible.

      • “IMO, frats are just above ground gangs. ”

        Wow. I can’t say you’re wrong. Thanks for giving voice to it.

  6. The killing of cats is like rape, child slavery/arranged marriage it’s a “cultural” thing thus “ok”, the Democrats said so.

  7. TTAG’s resident childless cat lady is at it again …. at least this time (s)he’s chosen a subject (s)he knows about.

    • The boomers failed at teaching their daughters to be wives, and it cascaded into the mess we have today. This is why over 60% of men 18-29 years of age arent married or in a relationship. I imagine that percentage of men would jump up to 80% if they included 30-50 year olds.

      • Dave, not every Boomer. I’m on the trailing end of Boomers. My daughter married at 28 yoa after her education and only two serious relationships. Her husband is the second. I love him like my own son. They are homeowners and enjoy a comfortable life. I knew Chuck was a good guy when I gave him a Randall knife for Christmas a few years ago. Seems he had two great uncles that worked for Bo Randall on his cattle ranch. My son, well, he lives alone, but has a long time girlfriend. Anna Beth is a little hippie born too late, but a nice young woman. John is an electrician. Specializes in installing and servicing Generac Generators. Guess how busy he’s been in N FL the last couple of weeks. Dave not all of us Boomers dropped the ball. When I divorced my ex-wife my children chose to remain with me. And she lives at the beach. They both enjoy firearms, fishing and the outdoors in general. Don’t confuse them with Fudds. Katherine and Chuck only own what I’ll call defensive firearms. John collects mil-surp, but loves upland birds, so their’s that. He also has some plastic. Tavor, AR, etc, yawn. Anyway, Dave, don’t sell all us Boomers short.

      • Oh, Dave, I don’t know if you’re interested in this kind of thing, but I bought my son a nice German G-43 a few months ago. It’s to be a Christmas present so it’s still in my friend’s safe. He has the combination to all of mine. Lol. Anyway, just a Boomer trying to do the right thing.

        • When it comes to Center X which in this case is a sleazy cover-up a bunch of omnidirectional Gun talking blowbags couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn.

          The apple with the worm has got to go along with every self serving sack of sht who knew and said nothing.

          The Rat Party owns the moral high ground and after reading the pathetic excuse ladened replies it is easy to see why…take a bow morons.

      • It all starts with introducing unreasonable expectations to young minds. Eventually divorce becomes endemic, and the new, more realistic set of expectations leads to young men being terrified of relationships with the opposite sex, because they’ve seen the sad failures happen with their own parents and friends.

      • “teaching their daughters to be wives“

        Hilarious, that he-man woman hater shit right there is why MAGA is going to lose the election.

        Yep, keep them barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, their highest aspiration to be a ‘traditional wife’.

        Just like John Glenn, this old hillbilly thanks providence that Kathleen Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan’s daddy taught them how to be much more than just wives.

        • There’s nothing wrong with good mothers teaching daughters how to be actual ladies. Lots of maturity and common sense don’t hurt, either.

          Oh, and your Stage-4 TDS is flaring up. You’re gonna need some Dr. DJT’s Formula 47 butthurt cream to soothe that burn!

        • MajorLiar,

          Since you’ve never known the warmth of a woman, one is not surprised that you are ENTIRELY ignorant about raising children. I made NO effort, whatsoever, to make my children conservative/libertarian (as witness that three of the four are distinctly “left of center”). Their political opinions are just like anyone else’s opinions – protected by the 1A. I retain a belief that, as they grow older and learn the lessons of life (huh, strange, even the ones in school HAVE JOBS!), they will move more to the right, but . . . that’s up to them.

          My only requirement is that they be rational in their analysis of an issue, and I will (when the EXTREMELY thin skins that Leftists all seem to possess won’t tolerate the heresy of doubting the editorial page of the NY Times) question their basis for their ‘opinions’. Leftists don’t develop their opinions from learning about the world around them, and then trying to form a worldview that corresponds to ACTUAL REALITY; they grab an “approved” worldview from Leftist media/pundits, then listen ONLY to facts/opinions that reinforce their idiot worldview.

          If every Leftist has their head as far into rectal defillade as do you, it’s no wonder you idiots can’t define what a woman is (pro tip: XY chromosome pair = man, XX chromosome pair = woman – something every fifth grader knew, when I was actually learning biology). Further pro tip: the NY Times is OFTEN wrong (cf, Walter Duranty, among MANY others).

          Just because you think it, and the NY Times, WaPo, the LA Slimes, MSDNC, Commie News Network agree? It actually DOESN’T make you correct, it just makes you gullible and stupid.

  8. The NRA is not nor ever was a 2A rights organization. They even admitted it in their own publication.

    The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable
    gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871.”

    — NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth
    NRA’s American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968, P. 22

    You either have to be wilfully ignorant or living under a rock to see that the NRA is a gun control organization and don’t support your rights.

    • Uh yeah I’m not a fan of cat’s. Allergic to them in my old age. But I never purposely murdered one(even the feral cat who had a kitten under my van. Smelled awful.)Don’t care about NegotiatingRightsAway at all. Or cat’s. Or this “news” article🙄And Dave I’m a Boomer. Your chitty life isn’t my fault. My 50 year son is doing quite well married for 20 years with 3 extremely well behaved daughter’s. Grow up loser.

      • Did every boomer fail to raise the next generation to be functional? No obviously not. Did enough fail to not only be noticable but to be a large problem. Very much seems to be the case. Don’t take it as a personal attack if it doesn’t apply but learn from whether or not it rings true elsewhere. Plenty of similar criticisms of millennials, and zoomers to go around……gen x well they exist I guess 😉

    • dave…When it comes to Defending the Second Amendment The litmus test is who Stands and Definies Gun Control by Its History…And the NRA has done that.

      Unfortunately the drumbeat fell on the ears of wimps who would rather appease gun owning bigots than offend them with a stance against racism, etc. Wimps sure know how to put a pleasing sht grin on the face of the democRat Party…don’t you think? Connect the h…

      h ttps://youtube.com/watch?v=m-l7TO01-Sg&feature=shared

  9. You either have to be wilfully ignorant or living under a rock to not see that gungrabbers, antigunners, and guncontrol freaks hate the NRA above all other opposing groups. It ain’t even close.

    Not a coincidence. They like to pose as ignorant morons, too…

  10. There was A LOT of footage of the usual suspects abusing animals during the BLM riots of 2020. One in particular I remember is a number of gangly looking fellows throwing a Golden Retriever puppy around. The dog was later found stabbed to death.

    It made my blood boil. Consequently, I had and have little sympathy for that movement

    “Diversity” is not known to love animals. Animal welfare has, historically and at present, mainly been an effort by Whites, as has concern for the wider environment. For example, 95+ percent of the plastic garbage the liberal cat ladies complain is choking the ocean actually originates in the Third World, with China, the Philippines, and various nations in Africa the largest sources.

    An inconvenient truth, to be sure. Certainly something that cannot be pointed out in the company of liberal cat ladies who want to ban plastic straws in San Francisco.

    It is also inconvenient to point out that, yes, Haitians do eat cats. If they do it in Haiti, they’re doing it in Ohio. You can take the Haitian out of Haiti, but you can’t take Haiti out of the Haitian.

    America’s dirt is not magic — it does not transform Third World invaders into civilized people just because they step on it.

  11. Rich frat guys do unspeakable things and get away with it.
    Leftist concern troll uses this to go for a scalp.

    “News” so predictable an AI could have written it…

    • Cutting the paws off of a live cat seems like it would be a difficult, painful and noisy process to me. I am thinking the torture was likely postmortem.

      You can count on leftwing media, to include anti-NRA TTAG authors, to ignore that possibility, though.

    • “Rich frat guys do unspeakable things and get away with it”

      Sometimes they grow up to become a republican president.

      • they grow up to be a lying, delusional, daddy-daughter-shower-unatural-sexual-act-fan, child-hair-sniffing, dementia ridden guy called Joe.

        sometimes they grow up to be a tampon distributing abusive guy named Tim Walz who covers up money stolen from autistic children and starving children and wants to complete Joe and Kamals’s dream of a marx – ist soc – ialist tyrannical government ….

        h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYuaOGaxUnU

        “…one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.

        — Tampon Tim Walz 2024”

        • minor49iq..Your time would be better spent calling for the Party that Owns the Legacy of Slavery to cough up Monetary Reparations. After you do that on abc then come back and blow your smoke.

          TRUMP/VANCE 2024.

      • Dearly beloved: Trump went to military school, not a frat-nest ritzy East Coast ivory tower college.

        • “not a frat-nest ritzy East Coast ivory tower college“

          Donald Trump loves the “poorly educated”, they make the best cult members:

          “Aged 13, he entered the New York Military Academy, a private boarding school. In 1964, he enrolled at Fordham University. Two years later, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics“

          Fordham and the University of Pennsylvania are the very definition of “East Coast ivory tower colleges”.

          And why haven’t we seen Donald Trump‘s grades from college? What is he hiding?

            • Hey, it was Donald Trump who first demanded Obama’s, without ever revealing his own grades.

              Trump also pledged to release his taxes, that was nine years ago and he hasn’t shown diddley squat.

              Probably lost in the mail, along with Trump’s “better than Obamacare” health care plan, “Infrastructure Week” plans and that wall-building invoice to Mexico.

              That’s the hypocrisy of the MAGA Republicans.

  12. What we should really be talking about is h!o!mo!se!x!ua!ls grooming and abusing children in public schools. Children are surely more important than cats.

    • johnnyboy…Center X is a serious Content of Character cover-up that will be fully addressed. Covering up the cover-up by finger pointing doesn’t address the problem.

  13. In other news, South Korea is phasing out dog and cat meat with a total ban by 2027.

    Also, who cares about some rando that bought his friends pleading no-contest to something he didn’t do almost 50 years ago? You have two legged animals looking to bomb synagogues, other two legged animals looking to disrupt the election with some form of violence, a large group of two legged animals with no impulse control looking for any excuse to throw a public and fiery “but-mostly-peaceful” tantrum, a terrible non-choice for POTUS, and PR firms using AI to convince us all that everything is fine.

    Put your feminine hygiene napkins in and move past the silly concern troll.

  14. I am astonished by the hostile response. The major issue is that Douglas Hamlin isn’t just some schmuck working a 9-5 job whose past transgressions can and should be ignored. He is perceived to be the representative of gun owners. As such, we don’t need someone who can be portrayed as a sadistic animal abuser in such an influential position.

    I’d also point out that I don’t appreciate people who chastise the NRA as “Fudds.”. I understand the resentment towards hypocritical idiots who are eager to accept prohibitions on modern firearms as long as their politically correct hunting firearms are exempted. However; I chose my on line moniker in protest to the marijuana bootlegging, TactiCoolFool who misrepresented himself as a “gun expert” to provide perjured testimony that my marijuana bootlegging tenant’s politically correct, 12 gauge shotgun that he fired at my son isn’t a deadly weapon. While an AR-15 might be a superior weapon in most situations, the fact remains that a slug or a load of buckshot can be devastating.

    The Los Vegas concert massacre is the deadliest mass shooting in US history. Anyone who has measured the distance from the Mandalay Bay Hotel to the festival grounds then crunched the numbers on the exterior ballistics will confirm that by the time those puny little twenty-two caliber bullets arrived on target, they were ballistically equivalent to Double Ought buckshot at fifty yards. In spite of the velocity and energy loss, those projectiles were damn deadly.

    • I could see circling the wagons to protect this guy if he had been in the position for some time doing a STELLAR job. But he’s the new guy taking over a scandal-ridden organization with a terrible reputation, even among the members! No thanks. At this moment in time, gun owners (NRA member or not) deserve better.

      It doesn’t matter if you’re a member or not. It doesn’t matter if you love or hate the NRA. The NRA still represents gun owners to the general public. They have a long way to go to rehabilitate the NRA name. Of course they’re waiting for any possible opening for an attack. Why should we help them? Is this really the only person in the country that can handle this position? That’s the best the NRA could do?

    • Yep, the equation has already been solved in the court of public opinion:

      ‘He is perceived to be the representative of gun owners = sadistic animal abuser’

  15. All these crocodile tears about a cat from DECADES ago, and not one mention of the 60+ MILLION human babies torn apart and massacred in abortion (or is it reproductive health?) clinics over the past 50 years. My guess is that Jennifer doesn’t give a damn about them, and wants as many of those to continue as possible. Same goes for most or all of the streetwalking moms demanding action.
    The fact that this is the first I’ve heard of this “atrocity” tells me it’s a non-story. They want to try to do to Doug Hamlin what they tried to do to Bret Kavanaugh.

  16. Yeah, just as I started to read this “article” I could tell it was written by a woman, no logic, just emotional nonsense. That’s why women shouldn’t be able to vote, if they didn’t, there would be zero liberals in office and cuck laws on the books. Oh, and I am all for shooting cats that are feral, as well as dogs, or horses, just like wild pigs, otherwise you end up with uncontrollable populations that decimate the natural flora and fauna. Look at Australia. 👌

  18. I hadn’t heard a word about this “incident” until this authors article. Seems she (representing her chosen political affiliation) is pushing the story here to further damage the person highlighted AND the NRA. Yes the cat story was bad but how but how hateful are people to dig up 45 year old expunged misdemeanors? Likewise how does any company, org., or background check Vet a “expunged” (eliminate completly) supposedly nonexistant record. The same hate that digs crap like that up for a single purpose are no different then those who spread it and also push guilt by association. I quit the NRA over 35 years ago so there’s no loyality on my part but surely there is severe animosity from the author. Whether “WE” like it or not: the NRA IS part of us as long as it exists.

    I further recommend author submit this article to the Trace, NPR or Vice where it belongs.

    • I quit the NRA 4 years ago. I still get random calls from some old woman. And I’ve thrown out all the magazines they sent me🙄My $ goes to real 2A defenders!

    • “The same hate that digs crap like that up for a single purpose are no different then those who spread it“

      You mean the MAGA crowd criticizing Kamala Harris over her relationship with Willie Brown 30 years ago?

      Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA Republican.

        • “her didn’t earn it status in positions“

          I’m not sure if that’s actually English, Would you please try again.

          • Said what I said and the way you bitched out about it before the meaning was perfectly clear. Or are you the Temu version of Miner?

      • MajorLiar,

        My first reaction to your comment was “Are you a TOTAL idiot???”, but then I realized who I was responding to, and knew the answer (yes, you ARE a total idiot!).

        I actually don’t give a defecation about Kamal-toe the Ho getting her start in politics by sucking d*ck and spreading her legs – those were the only talents she had. What I object to is that a complete halfwit (and she is probably double your IQ, sad as that is to say), who ONLY got her career in politics as a result of ‘favors given’, purports to be (i) middle class (she isn’t; her parents were both professionals and professors in colleges), (ii) a ‘working person’ (she never had a real job in her entire life), (iii) she is a Leftist/fascist DESPERATELY trying to pretend to be ‘centrist’, and (iv) she is running away from Slow Joe and his record, while having NOT A SINGLE THING that she would change.

        I can respect a ho, as I would any working person, to the extent they are good at what they do. Since Willie Brown was a renowned poon hound, and he chose to promote her, I have to assume she was at least a marginally competent ho, so I give her grudging respect as a competent ho. Now, what EXACTLY qualifies her to be President???? (and NO, I don’t assert that DJT is a qualified to be President, but . . . he’s at least had four years in the office (and seems to have learned some lessons from those years). Is DJT a great candidate?? Oh, HELL NO! But he is so far superior to Kamal-toe the Ho and Tampon Timmy “Stolen Valor” Walz (who can’t even LOAD A FRIGGIN’ SHOTGUN!?!?!?!) are to occupy such a position. No, I am NOT a major Trump fan (as witness my voting record), but . . . unfortunately, these days, it ain’t about “who you want”, it’s about “who is the least despicable” – and Trump wins that comparison, all day, every day. Trump is a loud, obnoxious buffoon . . . but he’s orders of magnitude better than that babbling, incoherent, mentally-deficient cum dumpster who is currently VP.

        Not a complicated decision, for folks who have eyes to see, and are not enslaved to some idiot political theology (I can’t even dignify communism/Leftism as a legitimate political position) – Trump, as flawed as he is (and he IS!), is orders of magnitude better than the cackling ho and her idiot, short-bus, retard of a proposed VP.

        • “ONLY got her career in politics as a result of ‘favors given’,“

          To make such a claim you must have more than rumors and guesswork, so what sound evidence do you have to substantiate your assertion?

          Exactly what favors do you have evidence regarding that led to her winning 2 statewide elections for Attorney General and a statewide election for the Senate?

  19. Lucky Rabbits Foot.
    Used to get them as key chains.
    Never could fathom what made them lucky?
    Perhaps a cat.
    Purrfect

    • “…no logic, just emotional nonsense.”

      A combination that seems to have won-over at least half the population. That somehow seems like a winning proposition. Note: data, stats and logic cannot overcome emotion; we should take notice, and use the tactic against the anti-gun mafia.

    • “Never could fathom what made them lucky?”

      The same principle that made “The Highlander” a popular TV series: Kill an inferior immortal, and add his/her inferior power to ones own, and not dilute ones power.

  20. The Fight to Preserve Your Second Amendment Rights. No Matter Where You Are.

    “Why is it that all of our Constitutional Rights transcend state borders, with the exception of our Second Amendment Rights. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses a very important case, that could have long lasting implications for not only nationwide concealed carry reciprocity, but if the Court should rule the wrong way, would provide State governments, hellbent on disarming its citizens, a basis by which they could uphold just about any sort of civilian disarmament legislation. So learn more about the struggles to free visitors of California in the matter of Matthews v. Los Angeles …”

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbqDA8DY6Gw

    • Even the attorney in the video agrees that “Rahimi” was the way for the SC to quietly overturn its own “Bruen” decision. Not to mention that Scalia, in the majority opinion in “Heller” invented the concept of government “policed powers”, as a limitation on the Second Amendment. He also created the phrase, “reasonable restrictions.” IMHO, Scalia gutted his own ruling, as did the later decision in “Rahimi”, which tacitly endorsed a non-limited insertion of govt “police powers” as a limit on the Constitution, and held that historical analogs of gun control need not be exact, but close enough.

      The 9th will rule that Californication has govt rights superior to the Constitution. My forecast is that the SC will decline to hear the “Matthews” case.

  21. He was punished for this in court, you either believe in the system or not, if you want double jeopardy you don’t want the Constitution and the 2A.

    • The left (including Sensiba) wants eternal jeopardy for their enemies and eternal forgiveness for themselves.

    • “He was punished for this in court, you either believe in the system or not, if you want double jeopardy you don’t want the Constitution and the 2A.”

      Once a criminal, always a criminal. Once convicted, you remain a convicted person. If that isn’t what you want, then keeping released convicts from exercising 2A rights is supportable, under any circumstance.

      BTW, lifetime punishment for a released criminal isn’t “double jepoardy”, but I understand you meaning.

  24. This article is not about abortion nor is it about the particular opinions Jennifer Sensiba may have relative to the issue of abortion or other political views. As I see it this is about cruelty to animals and Mr Hamblin. I have stated several times that I don’t kill anything just to kill it including snakes as is the manner of some. Mother nature takes care of her creatures and ,e.g., when it comes to snakes I merely scare them off or walk around them. One commenter referred to Mr Hamblin as a “dumb kid”. Mr Hamblin and his fraternity brothers were anything but “dumb kids”. Since they were in college and in a fraternity they were 18+ years old. Remember the arguments that 18 year olds were adults and have the mental wherewithal to carry a gun. If they are old enough to be responsible with a gun at 18, it then stands to reason that they are also old enough to have respect for life and that the needless killing of any animal is wrong. These brothers had other options that they chose to ignore and we all know what those other options are. Perhaps Mr Hamblin and his fraternity brothers have realized their error and grown past this experience. This leads to another comment “If Hamblin had any character he would have turned in the perps who by all accounts tortured and killed the cat.” Yes, but none have lived a perfect life.
    This will not be forgotten in less than a year or so as one stated. Just like Wayne LaPierre has not been forgotten neither will Mr Hamblin. Should Mr Hamblin and the fraternity brothers continued to suffer punishment? Of course not. They had their day in court and paid the punishment allowed by the court system at that time. The difference between Mr Hamblin and the fraternity brothers is now Mr Hamblin is in a position of authority in the NRA. This event occurring decades ago reflects poorly on the NRA’s ability to select leaders. The left is going to run with this for a long time just as they are doing with Mr LaPierre. As you know the left lumps all POTG in the same manner, and this decades old incident gives the left more ammo to use against all POTG and therein is the big issue. Should Mr Hamblin resign? I don’t know, but it would speak well of him should he choose to step down.

    • So you’re saying that no one can ever get redemption for something they’ve done in the past? How foolish. If that’s the case, no one could ever achieve anything, as there is barely a person who has not done something stupid at some point in their lives. You yourself say “this event occurring decades ago.” So why is it an issue today? Donald Trump has surely done things in his past that might make some people cringe, but most of us ignore them because we know it doesn’t matter in regards to doing the job we are electing him to.
      Also, if you lived rural and had to deal with invasive or destructive species of animals, I’d bet you would think twice about killing some of them.

      • Note I also said, “Yes, but none have lived a perfect life.” A person may receive redemption and forgiveness, but that does not mean there will not be consequences in the near or distant future. Mr Hamblin is suffering the consequences of his actions or lack there of in this present time.

        • Only because idiots are dredging things up from the past for no reason other than to try to ruin a person.

          • “4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.”

    • “Mother nature takes care of her creatures”

      Death by Mother Nature is usually right at the very top of cruelty chart.

  25. As a lover of cats this story is going to bother me the rest of the day. There is no excuse for wanton senseless cruelty. It speaks volumes about the fitness of a candidate for an organization that represents hunters – that have always prided themselves on the importance of a clean humane kill. Maybe the new technique will be to blow the deer’s legs off so you can bludgeon it with the stock.

  26. The idea that he should be jettisoned for this wouldn’t seem so stupid if we didn’t have decades of experience with leftists ginning up fake outrage against leaders on the right and demanding their heads. Every time we’ve caved to it, there has been no corresponding new respect or acknowledgement from the left. All they learn that this trick of taking scalps on the right via Alinsky methods works.

    And every time people on the right have told the left to take their fake outrage and stuff it, the right wins the confrontation. Imagine if Trump had crawled off in embarrassment after the “they let you grab them by the pussy” comments, because the cowards on the right were saying how terrible and undignified such statements were and he shouldn’t be elected “for the good of the party and the country.”

    Caving to this sort of fake outrage generated by digging up long-ago incidents is like the right’s special stupid blind spot.

  27. When people are involved in these sort of animal cruelty cases execute them. That way there’s no worry about digging up past discretions.

  31. The issue is cruelty , anyone that will do it to a cat will do it to women and children because they inflict themselves upon things that can’t defend themselves. It’s cowardliness at its greatest. Only the weak are cruel, gentleness only comes from the strong.

  32. Some of the fools posting here are too stupid for words. Comparing animal cruelty to aborting human babies is asinine.

    Both are wrong. Period.

    But to hold down a living animal, cut off its feet and then burn it alive is barbaric. I hope the f*cker dies a slow painful death and rots in hell.

  33. Thank you Ms. Sensiba, for stating the obvious. Hamlin should go, and whoever back in the Building failed to vet him for CEO-EVP or worse, knew about the cat mutilation, torture, and killing and passed him through anyway, should be fired. There are many details still being hidden, but we know Hamlin “took responsibility” in a court of law. Would his lawyer have let him do that without a defense if he was not in some way culpable? Could frat president Hamlin have intervened to save BK from his sadistic psychopathic frat brothers? We will apparently never know, and Hamlin did what he could to cover it all up.

    Underage drinking is youthful indiscretion. Capturing a domestic animal who is your responsibility, who depends on you, cutting off its paws, hanging it from a tree, and setting it on fire is not youthful indiscretion. It is disturbingly aberrant behavior, the kind seen in budding serial killers. On this basis alone, Hamlin should either step down immediately or be fired.

    Timothy Wheeler, MD
    (NOTE: I speak for myself and not for Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership)

    • “Would his lawyer have let him do that without a defense if he was not in some way culpable?”

      Absolutely. A no contest + expungment plea to avoid the publicity of trial is almost a cliche.

      • Hamlin pled guilty because he was complicit, in that he tried to cover it up. Not that he actually did it himself. That being ‘complicit’ makes him ‘culpable’ as well. There was no way out of that but to plead guilty because it was obvious he tried to cover it up so his lawyer really didn’t have a choice in him pleading guilty or not because he would have been convicted anyway as there was no defense for his obviously ‘complicit’ actions.

        But yeah, he screwed up and did it. The law penalized him and he ‘paid’ the penalty. So if he is not worth being back in mainstream society, then neither is anyone else who has been convicted of a crime. Yet we see time and time again murders and rapist and violent felons being put back on the streets by left wingers to offend again and again. And suddenly the left wing dredges up this old thing about a cat and its the most horrible thing in the world to them “so lets slam the NRA and say all gun owners are like that”, while ignoring the thousands of (collectively) murderers/human-traffickers/rapists/gang-members/drug-cartel and criminals basically ‘invited’ to illegally enter our country by Harris the border czar having an intentionally open and insecure border making Harris ‘complicit in AND facilitating’ murders/rapes/human-trafficking/drug-distribution/gang-activity/crimes by her ‘invited’ illegal ‘invaders’.

        Don’t get me wrong, Hamlin should not be in the NRA position he is in. But I think the left wing is being more than hypocrites here.

      • But he didn’t escape publicity, did he? It was splattered across the local papers, and now his crime rises from the presumed dead of expungement like a relentless zombie. The point here is that what Hamblin did or was involved in, or whatever it was, was uniquely evil. It was an abomination. There is no coming back from…well, I’m not going to describe it again, it’s just too horrible. Don’t believe me? Read the old news stories. And look at the furor it has raised now for the NRA, as if we needed any more trouble.

  34. Mutilating cats is bad, mmkay, but this is a nonstory that we see dredged up by the usual suspects (there and here) about a settled issue from the Neolithic period. That said, if only it were physically possible to cut the paws off both the NRA and MDA corporate bodies and set them on fire in a tree…

  35. Strangely, this one seems complicated, to me. On the one hand, abusing ANY animal, for ANY reason, is just wrong. There are many ways to humanely euthanize an animal; abuse of the animal is just . . . WRONG. On the other hand, we are all human, and if anyone on this blog wants to step and claim to b e perfect”, I am prepared to laugh, uproariously.

    The dumbshit did something relatively unforgivable (like, for example, murdering a VIABLE baby in utero), but “let him among you who is without sin cast the first stone”. I have various events in my life that I regret, and desperately wish I could get a mulligan on. God will have the final word, and my hope is that he is a forgiving God.

    Forgetting that, the NRA remains a sinkhole for money from POTG, and they accomplish sweet f**k all. Wayne embarrassed the entire 2A community, and now we have this numbnuts. It reinforces my decision to allow my membership to lapse. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson as “The Joke”, “This [organization] needs an enema!”. Getting rid of Wayne the Thief wasn’t enough, apparently. A larger shakeup needs to happen.

  36. Sorry Jen, If we got rid of everyone who did bad things in their youth, or in this issue, not stopping other idiots from doing something, that had I been there would have each been threatened by me with a similar fate, but I wasn’t and I bet he doesn’t do anything like that with his own pets now. Does he?

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