It was initially billed as a bombshell.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that the state is seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association in a lawsuit that accuses the leadership of the flagging nonprofit of diverting millions of dollars for their own personal use. According to the suit, the senior leadership of the NRA squandered millions in donations on personal trips, private jets and expensive meals. The suit argues that the four executives, including CEO Wayne LaPierre, shouldn’t be permitted to ever again serve on the board of a New York charity.
— CNBC, 8/6/20

Now, while the political world stood aghast and others gleefully applauded, do they realize the can-of-worms James may have opened?

While the National Rifle Association has had questionable methods, echoed most recently by former NRA president Oliver North, leadership squandering “millions in donations on personal trips, private jets and expensive meals” is not exclusive to this one activist nonprofit. In fact, the very nature of the nonprofit invites abuse.

Most successful businesses have clear missions that must be met. Burger King wants to sell the most hamburgers possible; Ford the most vehicles, etc. But if you look at the average nonprofit mission statement, they’re kept as vague as possible (“save the planet”, “help children”) as actually accomplishing said goal would eliminate the need for that nonprofit.

No successful business spends 60-80% of their sales income on salaries and benefits for their staff. No business could survive with such a top-heavy business model.

In 2015, then-Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared on national television that the state was the first in the nation to “functionally end” veteran homelessness. As a veteran, I was personally insulted by the clear sophistry of his statement and have monitored the activities of the Veterans Administration AND the thousands of nonprofits in the United States with the word “veteran” on their title since. If the American people took the time to look at the IRS Form 990 of some of these veteran nonprofits, they’d see a startling consistency.

Almost two-thirds of their donations go to staff salaries and benefits.

What’s also a constant is the very generous pay the principals give themselves. Whether we’re talking the American Civil Liberties Union or Tea Party Patriots, you’ll see executive directors paying themselves very well off the donations they constantly ask for.

But what works against these executives is their unbridled arrogance and narcissism. All one need do is look up the name of the head of any nonprofit and then check out their Facebook page. While some of the pictures they upload are of galas and other events with their volunteers, you may also get a good look at their nice home, vacation pics on picturesque beaches, golf courses surrounded by palm trees, or their menu choices at nice restaurants in foreign countries.

So, if the left wants to get all bent over the lavish spending by the NRA, then we should look at ALL nonprofits and how much donor monies are squandered on opulent salaries for their principals. Will Leticia James devote the necessary manpower to find out how many millions of donor money the Southern Poverty Law Center is hiding in the Cayman Islands?

If she won’t go there but pick on the NRA, you know her lawsuit is not about diverting donations for personal use because if it was, she’d have more nonprofits in her cross-hairs than she’d know what to do with.

Pushing back against critics who say it’s too soon to contemplate gun control laws after the May 31 mass shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center that killed 12 people and injured several others, Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday morning that he will call a special session of the Virginia legislature. His goal is to enact what he called “common sense public safety laws” this summer.
— Patch, 6/4/19

This is the consistent political reaction when it comes to white victims of gun violence.

Colorado school shooting prompts Dem presidential hopefuls to call for gun reform
In Wake of Synagogue Shooting, Pittsburgh Mayor Calls for Gun Control
Congressman calls for gun control in wake of Waffle House shooting
Tech execs call for gun control after YouTube shooting
Democrats quickly call for tighter gun laws after Las Vegas shooting massacre
Hours after Thousand Oaks shooting, Newsom calls for more gun control
Responding to Texas church shooting, U.S. bishops renew call for gun control
Teenagers Pour Into the Streets Calling for Gun Control After Parkland Shooting
After Newtown shooting, President Obama calls for gun control

And that’s only a quick sample, however….

At least 52 people were shot and 10 killed in Chicago’s most violent weekend so far this year, leading police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday to declare the uptick a “despicable level of violence.”

The bloody weekend eclipses the Memorial Day holiday weekend, when at least 33 people were wounded and seven killed, NBC Chicago reported.
— NBC News, 6/3/19

Now, can you imagine the outrage if THAT story made national news and instead of happening in an impoverished part of Chicago, this happened on the Upper East Side, Beverly Hills, The Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, La Jolla, Sea Cliff, etc.

More than 100 people were shot in Chicago over the course of one of the bloodiest Fourth of July weekends in the city’s recent history.
— TIME, 7/6/17

We all know the rapid-response, political posturing had such happened in any suburban white neighborhood. We’d see Jussie Smollett-type dragnets round-the-clock for those who committed the violence and there would be highly publicized arrests; not the number of the unsolved the West Side and South Side districts of Chicago have accepted as the norm.

At least 11 people were shot and killed and about 70 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago, in a spasm of gun violence that police attributed mostly to gangs and that the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, used to criticize the city’s Democratic leadership.
— PBS, 8/6/18

This, too, exposes the long-standing fallacy that Democrats are still “the white man’s party” and no horrendous number of black deaths (on the street or in the womb) will make them take any action to help those in the most violent neighborhoods defend themselves.

The Chicago Police Department recorded that at least 74 people were shot in the country’s third-largest city, with 28 of those shootings occurring between Friday evening and Sunday morning.
— Newsweek, 5/6/18

Meanwhile, the Democrat Party continues to show us whose lives they really value and whose they really don’t.

Texas church mass shooting leads to calls for prayer — and gun control
It’s Not Too Soon to Debate Gun Control
Lax Texas Gun Laws, the NRA and Another Horrendous Deadly Mass Shooting
Murphy: ‘No one is safe’ until Congress acts on gun violence

While it literally took minutes for the left to politicize the Sutherland Springs shooting, they were also the first to demand we NOT publicize the New York City truck attack due to the profile of the perpetrator.

NY officials decry politicization of terror attack
Is Trump politicizing the New York City terror attack?
Schumer Blasts Trump For Politicizing NYC Terror Attack: “Where Is Your Leadership?”

There was a particular posting from October 4th that came across the radar that peaked attention because despite the carnage that happens daily in Democrat, gun-controlled meccas like Chicago (which mainly involves politically insignificant black people), the BBC highlighted the fact that most “mass” shootings are mostly carried out by “white” men.

BTW — As of October 31, there were 569 deaths in Chicago; a death toll mostly involving black-on-black violence Democrats and their media ignore, as the symptoms leading to inner city crime is intentional neglect that can be used for vapid reelection themes and liberal nonprofit and government services growth.

Since 9/11, approximately 110 people have been killed and 495 wounded in the United States by a group not-white and suspiciously omitted by the BCC list with numbers said to be obtained by the FBI and Mother Jones.

Anyone want to take a guess at what that group is?

Muslims have carried out horrific attacks all over the world in concert venues, restaurants, media offices, on the streets, and we NEVER hear Democrats call them out, demanding gun, knife, hatchet, machete, or vehicle control. Instead, attacks are lamented, reasons are found to excuse the motives of the attacker, and they lay blame at anything else, like online recruitment, instead of religion-fueled murderous hate.

Liberal Democrats want to take away the guns of law-abiding Americans and veterans (with PTSD for starters), highlighting the race and possible political beliefs of the shooter (providing he isn’t a Bernie supporter) is fair game, but whenever a Muslim commits mass carnage, Americans are reminded who the real victims are….

While “backlash” against Muslims after an attack is something yet to be enumerated, aside from the hysterics coming from Council on American-Islamic Relations or the Southern Poverty Law Center, the major contribution of Muslims on our society since our 9/11 awareness has been increased screening inconvenience at airports, ugly barriers on streets and on sidewalks, not to mention the “special treatment” instead of the equal treatment they demand.

The assertion that gun violence is a “white male” problem is misleading at best, a blatant political lie at worst. Deliberately omitting the statistics of those suffering from gun violence in poor Democrat districts as well as those they consider a protected minority is what we’ve unfortunately come to expect from the media, both in the United States and abroad.