Nothing like a few shootings to draw attention to your campaign.

How does GOP lure supporters? By giving away lethal weapons. (Click here to read more)

The New York Times:
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    Online gun sweepstakes have become one of the most useful tools for campaign outreach in the 2014 Republican primaries. Across the country, from a race for sheriff in California to the United States Senate primary in South Carolina, candidates are using high-powered pistols and rifles as a lure to build up their donor lists and expand their base of support.
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    The method may be new, but the concept is actually a durable campaign device. Take a group of possible supporters who are highly motivated around an issue, in this case gun ownership and Second Amendment rights, and pique their interest with good marketing. Then, once you have their attention, solicit their personal information and follow up to ask for support and money. [...]

    [The NRA] employs a range of online campaigns, including Facebook-based contests that provide the organization not just with people's names, but also with their information-rich public profiles and lists of their friends. Millions of people have entered these contests, the group said.
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Zac Moffatt, who oversaw Mitt Romney's digital strategy in 2012 and founded a firm that develops online campaigns, notes that dangling lethal weapons in front of gun fondling voters "could get you a couple extra thousand votes you didn't otherwise know about."
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How "pro-life" can you get?

And speaking of hypocrisy, in order to qualify for a chance to win a killing machine, you have to pass a-- wait for it-- background check. But... but... gun zealots hate those pesky background checks! What gives?
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Says Lee Bright, a state senator from South Carolina who is primarying GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, "You definitely don't want [a weapon did not fall into the wrong hands]... Not in the middle of the campaign."