After just over four days, the terrorist-enabling NRA con-men have decided to finally break their complete silence following last Friday’s mass shooting which killed 20 children and 7 adults in Newtown, CT. The killer used assault weapons and high-capacity magazines the NRA had long fought to make available to just about anybody.
In a terse statement released this afternoon, the group’s leadership claim they are “prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.”
While their claim is welcome, it remains to be seen if a) they actually mean it and b) if they will actually call for gun safety policies supported by the vast majority of their membership, or if they will continue serving only as mouth-pieces for the U.S. arms industry.
The statement notes the group will hold a news conference this Friday, December 21 — the Friday before Christmas — which Washington Post’s Greg Sargent aptly describes as “the ultimate Friday news dump.”
Here’s their complete statement today…
UPDATE 12/21/12: The NRA held it’s “major news conference” today, announcing their “major contributions”. It didn’t go well…
So… major news conference. NRA supports mental health treatment. But keep buyin’ them guns to protect yerself!
Will Charles and David Koch, ALEC, and the Waltons also be making appearances, or will they continue to hide behind their dirty money and hope nobody notices what they’ve done behind the scenes?
Oh yeah Patriot, I trust them like I trust a mentally ill person with an AK47,cuz that’s who put it in their hands.
NEWTOWN
“We’re buying back all auto and semi-auto weapons and replacing them with muskets, as the founders intended.”
How’s about them apples?
Pictures should be taken each time this carnage happens and be required viewing for each member of the house and senate. Maybe something would be done. There is absolutly no sane reason that people need assault rifles and large capacity clips. It woud not stop this kind of act from happening, but it would slow the amount of killing. Innocent life doesn’t matter to the head of the NRA and to many of their members. If it did they would get out of the NRA.
The NRA is hardly a mouthpiece for gun manufacturers. They are a mouthpiece for the millions of Americans who wish to continue to be able to hunt for food; to defend themselves against criminals and trespassers; to ensure their liberty against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and to protect against the tyranny of government.
TomBrooklyn,
What part of violent domination do YOU still support?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/r...b_2338553.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/...86O02O20120725
http://www.drudge.com/news/1639...rt-gun-control
Could it be the one that doesn’t trust your own government? The only way to undo that one is by peaceful demonstration of all of us together…FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN.
That should have been “violence domination.”