Posted on 12/20/2012 10:04:57 AM PST by neverdem
Gun control supporters march to the National Rifle Association office in Washington on Monday.
Global outrage over the Newtown massacre, including at the role played by a gun that no civilian should possess, has forced the National Rifle Association to speak publicly, instead of privately in the halls of Congress.
America’s mighty proponent of deadly weaponry here, there and everywhere, including in bars and kindergartens, announced that on Friday, “The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.”
Don’t get your hopes up.
The only “meaningful contributions” the NRA has ever made to public safety have been malignant ones — most notably, the millions of dollars by which the organization buys influence in the House, Senate and state capitals.
In the most recent election cycle, the NRA’s disbursements to candidates totaled more than $18.6 million, and its lobbying expenses in Washington ran to more than $2 million. The group got its money’s worth and wants to keep it, you can rest assured.
Barring the possibility that pigs start flying, look for the NRA to engage in evasions about everything other than guns that may have come into play in murdering 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School — everything from mental health to violent video games.
On Friday, in the immediate aftermath of the killings, the host of an NRA video news program preposterously attributed the deaths to a shortage of love, saying:
“I don’t think the issue is an issue; I don’t think the issue is parenting, or Hollywood, or guns, or rap music, or young men. . . . It is the foundational stuff . . . whether it’s a lack of love, a lack of empathy for others, an apathy.”
Lunacy like that has left the NRA in increasing isolation.
To escape disgrace, Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm whose officers include former Vice President Dan Quayle, is selling its interest in the company that makes the Bushmaster AR-15, Adam Lanza’s weapon of choice.
Dick’s Sporting Goods pulled semiautomatic rifles from its shelves in 511 stores nationwide. Walmart removed the AR-15 from its website. And the movie industry has canceled the premieres of violent films for fear of revolting audiences.
With President Obama signaling that he will back a renewal of an assault weapons ban, a bar on high-capacity ammunition magazine, the institution of more rigorous background checks for gun purchasers and closure of the so-called gun show loophole, the NRA is fighting a rearguard action for the first time in memory.
Now is the time to think even bigger, to get all that and more, in an epic battle to stop mass murders in the U.S.
Good! Wait for a discount and become a life member.
Masthead and meathead editorials are collaborations from the members of their editorial boards. They don’t have bylines.
Read the second line in comment# 21.
Even after the Beslan school massacre of children by Islamists, Democrats parroted John “I Was A Teenaged War Criminal Akin To Ginjuice Conn” Kerry's line that we would have to learn to accept a certain nuisance level of terrorism.
I don’t belong to the NRA, but I fully support the right of law-abiding citizens to own them. I don’t intend to ever fire my gun in anger, but I would if I had to. I firmly believe that every human being has the right to self-defense. That’s why I own a gun.
If we have to hide our guns, let’s hide them. The Constitution is on our side here.
Members of the NRA are not out committing crimes. The organization promotes safety and responsibility. The anti-gun crowd thinks they’re doing something meaningful, but they are not.
Members of the NRA are not out committing crimes.””
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood assists women in having over 900,000 abortions in the past 3 years.
Les than 200 people showed up to protest!!!
A very tough 100 mile long distance horse event over the California Sierra gets more entrants that this crowd!!!
Notice that the author give himself an attached EPA designation.
Who has done more to destroy the American way of life than the EPA???
If one would eliminate tools to end all danger from misuse of those tools; one would have to start with something other than firearms. Motor vehicles, would be a prime example. (Not that it would make sense, but they kill more people--morally, at least, innocent people--than firearms.)
In America, unlike Moscow in November, 1917, or Germany in 1933, we do not change our heritage to humor a mob of banner or sign carriers in the street.
For the basic--relevant argument--on the questions involving an armed citizenry of free men, see Right To Keep & Bear Arms.
William Flax
JIM LO SCALZO/EPA is who gets credit for the photo. EPA could mean the European Photographers Association. I don't know. I do know that this is called a masthead editorial. When it's tripe like this I call them a meathead editorial. It's done by usually 2 or 3 members of their editorial board.
Thanks for the link. Comments on target. Fire for effect.
Thanks! And keep firing!
The gun grabber goons in congress know that the NRA is going to fold; they’re not worried.
Then we get to go through another 10 years of them begging for money to fight the bill in court that they wouldn’t fight in congress.
The NRA wrote the 1968 law!
>> “I look at the picture and see a lot of people that should be at work” <<
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You can bet that 90% of those people in the picture are on the taxpayer dime, using sickleave to protest. Mostly screwel teechurs.
>> “Les than 200 people showed up to protest!!!” <<
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That’ll go down as “Thousands” when reported tomorrow.
The abortuary rate has been over a million per year for decades.
This is all crocodile tears for the slaughtered kids. They could have armed the teachers and prevented it.
***The NRA wrote the 1968 law!***
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29197
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”
“... If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing.
If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country.”
“The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year. “ —Lyndon Johnson
And you're evidence is what?
It was a totally different organization and leadership.
Are they perfect? No, but nothing in this world is perfect. Why do want to denigrate them? Why do you think the rats didn't try to renew the so called "assault weapon" ban in the last Congress before November 2010?
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