12-23-2012, 08:04 PM
The NRA waited a week before making public statements about the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings.
Mr. LaPierre spoke out today in follow up to brief statements made on Friday. He does not believe that new gun restrictions will solve any problems and instead is pushing for arming schools (which he claims the NRA will help to staff/fund) and focusing on the major problem of getting states to enter names of "lunatics" into the NICS database. He believes that the media machine fuels the public to focus on the guns (tools) instead of the criminals.
Mr. LaPierre stated today that he is no longer willing to sit on a legislative panel to address gun control and violence if imposing new gun restrictions will be its only goal.
With Obama calling for proposals in January, I'd bet my ass that LaPierre and his colleagues in the NRA are working overtime this holiday in developing lobbying strategies and contacting key congressional Republican allies and congressional NRA members (especially those who are direct beneficiaries of NRA political donations). JMO.
Good short read here; it's getting very very very heated.
http://news.msn.com/politics/nra-public-...ery-school
Mr. LaPierre spoke out today in follow up to brief statements made on Friday. He does not believe that new gun restrictions will solve any problems and instead is pushing for arming schools (which he claims the NRA will help to staff/fund) and focusing on the major problem of getting states to enter names of "lunatics" into the NICS database. He believes that the media machine fuels the public to focus on the guns (tools) instead of the criminals.
Mr. LaPierre stated today that he is no longer willing to sit on a legislative panel to address gun control and violence if imposing new gun restrictions will be its only goal.
With Obama calling for proposals in January, I'd bet my ass that LaPierre and his colleagues in the NRA are working overtime this holiday in developing lobbying strategies and contacting key congressional Republican allies and congressional NRA members (especially those who are direct beneficiaries of NRA political donations). JMO.
Good short read here; it's getting very very very heated.
http://news.msn.com/politics/nra-public-...ery-school