The NRA (see title) was silent for almost a week after the Sandy Hook shootings leading people to believe that maybe this tragedy was so horrific that even the NRA was forced to do some serious soul searching about their stand on gun control. Alas it was only a pipe dream, as on the one week anniversary of the event they released a statement so ludicrous it defies reasonable explanation. Once again side stepping any responsibility for any gun violence despite the fact they have fought every single proposed restriction, They actually called for the federal government to provide security to protect it's citizens from the people they would allow to have guns. Since they oppose limiting access to weapons They should pay for the security at every school in the country. If the can afford to spend millions lobbying Congress every year, they can afford this.
Why stop at schools? Let's have federal armed security at parks, office buildings, grocery stores, movie theaters, sports arenas. Hell lets just put everyone in camps surrounded by barbed wire and machine gun towers then they can really protect us from the NRA.
So they want the federal government to create a police state despite the fact one of their main reasons for needing guns is to prevent the the government from creating a police state? My dog doesn't make that tight of a circle when he licks his own ass. Makes as much sense as anything else they have ever said. Like "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun." Do I have to point out that a lot of these mass shooters kill themselves? Does that make them the 'good guy' too? maybe we should celebrate Lanza for stopping a mad man.
I'm not really anti-gun. I like guns, shooting shit is fun. But considering the damage they can do they shouldn't be so easily obtained. every gun should have a waiting period, background check, a safety class, maybe even a medical / psych exam- I don't think this is too much to ask for. Barring that then every gun, even pistols should be break action single loading like most shotguns, see how many mass shootings we have with those.
You say the second amendment gives you the right to own a gun? I agree, you can have all the muzzle loading muskets you can carry, because that is the type of gun the founding fathers were writing about. If they could have seen what was coming i guarantee they would have written in some qualifiers. No one would advocate selling small nuclear weapons to anyone who wanted them, and why? because of the amount of damage they could do and people they could kill. Once you admit this, You've finally hit a number you find unacceptable; and that is just hypocrisy. And here is something no one will agree with, just because we have the right to something doesn't mean we have to exercise it. maybe it's time to grow up and admit we as a people are not mature or responsible enough to wield that kind of power over one another, an voluntarily give up our guns for the greater good. Yeah, that gave me a chuckle too.
