Her article was written days after the Sandy Hook school shootings (28 people/children gunned down).
I think that regardless of your personal opinions on gun control, it is a perfect time to discuss such things, directly after a massive tragedy like that.
Lets be subjective here, nothing was REALLY done after columbine to prevent or lessen the odds of mass murders, and the NRA has done more to prevent gun safety in this nation than any other organization could possibly have hoped to achieve (maximum 24 hour background check retention period, writing gun control regulation to be ineffective by design, direct control of ATF budget and intentional manipulation of ability to conduct regulatory inspections of gun retailers/inventory).
But, it's nothing that $28.9 million dollars couldn't sort out last year (NRA's political activism and palm-greasing budget).
And i'm a die-hard gun proponent who believes very strongly in having a well organized militia with citizens armed for the safety of our nation. But what the NRA does/represents is pretty much the exact opposite of gun safety.
Full disclosure: I'm a compliance auditor by trade. I've developed, implemented, and penned effective internal controls, budgets and regulations for federally funded organizations. What the NRA has penned and developed is about as effective as putting meth into rehab rooms for meth heads. That it hasn't worked should come as a surprise to nobody.
When you have a country that lets garbage like Hillary Clinton run for president and she spews anti gun rhetoric, you need something like the NRA in place!
Find out what the percentage is on gun violence by law abiding citizens as opposed to unlawful and then have a conversation about that!
Then, find out how many of the law abiding cases involved some form of drugs, and then we can converse about that!
The true culprit in gun violence is #1- stupid rejects feeling godly because they have a gun and think they need to prove a point and #2- the pharmaceutical companies and the garbage they inject in people!
These are the true causes!
Another example,, so I took my car and decided to run over 20 people at a baseball game. Many died and others are permanently handicapped! The detectives come to figure out what happened and they say,,,,"if the operator of the motor vehicle was running 195 60/15 tires as opposed to 235 75/15 there would be a high probability that there wouldn't of been so many deaths in the "accident"!
So let's all go to the tire companies and see if we could get them to make a tire that wouldn't kill so many people! Also, lets take a look at the vehicle and figure out why its so heavy! Because we all know if it was lighter, there wouldn't of been so many deaths in that "accident"!
Also, we should figure out why the automotive industry hasn't installed the device that doesn't allow a vehicle to run human beings over!
But don't worry about what type of drugs the operator of the vehicle was taking,,,,,, no way that could be a problem, right???
Nobody is taking my guns away from ME! The day they knock on my door and say hand them over,,, I say as long as you will be held responsible for any deaths that occur due to gun violence then they can have them, but they will be held responsible!
This is America, I don't tell you what is right and wrong, don't tell me!
Eli
Locked and loaded,,,, always!!!
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