Congress always solves the wrong problem - no
surprise there
NRA's same simple message to the GOP
(More guns to stop more bad guys with guns)
NRA chief Wayne LaPierre at
CPAC conference pushed the same agenda on school security as Trump did – as he
claimed schools were “wide open targets, adding evil walks among us and God
help us if we don’t protect our schools. Schools must be the most hardened
targets in this country, and evil must be confronted with all necessary force
to protect our kids.”
LaPierre CPAC address here from PBS NewsHour:
Meanwhile at the White House: Trump doubled down on his proposal to address school
shootings by giving some teachers guns on Thursday, tweeting that it would be a
“great deterrent” to killers (also refer to notes 5 - 10 below):
“What many people don’t
understand, or don’t want to understand, is that Wayne, Chris Cox and the folks
who work so hard at the @NRA are Great People and Great American Patriots. They
love our Country and will do the right thing. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Related from Trump then more from LaPierre:
1. President Trump tweeted
Thursday that the heads and members of the NRA are “Great People and Great
American Patriots”
2. Trump said the NRA would “do
the right thing”
3. The powerful gun lobby has
vigorously opposed gun controls in the past
NRA has yet commented on Trump banning “bump stocks”
4. FYI: The NRA spent $31
million to back Trump and oppose Hillary Clinton in 2016
5. Trump's proposed at White
House event to arm teachers
6. The next day Trump tweeted “never
said I wanted to give teachers guns”
7. Trump floated the concealed
carry proposal hosting grieving students and parents from the FL school
shooting at the White House
8. Trump said teachers with guns
would be a “GREAT DETERRENT” to shooters
9. Trump said if teachers were
armed “ATTACKS WOULD END”
10. Trump said teachers with
guns would confront a “savage sicko”
Wow – what load – load of BS
mostly. Now back to CPAC & NRA nutty CEO:
LaPierre in his speech above emphasized that the
NRA had helped build the current background check system but also said “We all
have to be careful that this doesn’t become a runaway train. What if all of
your medical records ... do we really want all that on a government list, in a
government database? I even heard a TV pundit suggest that people seeking to
buy a firearm should be interviewed first. Who’s going to conduct that
interview and what will they ask? This growing socialist state
dreams of manipulating schoolchildren to squeeze them for information about
their parents asking: do mommy and daddy own a gun? And all of this private
information will be entered on to that ultimate list, that cloud of data
storage ... and then it’s just a short hop to the systematic destruction of our
basic freedoms in this country. If these so-called European socialists take
over the House and the Senate and god forbid they win the White House again our
American freedoms will be lost forever, and the first to go will be the second
amendment to the US constitution.”
He then he ended his speech
by repeating the notorious mantra he had issued after the Sandy Hook shooting
in 2012:
“To stop a bad guy with a gun
it takes a good guy with a gun.”
My conclusion: La Pierre has one focus and only one focus: More guns
and the more the merrier at any cost or outcome, period. A very sick narrow
view of life.
We have a long way to go on this issue and have for years and yet the
deaths rise and so do gun sales – that does not speak well for us as a contemporary
people.
A long fight lies ahead and well, as we wait for the next school or
other mass shooting …
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