I am wondering what Wayne LaPierre and the NRA could have done to look good. I don't think the NRA would look good under any circumstances. I have supported the NRA for probably 50 years and will continue to do so. In my experience the NRA has been demonized forever by anti gun people and organizations as have SUV's and tobacco. I have done some research on gun violence and death by any type of firearm is far less than one percent in America. More people die by drowning than by firearms. Our President says he will do whatever it takes to stop even one more death by firearms. If that is his thinking than we surely ought to take airplanes out of the sky, cars off the road, total ban on smoking in that tobacco will not be permitted to be grown. President Obama went to Newtown, CT for the town goodwill but I don't see him saying a word, not one, about the 500 people who were killed by gunfire in his town of Chicago. Let's remember that Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. Our politicians think that if there is a problem just pass a law. Sorry but that doesn't seem to work.
I apologize for going off on a rant and I feel sadness and pain for any death in America because of any reason, especially gunfire. My own son died of a self inflicted gunshot because of the death of his sister a few years earlier and because he started using drugs. So who or what do I blame, the death of his sister, drugs, guns, society, his school teachers? No. I blame my son. He made the choice to take his life. Believe me, I have been there and done that. Knocking the NRA because of the deaths at Newtown or anywhere else is not the answer. As someone else mentioned what else is there. Without the NRA you can kiss your Parkers and any other guns goodby. Your .243 with a scope will be a demonized sniper rifle.
Dennis
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