Mrs.PatsFanInVa

What the hell was that all about? "Meaningful dialogue," my butt.

That NRA "press conference," where they refused to take questions and instead spoke for 20 minutes about how the answer to bad guys with guns is good guys with guns was nothing short of a 20 minute commercial for the NRA.

Their answer to us, the people, 62% of whom have agreed that there needs to be a ban on assault weapons and tighter prerequistes to gun ownership, was to support a national data base of mentally ill people, get rid of video games and arm school personnel and build bullet proof schools.

Poll: Majority support assault weapons ban - The Hill's Ballot Box

PR, in particular, how do you feel about Wayne Lapierre calling for armed police or security guards in each and every school? How do you feel about this being the NRAs only response to the escalating gun violence in our schools?

Personally, I think Mr. Lapierre was so out of touch with what the majority of American people wanted to hear that he just handed the gun control groups a giant Christmas present.

DarrylS

Here is the right wing whackos on the Board of Directors If you want to know how they operate...

Lots of familiar whacko righties here..

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IllegalContact

not suprised by the NRA's stance....they're a bunch of whack jobs

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Nikolai

Maybe they should leave 2A advocacy to the grown ups...

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“On a day when they could have had impact players David Terrell or Koren Robinson..they took Georgia defensive tackle Richard Seymour, who had 1 sacks last season in the pass-happy SEC and is too tall to play tackle at 6-6 and too slow to play defensive end. This genius move was followed by trading out of a spot where they could have gotten the last decent receiver in Robert Ferguson and settled for tackle Matt Light, who will not help any time soon.”

PatsWSB47

I doubt his mental health, hollywood and video games talk was anything more than a deflection. I wonder if he has any clue how phony his proposal looked? He is like a dictator who's underlings tell him everything he wants to hear. He's completely out of touch with the mood of the nation after this tragedy.

I do agree we need a comprehensive approach that includes some of his proposal but he needs to understand that some gun restrictions are necessary. That said any talk of banning all guns is absolutely the wrong thing to be pushing. That kind of talk is just as crazy as having armed guards in every single school and gives the NRA a talking point to go of on a atngent with.

Nikolai

100% agree. Putting aside the constitutional arguments, just the notion has put more guns, ammunition, and accessories into circulation in the last week than in the last three months combined.

In any event, they're idiots. Whatever they really think, they've done a bang-up job of showing that they care more about the guns than they do the victims.

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“On a day when they could have had impact players David Terrell or Koren Robinson..they took Georgia defensive tackle Richard Seymour, who had 1 sacks last season in the pass-happy SEC and is too tall to play tackle at 6-6 and too slow to play defensive end. This genius move was followed by trading out of a spot where they could have gotten the last decent receiver in Robert Ferguson and settled for tackle Matt Light, who will not help any time soon.”

DarrylS

For those of you wondering where Code Pink has been..

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PatsWSB47

Unfortunately, Code Pink is feeding right into the NRA's hands. I know they mean well but I think they come across as a little nuts to a lot of people. The NRA may use this to try and portray anyone that is critical of them as Code Pink types and therefore cannot be taken seriously

Nikolai

Pretty close to what I was going to say. If the NRA is one side of the moron-advocate coin, then Code Pink is the other. There's a reason they frequently occupy the same playing field.

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“On a day when they could have had impact players David Terrell or Koren Robinson..they took Georgia defensive tackle Richard Seymour, who had 1 sacks last season in the pass-happy SEC and is too tall to play tackle at 6-6 and too slow to play defensive end. This genius move was followed by trading out of a spot where they could have gotten the last decent receiver in Robert Ferguson and settled for tackle Matt Light, who will not help any time soon.”

PatsFanLisa

I don't think anyone is calling for a complete ban of guns, as someone here mentioned. The call is for high-powered automatic assault weapons. There is no need for anyone in this country, other than military personnel and police, to privately own such a weapon.

The reality is that they do, and there's never going to be a way to get them to give them up.

And the other reality is that the NRA is nothing more than a whore for the gun manufacturers, bought and paid for. The refusal to answer questions or compromise is typical of conservatives who like to blame everything on progressive liberals.

Now, the fact that to arm every school in this country with a police officer eight hours a day, 180 days a year, would cost well in excess of $3 BILLION DOLLARS, when we can't even get Boehner to budge one inch on a compromise to tax the ultra wealthy, perhaps we should just charge them to put police in schools.

That's sarcasm, people. But with truth underlying it.

LaPierre is a parrot. It took a week for him to come out with a useless statement that offered no significant suggestion, advice, or compromise, and in which he was incapable of answering a question.