HOUSTON, May 4 (UPI) — National Rifle Association members at the group’s national convention in Houston are celebrating legislative victories and taking aim at gun control advocates.
Convention speakers Friday charged President Barack Obama and other Democrats were using the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., to push for tougher gun laws, CNN reported.
Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action characterized Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as opportunists, and said NRA members “want to prevent Newtown, not take advantage of it.”
“While we pray for God to comfort those suffering unimaginable pain,” he said, “they rush to microphones and cameras, gather in war rooms on Capitol Hill and scheme about how to use that suffering to push their political agenda.”
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged Obama had used the “politics of emotion” by having Newtown families appear at political events.
The widow of slain former military sniper Chris Kyle made a surprise appearance at the convention, addressing the death of her husband at a gun range by a Marine reservist who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Implying his death was not cause for more gun restrictions, Taya Kyle said, “we know all too well there will always be evil, but that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to take away evil is by taking advantage of those freedoms.”
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
You may not like guns, and choose not to own one. That is your right. You might not believe in God. That is your choice. However, if someone breaks into your home the first two things you’re going to do are: 1) Call someone with a gun. 2) Pray they get there in time.
@ stupid…..
Please ENLIGHTEN ME…how does a more strict law put in place in lieu of an already existing law/s that don’t get enforced and criminals by pure definition don’t abide by anyway help deter a criminal act? Seriously, I will not name call you on this one…simply put, answer how that makes any sort of sense. Really.
Go ahead…I’m waiting for my simple mind to be blown away by enlightenment by the glory of this logic.
Another question, have you ACTUALLY read the list of guns they put in this ban and secondly do you know anything about those guns? Do you realize a Ruger 10/22 is on that list. I can assure you, that’s an assault weapon if I ever saw one (sarcasm). Did you see the picture the administration put out of Obama shooting a shotgun during one of his many skeet shoot events (more sarcasm)? Here is the epitome of intelligence on that one…in their grand effort to fool the sheeple with their lies of being gun friendly, they failed to realize that the little muzzle break on the end of that very shotgun that Obama is shooting in that picture would put that very shotgun on the ban list for being…guess what….here it comes…..AN ASSAULT WEAPON. All I have to say is….HERE’S YOUR SIGN.
Hmm, makes you kinda wonder about Obama’s “common sense” he’s always preaching about.
If you’re going to lie…at least be good at it.
Remember guns don’t kill people, little kids do.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/florida-3-year-old-fatally-shoots-self_n_3237898.html
Plus, murder by gun is down 39% from 1993 until 2011. Overall gun violence is down 69% during that time. People think gun violence has risen, but that is NOT true!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GUN_VIOLENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-07-19-27-18
How typical. If you don’t have a valid reply, start throwing accusations around. Attack the person who brought facts to the debate. It proves over and over and over how uneducated and unteachable some of you are. I actually sort of pity Maybe, because I think he’s genuinely frightened, and those who have nothing but infantile remarks are to blame.
LVStd, you are truly one of the worst human beings I have ever encountered. And that’s saying something.
If you would assure me that you would understand the answer then I would proceed to enlighten you, but this situation would only serve as a podium for you to further embarace yourself. Spend your time educating yourself in a classroom setting. Not this public forum.
Please enlighten me. How are tougher gun laws and restrictions equal to disarming the public? How does banning one certain type weapon make the other 5 zillion types less shooty? What are you people so afraid of?
DO NOT use any of the crazy people talk like “hitler”, “government dictatorship” or any of the other nutty stuff that’s out there.
Tell me in common sense, Iowan to Iowan words. Why can’t they ban some of the more dangerous weapons and have stronger laws? Why?
Typical democrats, if you can’t win by common sense, win by instilling fear or extortion. Wouldn’t that make them the mafia or organized crime?
The government should be pushing for an anti-bullying movement and mental health evaluations and care centers instead of gun control. All the gun violence is strictly helping The Left’s agenda of disarming the public, Step 1. The more gun violence there is, the more it helps their agenda. The Left’s violent movies and video games have helped set this scenario up and they make sure it continues by shouting “Freedom of Speech”. They are making sure that the First Amendment will take down the Second Amendment. If the liberal writers, producers, directors, and actors in Hollywood really gave a damn about violence, they would stop producing movies, TV shows, and video games that promote violence and give impressionable people ideas about how to get revenge for every perceived slight in their lives. They would go back to movies about heroes, love, overcoming struggles, and themes with positive messages that would still sell and make them money. But that would not advance their agenda of disarming America. Let’s put the blame where it really lies, not on a piece of metal, whether it be a knife or a gun.
Who would have thought that this government would do something that, just to make more laws that infringe on our freedoms.