Dec 21, 2012 Statement from Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chair and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: “The NRA’s Washington leadership has long been out of step with its members, and never has that been so apparent as this morning. Their press conference was a shameful evasion of the crisis facing our country. Instead […]
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Has anyone stopped to consider the great irony to the NRA’s response today to the Newport shooting? Try this on for a second: One of the primary arguments floating around today among gun enthusiasts to justify the ever increasing number of firearms by private citizens is that they need to “bear arms “to fend off “governmental […]
“This is my NRA club card. I want to show you my tribute and how outraged I am at the loss of life in Newtown, CT. This is what I’m gonna do to this card. [Pulls out a pair of scissors and cuts his NRA membership card into pieces] That’s it,” [shuts off the camera]. CNN, […]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association executive vice president, blamed everyone in America except gun owners for creating a culture of violence, in a lengthy statement to the press one week after the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a school in […]