WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association broke its silence Tuesday on the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting massacre in which a young man killed 27 people, 20 of them children slaughtered in their classrooms.
In a statement sent to reporters Tuesday afternoon, the nation’s largest gun-rights lobbying organization said it was “prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.”
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Demand Safer Guns!!! Solve the Gun Problem with what we Americans do best, Science and Money.. Haptic technology can be developed such that a trigger will only work for one registered sane person. Also bullets can be made with an on/off switch. Like the 10 cent devices put in clothes that set off an alarm as they go out the door.. bullets could be shut off as they enter a school,movie theater,shopping mall or playground. The technology is available, as a sane country lets develop it,all it will take is MONEY. I need and insurance policy to drive each car and motorcycle i have,require an annual insurance policy for every gun owned. The box of 233 bullets cost less than a box of candy, 70 cents for each dead child last week. Lets tax each bullet to pay for development of a safer gun and gun use. Just as it took a generation to change the culture of tobacco, it will take that long with guns. But those 20 6 year old kids desired better. Let Us start now...
The NRA is a evil organization. It's all about equipping people to kill other people.
I expect that their "meaningful contributions" will have little or nothing to do with limitations on weapons. It will be some kind of sideshow to head off laws for meaningful gun control.
It's a beginning, and that is something to treasure right now. It may be difficult to forge an agreement, but it's impossible without a start. I look forward to hearing from the NRA on this issue, which affects us all. My thoughts are with the children and families of Newtown, as I suspect is true with all Americans.
Really? THIS?....This slaughter, is "something to treasure right now" ?? Yes, never let a good crisis go to waste.
The Pentagon has killed more innocent people in the past dozen years than a thousand gunmen here in the US ever could. Our president maintains a "kill" list, holds people indefinitely without charges, spies on nearly everybody, and uses robotic aircraft to bomb grass-roofed huts without even being certain who is inside. The federal government has bought millions of dollars worth of paramilitary gear, garb, and weapons for this nation's police forces, greatly militarizing the latter as well. On military spending, we outspend the next 14 nations combined. *THIS* is the government people are supposed to hand their guns over to because the *people* have been bad with guns? Really?!
I don't own any guns myself, but if ever there is to be gun control, it ought to start at the Pentagon, the Capital Building, and The White House.
Just for the record, there have now been over 115,000 civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, in case anybody doubted my math: 115,000 > 26 * 1000 They can't all be terrorists.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/