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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA blames Charleston victims as the mass shooting reaction pattern repeats
Once again, the NRA make the onion look like real news......
Reactions to mass shootings in the United States admit little variation. Gun control groups diagnose an epidemic, the president declares a crisis and gun advocates prescribe more guns.
After nine people were killed Wednesday inside a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, that pattern has largely held with the glaring exception of one extraordinary comment by a board member of the National Rifle Association, who suggested that worshippers who died in their own church might be alive if they had been carrying guns themselves.
The NRA, the largest and most powerful gun advocacy group in the world, typically mutes itself after mass shootings, and demands that others follow suit out of respect for the dead. The groups social-media accounts, normally used to promulgate weapons enthusiasm, fall silent.
On Friday, an NRA spokesperson hewed to that strategy, saying that the group would have no comment until all the facts are known.
We are praying for the victims and their families and, given the tragic loss, we dont think this is the time for a political debate, spokesperson Jennifer Baker told the Guardian.
Board member Charles Cotton, however, strayed from the script late on Thursday, when he posted a comment online blaming the pastor killed in the South Carolina shooting, Clementa Pinckney, for the death of his eight congregants.
After nine people were killed Wednesday inside a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, that pattern has largely held with the glaring exception of one extraordinary comment by a board member of the National Rifle Association, who suggested that worshippers who died in their own church might be alive if they had been carrying guns themselves.
The NRA, the largest and most powerful gun advocacy group in the world, typically mutes itself after mass shootings, and demands that others follow suit out of respect for the dead. The groups social-media accounts, normally used to promulgate weapons enthusiasm, fall silent.
On Friday, an NRA spokesperson hewed to that strategy, saying that the group would have no comment until all the facts are known.
We are praying for the victims and their families and, given the tragic loss, we dont think this is the time for a political debate, spokesperson Jennifer Baker told the Guardian.
Board member Charles Cotton, however, strayed from the script late on Thursday, when he posted a comment online blaming the pastor killed in the South Carolina shooting, Clementa Pinckney, for the death of his eight congregants.
more at: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/19/nra-mass-shootings-south-carolina-church
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NRA blames Charleston victims as the mass shooting reaction pattern repeats (Original Post)
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Jun 2015
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)1. This is what front men say for the arms manufacturer..anything. n/t
beevul
(12,194 posts)2. Wait just a minute.
"Gun owners all have blood on their hands." We've been told that repeatedly over the last couple days, and many many times previously. Gun owners in general are, at the very least, 1 step farther removed from the shooting, than Clementa Pinckney was. I see gun owners as being more than 1 step farther removed, personally.
How can gun owners who are as a group much farther removed from this, all have blood on their hands, if the victim who it is being claimed is being blamed, does not?
Until that question is answered, I just can't buy into the (selective) outrage.