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National Rifle Association (NRA) board member Charles Cotton tried to explain his attempt to blame South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney (D) for his own death which he has since deleted, the Washington Post reported.
It was a discussion we were having about so called gun-free zones, Cotton said. Its my opinion that there should not be any gun-free zones in schools or churches or anywhere else. If we look at mass shootings that occur, most happen in gun-free zones.
Cotton has come under criticism since attributing the deaths of Pinckney and eight other people to his opposition to a bill that would have allowed guns to be brought into churches, restaurants and daycare centers in a post on the Texas Concealed Handgun License (TexasCHL) forum on Thursday.. The nine victims were shot and killed during a terrorist attack inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
He voted against concealed-carry, Cotton said of Pinckney, who was the churchs head pastor. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/nra-official-i-was-speaking-as-a-private-citizen-when-i-blamed-clementa-pinckney-for-his-own-death/
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Whew!
aikoaiko
(34,177 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That is all.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)I'm not completely up on SC African-American names, but Clementa sounds like a woman's name to me.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)jmowreader
(50,561 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You are a loathsome and cruel individual desperately scrabbling to retrieve some tendril of humanity. You will not succeed. Your employer is similarly loathsome and cruel, dedicated to the violent deaths of American citizens all over the country. But since your employer is not a human being, it has no humanity to try to claw back.
At this point, you would be well advised to shut up more.
Warpy
(111,302 posts)which is all he does when he opens his yap to a microphone.
The NRA should be disbanded as a terrorist organization.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)What a great headline that would be.
GP6971
(31,189 posts)Can't speak privately. He's a coward.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)as a "private citizen", he's as stupid as he is vile.
spanone
(135,855 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I'm going to guess that had they had open carry in churches, none of them still would have been packing heat, and the end result would have been identical.
msongs
(67,430 posts)missed this small point
daleanime
(17,796 posts)to do.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)You're a Grade-A #1 pure unadulterated scumbag on and off the gun humper reservation.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)scum.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The difference being that regular sewage can be treated and cleaned.