NRA Board Member Blames Murdered Reverend For Death Of His Congregants In S.C. Church Mass Shooting
Source: Media Matters
National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton wrote that the victims of a mass shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church died because of Reverend Clementa Pinckney's advocacy for gun safety laws.
Pinckney, along with eight others, was killed by a gunman during a June 17 attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 2013, Pinckney, who was also a South Carolina State Senator, introduced legislation to require more comprehensive background checks on gun sales and supported several other gun safety measures during his career as a legislator.
In a post on an online forum for Texas supporters of the concealed carry of handguns, Cotton wrote, "he [Rev. Pinckney] voted against concealed-carry. 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."
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BronxBoy
(2,286 posts)BainsBane
(53,038 posts)Guess they can't stick to their own talking points.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I'm a RKBA advocate, but I call bullshit on anyone saying something like that.
George II
(67,782 posts)....like that, I'm sure it pushes a few more who are on the fence over to the gun control side.
It may also shame some NRA supporters into giving up on them.
CBHagman
(16,987 posts)During an anti-violence march on Capitol Hill just days after the Newtown massacre, staffers in a private-sector office were shouting at the participants, "Arm the teachers!"
In the months and years following the shooting there were news stories of school districts instituting procedures such as holding active-shooter survival drills and posting guards to screen little kids' lunch containers and backpacks.
[url]http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/14/250744414/parents-say-school-security-has-increased-since-newtown-massacre[/url]
There was as well the usual hand-wringing about mental health care, but I haven't noticed that lawmakers have done anything to increase access or that communities are more likely to intervene before a disturbed member turns violent. If anyone has data to the contrary, I'd honestly like to hear about it.
But people have been buying up weapons, and multiple states have been actually loosening gun restrictions.
[url]http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/post-newtown-states-loosen-gun-restrictions.html[/url]
And it was possible for a woman to go on Capitol Hill and proclaim that the gun Adam Lanza used to kill staff and children at Sandy Hook Elementary School made women safer. Of course the first person Adam Lanza shot was his mother, who owned that AR-15.
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/01/30/gayle-trotter-guns-make-women-safer/[/url]
jwirr
(39,215 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)We know you're lurking somewhere in here. Stand up and be counted.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Paladin
(28,267 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)is what is wrong with this country.
marble falls
(57,136 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)'Chas' and his fellow mouthpieces for the gun industry will not be treated well in the history books.
Guns are the tools of, and a major symbol of racism.
brooklynite
(94,657 posts)"The only way to stop a white racist with a gun is a black with..."
no, that's not going to work.....
Orrex
(63,218 posts)Whatever outlandish or preposterously vile statement one imagines they might say, they will certainly say something much worse.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)the shooter is responsible for these deaths, nobody else.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)If ONLY the congregants had been packin'. Every Joe, Jack 'n Jane needs a piece on their hip from the time they're old enough to pull it from the holster and fire it!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)and open fire with automatic weapons.
Come to think of it -- it could be a dynamic beginning of a movie!!
durablend
(7,462 posts)"CLEARLY A DERANGED LIBRUL TRYING TO MAKE US LOOK BAD!!!!!!!"
csziggy
(34,136 posts)And that they have metal detectors at the entrances.
No link, just what I have read here in the past.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I bet they do thorough background checks on their people as well....
</snark>
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)What took them so long? I thought this would be yesterday's news already.
It isn't hard to figure out that concealed carry as the antidote to open carry is a recipe for disaster. But it will sell a lot of guns.
Paladin
(28,267 posts)DU gun militants, these are the people who are representing you and advancing your cause. Attempts to disassociate yourselves from them are futile.
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)How can things be so wrong for so long with no possibility of it ever being corrected?
These guys will never ever suffer any negative consequences for these tragedies.
If there is a God he's white and racist.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Or tax the living hell out of them.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Let's hear what the NRA would say then
durablend
(7,462 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)world wide wally
(21,749 posts)Your "more guns will fix everything" bullshit doesn't work.
Never has...
Never will
So STFU and move to Syria or someplace where they use guns all the time.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)What trash.