NRA Robocalls In Newtown Spark Outrage From Local Gun Control Group

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Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association came under fire late Thursday from members of a gun-control advocacy group in Newtown, Conn., after reports surfaced of Newtown residents receiving robocalls and pro-gun postcards from the NRA.

The advocacy group, the Newtown Action Alliance, posted a Facebook message Thursday about the calls, prompting responses from people who said they'd received communications from the NRA and were upset by them.

"I received one of these," Newtown resident Christopher Wenis wrote on Facebook Thursday afternoon. "I was insulted and offended." Wenis told The Huffington Post in an interview Friday night that in the 36 hours since he first posted his response, he received two more robocalls from the NRA, one later on Thursday night and one Friday evening.

"I've got a 5-year-old son who went to preschool on the Sandy Hook Elementary School campus," Wenis explained. "And this was a really hard week for me on a lot of levels. These calls were the very last thing I needed."


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/nra-robocalls-newtown-_n_2934948.html

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Heartless Bastards. Fuck those gun industry tools!

[gordianot]

1. Fire meet gasoline.

It does make one wonder how deliberate it was to include this town on a mailing list.

[spicegal]

2. I believe this is a form of intimidation, and shows the disgusting lengths to which the NRA will go.

This country needs to change its gun culture before we can make meaningful progress. Just like cigarettes, guns need to become distasteful, killers of the innocent, unfashionable, unnecessary, etc. etc. While I know this will never happen, and never would have advocated it until now, I think we'd be far better off without the 2nd amendment. That doesn't mean banning guns, but at least it would make it easier to address the problem.

[mbperrin]

7. Yes, one of the posters on HuffPost said that the family in the article

was targeted for punishment because of their anti-gun stance.

Seems to me to be a form of assault in light of the circumstances.

[Gore1FL]

3. It's like they are being proactive about offending people

One would assume at least one person had to sign off on this. Probably a high-ranking someone.


As an article-related side note the first sentence is a little awkward in it's metaphor:
"The National Rifle Association came under fire late Thursday from members of a gun-control advocacy group..."

I have to say, intentional or not on the part of the author, that wording provoked an involuntary giggle from me.

[City Lights]

4. The nra is completely tone deaf.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. I agree to what someone said up thread...

This was done on purpose as intimidation.

[unionthug777]

5. wtf

disgusting !!!!

[timdog44]

6. Members of the NRA should hang their heads in shame for this

insensitive intrusion on the lives of people traumatized by the policies of the NRA.

They are no different than the Westboro Church people and their behavior.

I have been trying of late to not be dropping the f bomb, but this pushes me to the limit. Just absolutely despicable.

[mbperrin]

8. Yes, they ARE being exactly like the Westboro sickies.

Not there to convert or change minds, just to punish victims further.

Mental illness if ever there were.

[99Forever]

9. The NRA is a terrorist organization.

May they all rot and burn.

[modrepub]

10. Flush with Money

People complain about union dues as shakedowns. NRA fees seem to go to nice offices, nice clothing with plenty of slop to buy fancy of advertising. Anyone know how much these people pull down each year?

[SunSeeker]

11. Unfuckingbelievable.

The folks who got those calls were the families of these kids...



Somebody should be suing the NRA for intentional infliction of emotion distress and demanding huge punitive damages (being as they are based on the defendant's assets/income).

[Mkap]

13. They do this a lot

They held a pro gun rally two weeks after the columbine shooting in Denver, so this should come to no surprise. They enjoy rubbing it the faces of parents who lost love ones