Posted on 04/30/2013 6:08:55 PM PDT by neverdem
Criminals can't tell who's armed in right-to-carry states, boosting security
As gun owners across the South prepare to gather in Houston for the 142nd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits next weekend, I want to thank the 5 million members of the NRA for all they do to make America safe and free.
If you're an NRA member, you deserve to be proud.
Because today, yet again, it's NRA members and the millions who agree with us - not the press or some in the political ranks - who are doing the thankless and heroic work of standing up for freedom. And it's NRA members who are demanding proven solutions - instead of empty soundbites and slogans - that will make Americans safer.
Twenty years ago, it was NRA members who won tough criminal justice reforms that reduced violent crime, like truth-in-sentencing, "three strikes and you're out" laws, and programs like the federal Project Exile, which warned, "An illegal gun gets you five years in federal prison." By taking armed gang members, armed drug dealers and armed felons off the streets, Project Exile's strict enforcement of existing laws served as a form of prevention - because it removed predators from society before they could continue on to their next killing.
As a result, according to the FBI, over the past 22 years, violent crime has dropped by almost half. And the murder rate has fallen by more than half, to almost the lowest point in U.S. history - even as the number of privately owned...
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Almost from the moment of the tragedy in Newtown, it became apparent that the ensuing push for a wide variety of new anti-gun laws had a lot less to do with school safety than it did with a decades-long crusade to destroy the Second Amendment...
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Proud to be a member of long standing.
And don’t ever expect any kind of admission by the “upper echelon” that the NRA EVER did anything but promote arming everybody so they can kill children. Thanks NRA for what you and other pro-gun organizations do. We know it ain’t easy.
Proud to be a member of long standing.
Amen, friend.
It’s this regime that makes the country more dangerous. A goodexample is not prosecuting gun crimes in hell holes like Chicago
NRA Life Member ping!
Stay safe! Stay armed!
The NRA did not come up with the deadly “gun-free” zones where all the mass killings seem to be happening. The NRA did not create the ghettos where drugs and drive-by shootings are commonplace. The NRA did not cheapen the value of life by allowing legalized abortion. The NRA did not demand light sentences for convicted murderers. The politicians that liberal morons keep re-electing year after year have done all these things yet the NRA gets blamed for the killings.
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