Posted on 12/21/2012 9:49:37 AM PST by neverdem
Remarks from the NRA press conference on Sandy Hook school shooting, delivered on Dec. 21, 2012 (Transcript)
Here's a transcript of the remarks from the NRA press conference on the Sandy Hook school shooting. Statements are being updated as the remarks unfold.
DAVID KEENE, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION: Good morning.
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LAPIERRE: Good morning.
The National Rifle Association -- 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters -- join the nation in horror, outrage, grief, and earnest prayer for the families of Newtown, Connecticut, who have suffered such an incomprehensible loss as a result of this unspeakable crime.
Out of respect for the families and until the facts are known, the NRA has refrained from comment.
While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectably silent. Now, we must speak for the safety of our nation's children.
LAPIERRE: Because for all the noise and anger directed at us over the past week, no one, nobody has addressed the most important, pressing and immediate question we face: How do we protect our children right now, starting today, in a way that we know works?
The only way to answer that question is to face the truth. Politicians pass laws for gun free school zones, they issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them. And, in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.
How have our nation's priorities gotten so far out of order. Think about it. We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings, power plants, court houses, even sports stadiums are all protected by armed security.
LAPIERRE: We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Jack Anderson was a Journalist. The current bastards in media are far from journalists, being well-paid propaganda spittlists only, and many of them are damned near illiterate to boot!
Thanks for the link. What happened to gun free school zones?
1.It's unconstitutional.
2.It's a hysterical over reaction.
3.It's fascism. It's the same hysteria that brought us the TSA circus.
4.He also spewed the liberal hooey about violent video games and movies (where are you when we need you, Tipper Gore?).
5.He said something about a "mental health database". You comfortable with that?
His reaction is the flip side of the liberals. Hysterical statism. He is no conservative.
I had read before that the NRA had gone Beltway, but I wasn't prepared for this. I think the GOA is a much better organization (at least politically).
I wouldn't say so. It's more like ju jitsu. Why should schools be supposedly gun free kill zones? Why can't school staff with adequate training and adult students who are veterans in colleges and universities have concealed carry? It's a right at least in Alaska, Arizona, Vermont and Wyoming, except in gun free kill zones.
The mental health angle is more tricky. The left, if they had their druthers, would deny any 2nd Amendment rights to anyone with a DUI. I don't believe any of the Founding Fathers would sell a firearm to the town lunatic.
Bottom line: The NRA did not fold on so called assault weapons or high capacity magazines.
I do not like a special interest, such as the NRA, to ask the United States Congress to spend more of my tax dollars. Like our current Republican congressmen, the NRA lacks cogent thought and are spineless. Spending more money that we do not have will not solve this problem. What needs to be done is getting rid of a lot of the gun laws we have on the books. This is at the state and federal level. There should be no gun free zones. Teachers, parents, and administrators should be allowed to carry weapons anywhere they want. Criminals certainly do, and they do no go through background checks. The problem will never be fully solved since you can't ban mental disease.
There was a time, not so long ago, that students would bring shotguns and rifles to school (left in their vehicles) to go hunting after school. That was normal for where I live in PA. It was also at a time there there was far less school security. Now, there is a resource officer at my daughter's high school. There are no gang problems, rampant drug problems - just kids being kids and a lot of mandatory anti-bullying programs.
This is teaching boys to rely on government to solve all of their problems, making them timid and weak and not to stand up to the real world. Meanwhile the lard ass resource officer lacks all ability to truly protect the students. Police are only minutes away when you immediately need them. Lard ass police officers take even longer.
1. do nothing ?
2. arm the kids ?
3. arm the teachers ?
4. ban profiling extending 2nd amendment rights to psychos ?
5. hysterically overreact and attack the NRA for making a suggestion in terms that liberals can understand ?
I firmly believe that this is a state not federal issue This is not in the enumerated powers of the federal gov , but your criticism of the NRA is like shooting the dog for not killing the cat when he scratched up the sofa
that is not conservative either. Personal responsibility is not blaming someone else for ones lack of self control . Watching violent movies is no excuse for mass murder
Your ideas are great. Obamacare and social security should also be repealed. Too bad they will never happen.
US politics is a like a NASCAR race, speeding to the left , politicians are forced to do what they can as they struggle for pole position, turning right is not an option unfortunately
Better a fat, old guy than a buzzcut juicer! Already we see stories all over the country of these school cops arresting little kids for things that we used to stand in the corner for. The combination of public school "zero tolerance" tyrants + bad cops is a recipe for disaster. Just what we need. Mary's Little Lamb follows her to school one day, and the cop blows it away because it appeared threatening. ;)
Seriously. Perhaps cops in schools make sense in some places. But, I don't like it. And it definitely shouldn't be federally mandated.
>> “Liberals are wailing and angry about the recent massacre, but are stone cold and perfectly fine with one million aborted human lives every year.” <<
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Yes, that is the salient point.
Killing defenseless children is every Democrat’s main hobby.
> “ And that’s the clip you’ll see on the MSM.” <<
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What LaPierre is doing is what is known as Cooling the Mark.
The NRA has done nothing on this but give the media a little candy, while offering up effluvious rhetoric to the members that pay for his royal life style.
What is needed is action in the form of immediate communication to all the congressmen that owe their political lives to the NRA’s campaign cash, that the gun free school zones must die immediately.
>> “Well done, Wayne.” <<
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What has he done? (in the real world sense, not entertainment)
>> “La Pierre for President” <<
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We have his functional equivalent in there right now.
All talk, all the time.
Your comments are facetious.
You have been suckered in.
Literally every federal encumbrance on our gun owner rights has been in the form of a bill written by the NRA, and enacted by congress.
Then they get rich begging donations to fight their own legislation program in court.
La Pierre’s current comments offer more of the same, and its way past time to say no to the NRA.
Assault Media
That's a good term for the media as they cause the mass shootings and assault people like Palin
How many copy cats coming out the woodwork now as they publicize this shooting more?
ban the gov schools, ban the federal government, ban the media = no more problems. don't ban our rights ( like owning guns
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