take on the NRA

Can somebody please tell me why an average person needs to have a weapon intended for the theater of war?    Like we have said many times on this blog, there is a clear difference with a hunting rifle and an Uzi and that difference should not be taken lightly in the same reason why we don't have the people driving through the streets in tanks and carrying anti-aircraft missiles on their shoulder.   

 

After the NRA Facebook page and Twitter accounts went dark last week, I really thought that we had finally come to a period where we could have honest discourse but like most everything in 2012 the thought of civilized debate is gone.    How tone death is the NRA to put all the blame on last Friday's travesty on video games and none of the fact we are arming mentally disturbed people with guns that can take out 100 people in a minute.    Then they have the audacity to say that there aren't enough guns in classrooms.  
if this is the America they envision they have to realize that this is very different than what the rest of us are looking for.   A classroom is no place for a gun regardless if it's being wielded by a good-guy or bad-guy and the concept of the National School Shield Emergency Response Program is sickening especially since it was proposed three hours after a moment of silence for the victims in that terrible tragedy.. I don't have any interest in my daughters going to a school where the lunch lady is packing heat even if she's doing it to protect the kids she is feeding.   

What was most comical was that instead of looking at themselves honestly they put all the blame on Hollywood and Xbox and  brought some video game up nobody has ever heard of called 'kindergarten killer'.  Obviously this game is sick but this is like blaming all US policy on immigration based on what one guy from the KKK thinks.

The NRA has 4.3 million members and somehow when it comes to guns they speak for 300million plus.    There are many surveys that the average NRA member believes that a ban on assault weapons is sensible and many will tell you that we need to get away from the gunshow loopholes but somehow the fringe of the fringe is able to carry the conversation nationwide.