Some fanatics are even calling them a ‘terrorist’ organization.
Let’s examine the ‘evil’ things that the NRA has done:
1.
The NRA
actually wrote the “National Instant Criminal Background Check” (NICS) bill for
Congress. Since then they have advocated
for a stronger bill.
2.
Since passage of the bill, the NRA has pushed
for better compliance by the states because only 12 states fully comply with
reporting felons to be included on the NICS.
3.
The NRA has encouraged that those mental
patients that are adjudicated to be at risk, be included on the NICS.
4.
The NRA provides training programs for local,
state, and federal police agencies.
5.
The NRA provides training programs for K thru 12
on firearm safety.
6.
The NRA is the governing body for firearm completion
within the U.S.A.
7.
The NRA is the largest protector of the 2nd
Amendment and therefore, the largest protector of the U.S. Constitution.
Congress uses the NRA as a scapegoat for their failure to enact firearm
legislation. The real reason that they
can’t enact ‘effective’ firearm legislation is because there is nothing that
can be enacted that would prevent any of the mass shootings. Yes, the NRA does lobby Congress to insure
just and effective legislation, but it does not contribute mast sums of money
to individual campaigns. The NRA’s main
contribution to elections is the power of its endorsement.
Congress is reluctant to undertake the one thing that has been common
to ALL of the mass-shootings in schools—mind altering drugs like Prozac. Congress will have to be bold and address the
HIPAA regulations before the mental health issues can be addressed by the
background check.
As we all know the only thing Congress is bold about is blaming others
for their lack of courage.
Oh yes, the NRA is an advocate for “Concealed Carry”! They have a slogan, “Only a good man with a
gun can stop a bad man with a gun”.
This would have been the case during the largest mass- school shooting
in America that occurred at VPI (July 16, 2007). Thirty-two were killed and 17 were
wounded. A number of student survivors who
were concealed carry permit holders, stated that had they been permitted to ‘carry’
on campus, they could HAVE taken the shooter down. The weapons used by the ‘insane’ shooter were
a pair of 9 mm handguns.
For the record; at the present time, there are over 11 million concealed
carry permit holders in the U.S.A., they have a better misuse of firearms record
and that of the police.
In truth, concealed carry permit holders thwart crimes many times every
day. You don’t hear about these stories because
they don’t fit the Medias anti-firearm agenda.
This writer fails to see anything that would indicate that the NRA has
contributed in any way to mass-shootings.
Certainly it is not a terrorist
organization.
Comments are invited!
