Thursday, April 26, 2018

The NRA Vilain Or Not?

None of its 5 million plus members has ever been involved in a mass-shooting; however the NRA is being accused of being responsible for mass-school shootings.
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.

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2 comments:

Watch Dog said...

Error correction!
Item 6 of list should have read--

6.The NRA is the governing body for firearm competition within the U.S.A.

ConcernedMOM said...

Shortly after Columbine our local schools allowed for teachers to be armed. The teachers are trained in NRA courses.

So far there have been zero problems resulting from this program and there have been no school shootings.

However, one of our teachers stopped an armed robbery at a convenience store. The paper reported that she pulled her Ruger and ordered him to drop his shotgun.