10 insane quotes from the NRA press conference

When the NRA took down their social sites and announced they were not going to comment for a few days out of respect for the families of Newton… I knew what the really meant. Truth is they likely needed a few moments to backtrack and think of a new excuse to toss this on to prevent the obivous spike in gun control sentiments.

After waiting for more than a week since the tragic shooting, Mr. LaPierre of the NRA finally spoke and when it was all said and done they were better off not saying anything at all.

Here are a few doozies from that presser:

1) Gun-free schools zones “tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.”

This was a weak comment: the zones and their signs tells people that if you enter this zone with a gun, you will be arrested and be given a still penalty if caught. Just because there will always be people driving above the speed limit doesn’t mean we should put signs up to inform them of what the limit is.

2) “There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.”

Here’s looking at you, NRA.

3) “[V]iolent crime is increasing again for the first time in 19 years! Add another hurricane, terrorist attack or some other natural or man-made disaster, and you’ve got a recipe for a national nightmare of violence and victimization.”

And yet here is the NRA acting like they are the true victims of this whole ordeal. The crocodile tears or false chocking up of his delivery show how evil and deceitful they really are. The NRA has absolutely no accountability at all, not one bit.

People are geniunely angry over what happened in Newton and have spent the last week searching their soul for what should have been done earlier to prevent it. It’s a shame the NRA refuses to do the same for the sake of the victims of the next mass murder.

4) “We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work — and by that I mean armed security.”

This idea of putting cops in every school would require the US to hire an additional 100,000 new police officers, at a cost of six billion. Everyone ready to pay higher taxes to cover that cost?

This is absurd for one reason: Columbine. They had TWO armed deputies watching the school the day and before the shooting. What good did they do to stop the tragedy? Want another example: Red Lake School HAD an armed officer and HE was the FIRST one killed in that attack.

Oops, back to the drawing board on that one.

Here’s a thought: if your 3-year-old is running around putting stickers on your fine wood cabinetry, do you cover everything in plastic wrap or do you take the stickers away from the kid?

5) “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile away … or a minute away?”

Do you guys remember when these NRA guys said Trayvon Martin should have had his own gun to protect himself?

Me neither.

6) “And throughout it all, too many in our national media … their corporate owners … and their stockholders … act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.”

Yes, it’s everyone’s fault except the arms dealers and their booster clubs… can you believe the nerve of this guy?

7) “Then there’s the blood-soaked slasher films like ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Natural Born Killers’ that are aired like propaganda loops on Splatterdays and every day, and a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life.”

Wow, these movies came out like over a decade ago. That’s the best example he could come up with? Just an example of how the NRA is truly living in the past.

8) “In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of every year.”

This is an interesting statement, especially considering that the people who were covering this press conference was the very people he was tossing under the bus. Somehow I don’t think the media is going to treat the NRA with kid gloves after that shot across their bow.

9) “Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here’s one: it’s called Kindergarten Killers. It’s been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn’t or didn’t want anyone to know you had found it?”

Other countries (like Canada right next door) watch the same movies and play the same video games, so why aren’t we shooting people and committing mass murder as often as the United States? Is it because the people in the United States are more homicidal or because they have more access to guns?

The truth is other nations have movies and videos that are even more graphic than what the US consumes and yet do not have the violent mass killings. Guess what the big difference is? Restricted access to guns.

10) “Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?”

Project much Mr. LaPierre? Number 10 is the NRA’s bread and butter.

Speak for yourself dude. I don’t know a single person who gets sexually aroused by violent fantasies. The fact that you think that ways tells me you should never EVER be allowed to purchase a gun.

Here’s the bottom line for the NRA: guns do kill.

We’re not even including the 300 people who die just from accidental discharges of firearms every year. No one pulled the trigger, no one aimed them at the victim. The gun just went off.

The NRA needs to wake up and realize the times have changes. There are no hostile Indian tribes, England is NOT coming back to reclaim their colonies and the commies are not behind every bush and rock. Because of this civilians do not need semi-automatic military style assault weapons. Had the NRA said that today insteaad of trying to toss everything else they could think of under the bus, instead of being a voice of reason… you have become the villain.

You’re the bad guy, one even the GOP will distance themselves from in an attempt to prevent themselves from getting ousted in the mid-terms. Trust me, if the Democrats take the house back in 2014, real gun control will be rammed through the house and signed by Obama faster than the patriot act was.

The blood is on your hands, and you deserve the blame for what happened last week and will happen in the furture if you continue to block resonable gun control. It’s going to happen whether you like it or not, and this time there will not be an expire attached. Not this time…

Peter