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In the wake of the Charleston massacre, NRA board member Charles Cotton blamed the massacre on the pastor. He said,
"And he voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue."
It doesn't matter how you slice it. That statement was patently wrong and utterly ridiculous. The pastor did not hold the shooter's hand or commit any offense aside from being black. While he wasn't speaking officially for the NRA, his comments reflect the mentality and perspective he brings to the table when the organization is making decisions.
I grew up in a very pro-2A family, but my father cancelled his NRA membership because he felt it was heading in the wrong direction. That it had increasingly shed reason and practicality in favor of extreme positions arrived at through fear (or possibly corruption). He felt the organization no longer represented the actual desires and concerns of most gun owners and has actually served to turn public opinion against gun ownership. I tend to agree with him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/19/an-nra-board-member-blamed-a-murdered-pastor-for-the-deaths-in-charleston-yes-really/
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"And he voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue."
It doesn't matter how you slice it. That statement was patently wrong and utterly ridiculous. The pastor did not hold the shooter's hand or commit any offense aside from being black. While he wasn't speaking officially for the NRA, his comments reflect the mentality and perspective he brings to the table when the organization is making decisions.
I grew up in a very pro-2A family, but my father cancelled his NRA membership because he felt it was heading in the wrong direction. That it had increasingly shed reason and practicality in favor of extreme positions arrived at through fear (or possibly corruption). He felt the organization no longer represented the actual desires and concerns of most gun owners and has actually served to turn public opinion against gun ownership. I tend to agree with him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/19/an-nra-board-member-blamed-a-murdered-pastor-for-the-deaths-in-charleston-yes-really/
SGT (Join to see), MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca, SGT Efaw (Mick) G. , SFC Mark Merino , TSgt Hunter Logan
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What a crap comment to make. Once again, all the ills of the world are boiled down to agenda setters. The two camps of 'if I only had a gun'....,and 'because they had a gun'. When I go to church, I don't expect snipers to defend me from the steeple. I do expect crazy people to act crazy and do crazy things when they are allowed to go through life crazy. Crazy is as crazy does. For political reasons, we hear the incidents of broken people carrying out their demented fantasies with a gun again, and again, and again. Welcome to the wonderful age of the internet. Nothing has changed, except the way we report get fed the news. Forget the fact that alcohol kills more people daily than all the nut jobs combined can do in years. Prohibition has been tried and failed and won't get any political hacks elected. Our own media is to blame. Take the time to unplug and think for yourself. There is never a focus on the happy median with them. The media demands absolute thinking. Why? It sells air time, endorsements, makes money, etc. Remember when the news was 1/2 an hour at 6am and at 11pm only? We learned more real things going on in the world when there was no time to waste. They did actual reporting. We live in the same world as back then, but this 24/7 reporting crap fills out the hours by pitting our citizens against each other. We are individually categorized into groups that we are expected to fall into. We believe we have freedom of speech, but what a load of garbage. In the words of Metallica, "you can do it your own way, if it's done just how I say." You are not allowed to disagree or you are a racist, an elitist, a gun nut, a baby killer, a stooge, a victim, a sexist, an illegal, a freeloader, the list is endless. Freedom of speech? Laughable. They own us. All they have to do is stick the camera in our face. Paranoid, long-ass, rant complete. Drops mike; exits stage left.
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We have evil people doing evil things. We are surrounded by evil. And only when we change the hearts and minds of those that are evil will we make progress.
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"Never let a crisis go to waste" - Rahm Emanuel
I am not PC, but that is one of the most shameful, exploitive, and pandering statements I have heard in a long time. It made me blanch, and that is not easy. This guy needs to be fired, but not before being repudiated by the NRA. This is not a time to make points. It was in poor taste from the other side of the issue post Sandy Hook, and it is vile now.
Those people are dead because a douchebag wanted to kill in a racist orgy of loser-life depravity. Please, oh please put him in the regular prison population and let justice be served.
I am not PC, but that is one of the most shameful, exploitive, and pandering statements I have heard in a long time. It made me blanch, and that is not easy. This guy needs to be fired, but not before being repudiated by the NRA. This is not a time to make points. It was in poor taste from the other side of the issue post Sandy Hook, and it is vile now.
Those people are dead because a douchebag wanted to kill in a racist orgy of loser-life depravity. Please, oh please put him in the regular prison population and let justice be served.
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SGT Jeremiah B.
I doubt he'll be fired or that even if he was, it would make a lick of difference. Boards of privately held companies are self-selected. I worked for one organization where potential board candidates were passed over for political ideology not competence. When Cotton wrote that statement, it's very likely he wasn't saying something every other board member thought. They were just smart enough not to put it in writing for everyone to see.
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SGT Jeremiah B.
Admittedly, it's hard NOT to politicize a problem that has, at least in part, a political solution. What I can't understand is why, despite everyone agreeing that mental health care is a significant contributor, neither side has managed to table a single workable solution that I'm aware of.
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