Has the NRA lost its way?

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.

"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.

It's a shame, but each side will politicize this massacre.

That was a ridiculous statement, but it was the statement of a person, not an organization.

The NRA lost their way long ago. The more you research about whom they lay in bed with the more you see the BS. I gave up my membership years ago and became a member of National Association of Gun Rights. I want to see my dues be put to good use not to pay their mouth piece $900,000 a year to make a few speeches.

Seems the NRA was a place to learn to handle firearms safely and gun safety was the major program. Target shooting and Marksmanship badge which I did have mostly with .22 rifles while growing up. Responsible handling of firearms at all times. None of us were dangerous and had no mishaps and respected firearms and safety of others as well. Socialism has no place for even that and creating a fear of firearms instead of a respect for them. The attitudes they push are the problem and hateful approach to anyone that doesn't think like them and use of violence to drive the points home and try to get the Government to control everything. These are the people that threaten safety and infringe on the rights of other now to be able to have the potential to protect themselves from a Government that they are trying to change and not for the better. The NRA now is reacting to things that before weren't even an issue and laws that aren't being enforced against actual Criminals. The battle now is against evil individuals who want to disarm their victims and make it easier to prey on them ! Those that are misinformed play right into the hands of the criminals and self serving politicians without even knowing that is what they are doing.

The NRA, NAACP, it's all the same. Organizations rushing to the smoke of an incident with their soapboxes. The only one to blame here is the shooter. If all these organizations and media outlets would shut up for a second and take a breath, we might be able to concentrate on the family and their losses. That's all that matters.

Pew actually shows that the favorability of gun ownership by Americans has actually gone UP. I know that doesn't fit the narrative of the Progressive left, so they just state the opposite, and hope nobody checks. Those who don't favor gun ownership WANT to believe the falsehood, and those who don't believe the falsehood don't care to check.

http://www.pewresearch.org/data-trend/domestic-issues/gun-control/

NO NO NO!

Now that is absolutely the most foolish, ignorant thing to say! That's not a way, for sure, to win a second amendment argument. THIS is WAY TO EARLY to state what if's. I totally agree with you when you say it is wrong SGT Jeremiah B.

The only thing I do not agree with is with your assessment that this is going to be the cornerstone of all or most NRA members... You can't label them all because of that one a$$.

The NRA DID state that "individual board members DO NOT speak for the NRA and DO NOT have the AUTHORITY to speak for the NRA."

And I absolutely LOVE that there are police officers at school.

What this "man" said was tasteless, disgusting, he should come out with an apology if he hasn't all ready. To EVERY SINGLE family member, don't he dare address them as a group. Just irates me, people thinking they can treat others they way that they do.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to defend firearms rights. To me though the NRA is cold and impersonal about tragedies that firearms are used in. I think they would do better being sympathetic then being cold about it.