It was the National Rifle Association's position that the Sandy Hook elementary school tragedy could have been stopped by armed security people at the school. But what about the deranged off duty security guard who takes out fifty people in Orlando in an explosion of self hate? The NRA, started after the Civil War by soldiers who were dismayed by the poor shooting and firearms handling skills of the public in general, needs to throttle back its current and dogged determination to defend the indefensible and go back to its roots of educating the public on the proper use of firearms rather than use its political muscle to test the outer edges of the Second Amendment. The parents of the Newtown Connecticut shooting have a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the AR-15, the gun used in the massacre of children and teachers, where the Judge is ruling that the Pandora’s box of promotional materials and internal memos regarding the gun’s ego boosting Rambo qualities be made public and shame the NRA from being the cheerleaders of unfettered and irresponsible gun use rather than the responsible organization they started out as being.
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