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NRA Breaks Silence on Newtown Massacre

Pledges 'meaningful contributions' to prevent mass shootings

Dec 18, 2012 by Mary Noble

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There's been a lot of media comment on the NRA's silence since Friday's Newtown tragedy. The organization has now broken its silence by expressing sympathy for the victims and announcing a further major statement to follow on Friday.

The National Rifle Association of America is made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters - " and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.

The statement explained the group's earlier silence: "Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting." And the group announced a major news conference set for Friday, at which they'll offer "meaningful contributions" on the issue of mass shootings in America.

The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. The NRA is planning to hold a major news conference in the Washington, DC area on Friday, December 21.

Via the Wall Street Journal.

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Neo_NtheMatrix

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Now, can you liberals get off the NRA's backs?
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woodtick57

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who's ever been on their backs? paranoid much?
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CCR

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@woodtick57 Apparently your TV or internet has been out.
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Synthesis

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It's just Standard operating procedure, I bet whenever there's a public atrocity committed that involved guns they stay silent for a while to allow the public to cool, do something like now which is putting out a positive statement, and then when a bill is introduced they'll lobby against it as much as they can.
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woodtick57

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@CCR

I haven't owned a TV in over a decade. i was referring to sane people, not your media hacks.
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Denizen_Kate

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Who's been on the NRA's backs? There has been very little vitriol aimed in their direction on this web site.
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WilliamWallace

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I would like to hear them fighting for our 2nd amendment rights. I figure I will hear it.
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Neo_NtheMatrix

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They won't cave like Boehner. Boehner thinks that by the time election day comes around his constituents will have forgotten all about how he sold them up the river. The NRA can be shut down immediately if they don't do the bidding of their members. I can't wait until Friday. There will be a lot of upset liberals on that day.
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OpEn_MiNdEd

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Banning assault rifles is not a breach of the 2nd Amendment.
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WilliamWallace

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@OpEn_MiNdEd If I regulate what you can say is that a breach of the 1st Amendment?

I guess your name does not represent how you are.
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Dan_Tien

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@OpEn_MiNdEd Banning assault rifles didn't stop the Columbine High School shootings either.
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woodtick57

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@WilliamWallace

your right to free speech is regulated. the first amendment does not give you the right to say anything and everything and the second amendment does not give you the right to own rocket launchers and handgrenades. all right s are regulated.
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Dan_Tien

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What would I like to hear from the NRA on Friday? Nothing. They have no better answers about why some nut kills children.
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woodtick57

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exactly. What do they have to do with it anyway?
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jessejaymes

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I think you're wrong here Dan. I want to hear what they have to say. Either they're going to come at us reasonable and that's progress or they're going to bury themselves and that also is progress. I'm a gun owner with very little respect for the NRA. I want to see if they are willing to compromise because 4 million people out of more than 300 million shouldn't be able to hold a nation hostage.
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PoliticalSpice

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They are playing for time, trying to assure no legislation happens before the end of the world, which according to mayan calendar watchers is friday. Brilliant move.
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Dan_Tien

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@PoliticalSpice The Mayan Calendar includes no prediction of the end of the world, according to the most experienced translators of Mayan heiroglyphs. Read "A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya" to see their disclaimer.

http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Forest_...
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PoliticalSpice

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@Dan_Tien well, then i guess their plan won't work...
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jmann88

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Shows that some organization still have respect and not politicize something like this. NRA has my full support.
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marine1

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before i go off half cocked, i'll wait to hear what the have to say
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jessejaymes

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That's fair.
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DARSB

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Agreed. I think rather than hiding this may be an opportunity for the NRA to lead the discussion rather than being the token bad guys in this miserable situation. It's risky, though - the NRA is one poor word choice away from near-universal condemnation.
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marine1

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@DARSB The NRA is like any other organization,it has its good and bad points, the trick is to stand your ground without loosing it.
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woodtick57

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@marine1 What if your ground is already loose
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marine1

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@woodtick57 landscape can change so long as your foundation is soild and the NRA foundation is very solid as is the 2nd amendment.
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KRKelly

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I would want to hear them say that they will fight to uphold the meaning and intent of the Second Amendment. Jefferson, Adams, Madison and the other founding fatherss did not create the Second Amendment to insure that the citizens can hunt and plink. They created the Amendment as another Check & Balance to the power, or abuse of power, by the federal government.
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Medicinebow

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Exactly.
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Food4thoughts

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We'll fix it!! Buy more guns and then we'll tell you how!
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woodtick57

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but buy them now, cuz everyone's coming after them!( this worked great for them in 2008...)
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harold_lloyd

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Many of you out there still think the NRA is the same as it was decades ago.
Today's NRA is big business, and they could easily afford to pay to search for real causes for the spate of rampage killings.
They could also support putting semi-auto clones of military weapons under the National Firearms Act of 1934, which regulated, but not banned, so-called 'gangster weapons'.
They supported the act in 1934, so why not today?
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KyleMFb

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I guess that's about as good as it can get
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kathyparsell

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I would like the NRA to push for more hunter's safety and gun owner's courses. I feel that while there are several things that contributed to this horrific event, the NRA as an organization, had little to do with a tragedy caused by an stable individual and his mother who had guns that were legally owned and registered. I also think placing blame on any person or organization that anyone can conceive of is a product of our litigious society. People need to accept personal responsibility and assign blame where it belongs.
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woodtick57

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yes. the hunter safety thing is sorely needed. the hunters i see daily are very poorly trained in safety, or at least they do not follow the training they had.
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kathyparsell

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@woodtick57 Yeah, I fear for the lives of my son (who's taken it twice) and family every dear season. I wish you had to show proof before you got a license to hunt. I am ready to hear it for my next statement too...I think a gun safety/training should be required before you purchase a handgun!
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kathyparsell

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Correction I intended to say an UNSTABLE individual. Big oops! Sorry.
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gregorytoye

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Nothing what are they gonna do
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Kellso

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I wouldlike for the NRA to support restrictions of ANY assault weapon and accessory for one
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PoliticalSpice

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I would like a sample of whatever you are smoking tonight...
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MarkJM

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@PoliticalSpice Hilarious @Kellso the NRA supporting any assault weapon ban or restriction is like saying the 0bama Administrations tells the truth; both don't happen.
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Kellso

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@MarkJM Even a stupid hog finds an ear of corn when it begins to starve. I think that even the most completely idiotic person that isnt a mentally challenged, brainwashed, soon to be killer, can understand this....
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MarkJM

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@Kellso Tell that to Adam Lanza....oops too late...
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Kellso

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@MarkJM If he had only a three shot shutgun or a six shot revolver dont you think that even tho he woudl have done carnage, SOMEBODY woudl have stopped him before he killed so many?????????/ DUH!
Where most of the problem lies these days is mental problems caused BY SOCIETY. OUTLAW the vidoe games of killing. Stop schools from pushing pushing pushing crap in the ch8ildrens minds and the short circuit JUST LIKE WHEN BRAINWASHING IS DONE!
There are always going to be mentally ill people but not even a drop in the bucket
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stepped_in_it

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Boom. HMM, just what I said hours before!
http://politix.topix.com/stmt/LEFT0BUR0EQ70BD...
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Pflack

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I would like to hear they want to joint the twenty first century and ban firearms to every one except military and the police. Only exception being rifles a.d shotguns for hunters.
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stepped_in_it

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You do realize "rifles and shotguns" could have done the same carnage....right? Shotgun shells range from 000 (6 pellets X .36) to #4 (21 pellets X .24). The pattern from 15 ft would take several people down
Now, a hunting rifle can take down a 150 lb buck from 200 yards with a scope and can be fired (with a little training) at about 15 rounds a minute.
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PoliticalSpice

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@stepped_in_it considering that the prime cause of this tragedy was knowledge of how to use these weapons by a mentally unbalanced person I would think the audience on this partular forun is the last place you would want to put information like this...
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Medicinebow

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I'd like to hear calls for expanded capabilities for teachers to arm themselves if they desire. I'd like to hear calls to allow CCW holders to be able to carry in public at places like malls and theaters. Gun free zone laws are getting people killed.
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woodtick57

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just perpetuating the mindset that more guns will solve our problems, which is what leads to these tragedies in the first place. Throwing fuel on the fire....
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@woodtick57 I for one just do not understand that "More Guns" statement. I conceal carry already, being allowed to enter one more building does equal more guns. How could it lead to these killings when the last 3 slaying were at gun free zones? We allowed this monster Lanza to have the Fuel and the Fire.
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tomincali

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great idea,time to have more membership drives and make sure to keep your membership up to date.
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tomincali

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need to see what kind and how many meds was involved.
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Vance1

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What would you like to hear from the NRA on Friday?
NO Gun Bans, They will stand up for Americans RIGHTs and FREEDOMs!!!!!!!
and support Arming teachers to protect children from Whacko's
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woodtick57

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no gun bans? Us citizens have the right to own 50 cals?
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well that would be an actual assault rifle at least....Get over yourself
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tomincali

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@woodtick57 hey i have a .50 its not an assault rifle though. ha one shot and takes a few minutes to fire again. don't like wild hogs getting back up.
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@woodtick57
With all the calls for more gun control after the tragic massacre in Newtown Connecticut at the Sandy Hook Elementary School which resulted in the deaths of 20 children aged 6 to 7 years old and six adults, it is worth noting that the worst school massacre in U.S. history where 45 people died, 38 of them elementary school children and 58 others injured, occurred without one person killed by a gun.

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/...
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woodtick57

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@Vance1

and as I stated the last tie you posted this, bimbs are illegal...
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Vance1

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With all the calls for more gun control after the tragic massacre in Newtown Connecticut at the Sandy Hook Elementary School which resulted in the deaths of 20 children aged 6 to 7 years old and six adults, it is worth noting that the worst school massacre in U.S. history where 45 people died, 38 of them elementary school children and 58 others injured, occurred without one person killed by a gun.

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/...
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Denizen_Kate

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Good job, giving the next nut bag an idea of how to out-do Lanza.
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cr8z4amerika

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We will NEVER back down!!
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InjusticeSucks

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The NRA is made up of 4 million Morons who think Guy La Pine or whatever the clowns name is speakes words like a GOD....And no i am not a gun Hater!
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Medicinebow

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That's nothing. Have you seen the number of believers following the guy at 1600 Pa. Ave?
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