NRA Makes Pre-Statement Notice

[PegLeg45]

The NRA makes a brief statement then the main NRA website is unavailable again.

The NRA 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. 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. The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.

https://www.facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation

https://www.nraila.org

The service is unavailable.

[tombogan03884]

"The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."

In other words the f*cking NRA is going to sell us out again.

[mrmatt2you]

I don't think they are going to sell us out again.   I think they have been in the right to not come out and say anything.  I find it classy that they did not run to the closest mic to spout out.   So was the NRA in the wrong when they said they wanted people who had mental illness not to get a firearm?   They were one of the supporters behind that.   
We just have a few days to wait till they come out with a statement.  I would rather wait a few days and have 1 announcement then them come out right away and put out a statement and then issue another statement and then have to recorrect that.  That would make them sound like the White House.

[MikeBjerum]

Relax Bogan!

The NRA and most conservative leaders are doing what I said we should all do:  They are sitting back and respecting the suffering of others.  There is a time to not be political.  Rather than try and figure out what is coming, get down on your knees and pray for the suffering, and wait for the facts to come out.

[tombogan03884]

The only way a gun rights group can make what the left would consider " meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."
Is to cave .
They will either sacrifice standard capacity magazines or modern semi auto's.
They have not got balls enough to say guns have no place in a mental health issue, and they have to much invested in perpetuating the threat.

As for "relaxing" I will point out that it was complacent idiots that brought the country to this point by electing these AHoles.
People like m58 talk about "respect for the grieving families" and similar sentiments shows just how badly he doesn't get it.
People like you have lost 2 presidential elections in a row and you still don't get it.
This is Alinsky politics and you are getting your ass kicked .
While you have been sitting on your thumbs you have given the left 4 days head start to brain wash the masses .
Politics is war by other means and the slow learners have just handed your sworn enemies a key ingredient to victory.
They didn't "Seize the initiative" they had it handed to them on a silver platter with one of those fancy domes.
The kind they will use to serve you your head.
 All those folksy fantasies about "people caring for people" may sound nice in Hicksville, but this is big city real world stuff, until you are ready to slander, malign, or knife your opponent you better get used to being his b!tch.

That is how power is used.

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[Timothy]

I tend to agree with m58 whether it helps or not!  The brainwashing of the masses started well before this horrific event Tom!

These kids haven't even been laid to rest yet and I'm staying out of it for the time being.  Feel free to call me whatever name you see fit but sometimes it's better to sit back and let things play out.  YMMV.

[tombogan03884]

If you are not going to fight effectively for your rights you do not deserve them.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Never go outside the experience of your people.
Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Keep the pressure on.
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

You have already let them do at least 3 of 12.
You will never protect what you have left, let alone restore what's been lost if you continue to hold the delusion that ethics, or scruples has any place in politics.
The Christian Right and other "goody two shoes groups needs to STFU and tend to their souls and leave politics to the realists who actually understand it.

[Timothy]

Yes Tom, I'm a loser!  Glad you cleared that up for me....

[JLawson]

Now is not the time to squabble amongst ourselves... we need to focus all of our collective attention on those with whom we disagree.  I don't always agree with what the NRA says or with what they do but I believe with every ounce of my being (and that's A LOT of ounces) that without the NRA we would have suffered far worse at the hands of the progressive left.  The NRA is not the only pro-2A organization that does good work but they are the largest, strongest, most well-funded, and the most feared lobby we have and they need our continued support.

If you are not a member then please sign up today.  Buy memberships for your spouse, your children, and your friends.  Strength in membership is what garners the attention of vote-hungry lawmakers.  Send the NRA-ILA regular contributions so they will have the funds necessary to fight what will be a long and bitter struggle.  Contact your State and Federal representatives, even if they are on our side, to make clear that any infringement of our 2A is unacceptable.

We have fought this war before and won... we will do it again.

[tombogan03884]

Yes Tom, I'm a loser!  Glad you cleared that up for me....

Glad you  said it so I don't have to.
Complacency and thinking of the enemy as "reasonable people" will lose us our rights just like it did in England, Canada, and Australia under the exact same circumstances.