The NRA's R. Budd Dwyer moment
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The NRA's R. Budd Dwyer moment
You could make the case that -- echoing the infamous 1987 case of Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer -- the NRA called a press conference Friday to commit (political) suicide in front of a television audience. Just look at the reaction from New York City's not-at-all-liberal tabloids. LBJ said famously that if he'd lost Walter Cronkite (over Vietnam), he'd lost America. What does it say when the NRA loses Rupert Murdoch's conservative New York Post.
In a way, Wayne LaPierre's insane and inane rant to keep schools safe by flooding them with guns was a good thing. Moderate America needed to see -- in the words of a movie that aired this weekend -- that it should pay no attention to man behind the curtain.
That said, there's a wall of Tea Party congressmen -- like this whackadoo -- who may still thwart the growing American majority on gun sanity.
Then what?
Comments (54)
Bunch...give up on trying to present the NRA as a fringe group. Most gun owners question their stance. However, don't try to pass off the need for gun control...it won't happen. You have to respect the 2nd Amendment rights and discuss the real concern in this society...how do you prevent gun violence and address the concern that society is in decline.— FletcherT- As crazy as Clinton.... who proposed the same damn thing.— turkytom
- Many urban schools in NJ have had armed police for over a decade. Columbine had an armed guard on duty in 1999. All universities have their own armed campus police. Do liberals like not realize how stupid they sound when they mock the NRA's suggestion? — URANIUM235
- Awesome examples. That didn't slow down the Virgina Tech shooter or Colombine. I am so waiting for Clinton to come out and say 'I thought that then but not now.' It's coming. — jonline
- Two things; First, La Pierre did not propose to flood schools with guns, as you misstate. He proposed one armed guard per school. If Mike Bloomberg can have 18 armed guards in his escort, why can't a school have one? Does he have 18 times more of a right to be protected from a criminal than an 8-yr old kid?
Second, Your gratuitious blurting of of the late Mr Dwyer's name in such a context is an insult to his surviving family. Where's your sense of decency? (Strictly rhetorical. I don't intend to send you looking for long-lost stuff.)— DonQ - "He [Wayne La Pierre] proposed one armed guard per school."
But I'm sure you'd be against raising taxes to facilitate this. - So, you want to see more kids die just to save a buck? — DonQ
- No, I want to squeeze you, a right-winger, to say he'd be willing to accept higher taxes to make his belief come to fruition.
Well, huh? - Sorry, Lib! No need to raise taxes. All we need is to free the funds by getting rid of a few patronage positions in the PSD. — DonQ
- A don't understand why some Tea Partiers, like the one in the linked article, are so big on defending guns. I thought the Tea Party was about taxation and budgeting issues. What do guns have to do with that?— archie stark
- If you read the linked article, he isn't identified as a Tea Party person, and he doesn't call himself one in the linked article, either.
It's Will Bunch identifying him as a Tea Partier. Unfortunately, Will gets a daily blog, but doesn't reaslize that, as you say, the Tea Party is about txation and budgeting issues. - If you read the linked article, he isn't identified as a Tea Party person, and he doesn't call himself one in the linked article, either.It's Will Bunch identifying him as a Tea Partier. Unfortunately, Will gets a daily blog, but doesn't realize that, as you say, the Tea Party is about taxation and budgeting issues. (HTML deleted)
- tasteless to say the least— get_itright
- No one thinks the NRA members form a fringe group--just the NRA leaders, who appear to be bought by the gun manufacturers. Although I confess that my nephew is just as crazy as LaPierre when it comes to gun issues and also his oldest son, so just being a regular NRA member does not mean you are exempt from the nuttiness espoused by LaPierre and Charlton Heston before him. Yet most of the NRA members I know--granted I am in a blue state, but in a part of it with a strong hunting culture--have perfectly reasonable views on gun control and understand why putting more guns in schools will not solve any problems. Littleton High was protected by an armed guard and Fort Hood had a whole army base full of guns.— Archimedes
- If a school did not have a fire suppression system in it the parents would be outraged and they also get upset at the thought of a cop being in the school. The odds of their children becoming a victim of a violent act at a school is far greater than perishing in a fire.— IceCold
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