NRA Releases Video To Reassure Gun Owners

By Tom Knighton

This isn’t a fun time for Second Amendment advocates. We’re being demonized. We’re under constant assault, finding ourselves called on to justify our right to keep and bear arms, regardless of what the Constitution says.

In that wake, NRA president Wayne LaPierre stepped in front of the camera. He wanted to reassure gun owners, but the question is, did he?

Judge for yourself.

Some key takeaways are the NRA’s opposition to pretty much everything the anti-gunners are putting forward right about now. They want universal background checks, which LaPierre vows the NRA will work against. They’re against national reciprocity, which LaPierre reiterated his support for.

Most importantly, though, at least in my opinion, was LaPierre echoing the call to hold government officials accountable for their own failures leading up to the Parkland massacre.

The politicians in Washington created an environment that laid the groundwork for Parkland when they decided to incentivize schools to fail to report problem children. The school officials laid the groundwork when they accepted those incentives despite seeing the warning signs in the future killer. Sheriff Scott Israel laid the groundwork when his department failed to act on the …Read the Rest

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