…But only at their convention.
It’s interesting that the NRA, which approves of guns being allowed in bars, won’t allow members to bring their firearms into their convention next week in Texas. Metal detectors will be placed at the entrance.
You would think that they would welcome guns at a convention that focuses on the right to bear arms. In fact, you would think they might even require members to be armed to enter the convention.
After all, they believe that the best way to stop mass shootings wherever people are gathered – churches, synogogues, schools, concerts, etc. is for people to be armed so they can take down the crazed shooter. But apparently that belief doesn’t extend to their own convention. Go figure.
Mass events like this one – the killing of 19 kids and 2 teachers – often attract meaningful coincidences and this one is no different. Certainly, the pro-gun, no regulations NRA wouldn’t have wanted their annual convention to be on display shortly after and in the same state as a terrible attack on an elementary school with a type of weapon that has no function other than to kill people in large numbers. The kind of weapon found in the military.
Even though 90 percent of Americans want background checks and a ban on assault weapons, nothing changes. The pro-gun lobby controls Republicans and a couple of Dems in the Senate keeping any sane regulations from passing. They argue that the few regulations from the past that they got rid of didn’t stop mass shootings. So how’s it going without any regulations, where an 18-year-old can walk into a gun shop on his birthday and buy two assault weapons with no questions, then a few days later slaughter children? They don’t have any answers and the only thing to do is vote them out of office.
