NEWTOWN, CT -- U.S. Senator-elect Chris Murphy, a Congressman whose district includes Newtown, called today's announcement from the National Rifle Association "the most revolting, tone-deaf statement I've ever heard."
"While Newtown continues the horrifying work of burying twenty children and six adults, the NRA has the gall to say that the solution to this problem is more, not fewer guns," he said.
"The NRA has now made itself completely irrelevant to the national conversation about preventing gun violence, by saying that the answer to the tragedy in Newtown is to put more deadly semi-automatic assault weapons on the streets and into our schools."
The NRA statement today — after a weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people last week in Sandy Hook — called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools.
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Also, how are you any less anonymous than myself on here? I have been known as Watts for my whole life and for any locals who followed my posts through this event, know that I was a classmate of Dawn (the principle who was murdered in this event) and if anybody really cared, all they would have to do is look up the yearbook and see who Watts is. Your mention that you are from NV is the only thing at all that we know of your identity.
Todays politicians all rely on lawyers and make up news reporters and cases of stoopid pills
I disagree.
Which one of you thinks Columbine would have been better off without an armed cop being there at the time? Blumenthal said a cop did not prevent Columbine from happening. Neither did an assault weapons ban.
An armed person is someone who goes to the range and is taught as best as possible to "take down" someone. This is ALL better than having a gun-free zone known to every criminal, every mentally ill person so that they can go in and shoot at people like they're fish in a bowl until their energy runs out or they shoot themselves or the SWAT team gets there. Every responsible gun owner knows they need to go to the range and hone their skills and keep themselves abreast of techniques to "take down" a deranged person with a gun.
As for my home being a target, that's pretty doubtful. Even if it got out that I was a gun owner, a criminal breaking into my home would have a hard time finding my weapon considering I carry it on my person, concealed. Since you hate guns so much, why don't you broadcast that your home is a "gun free zone"... perhaps a yard sign on your lawn?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/50283353#50283353 Just listen to this LaPierre in his own words. This is the definition of living in oblivion. No rational person can watch him in this interview and think that his fringe thinking represents most Americans' way of thinking.
You still have that right. The world will still exist. It's okay. Really.
"6:01 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012 Watts I doubt you even are a gun owner." Here you are accuse me of being a liar with no basis. From just 1 minute later you posted... "6:02 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012 "You can't use it for hunting......why do you need it???" -Watts analysis of the 2nd Amendment." Which is an absolute lie about me, supposedly quoting something that I never said or even insinuated. You can do a search on page through the whole thread or my posting history and not find that quote. On the other hand, I have been 100% honest in what I have posted. And you are completely misusing the term ad hominem. Ad hominem, as even your quote of Hitchens points out, is the faltering to character attack during an engagement about a different subject. But if you go back to my original post directed at you, I was never engaging on any other subject except your character (or lack, there of). That was always the subject for me, it wasn't a faltering from a different subject that I was engaged in. And your lies about me and unsubstantiated accusation that I was a liar, proves my point that you lack the character to properly conduct yourself. As for my points that you created this account as an opportunist to use this tragedy to push an agenda is easily proved by anybody who looks at your posting history. And most would find that to be reprehensible at this time.
"My guess is that you are probably a paid NRA mouthpiece out here trying to make the counter argument to what most Americans are asking for, but the way that you are doing it is nauseating." So where am I being paid or why would I be? And also Watts if you think the 2nd Amendment isn't for hunting what is it for? lol