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NRA speaker’s advice: Keep a gun in your child’s room
A home-defense seminar at this weekend’s National Rifle Association convention urged parents to overcome their initial misgivings and store firearms in their childrens’ bedrooms, Think Progress reported on Saturday. “If you’re worried that your kid is going to try to break into the safe that is in their bedroom with…
NRA rails against ‘media and political elites’ as convention opens
Leaders defend National Rifle Association’s hardline resistance to new safety reforms in wake of Newtown shootings The National Rifle Association called on its friends within the Republican party on Friday to defend its dogged opposition to greater gun controls in the wake of the Newtown shootings. Current and former Republican…
Ted Nugent advocates public lynching of Boston bomb suspect
National Rifle Association (NRA) board member Ted Nugent essentially advocated the return of public American lynchings in a Sunday column that decried the modern justice system as too slow to deal with “voodoo” terrorists like the Boston bombing suspect and the Fort Hood shooter. “He probably won’t go to trial…
Texas man shoots himself dead during NRA-sponsored NASCAR race
Authorities in Texas said a 42-year-old man died late Saturday night after shooting himself in the head during a NASCAR race sponsored by the National Rifle Association (NRA). The Associated Press reported that the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office ruled Kirk Franklin’s death a suicide. Franklin allegedly shot himself after…
NRA recommends ‘everything from sidearm to shotgun to AR-15′ in schools
The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) National School Shield program on Tuesday announced recommendations that they said were designed to decrease violence in schools by allowing trained personnel to carry firearms like shotguns and AR-15 assault rifles on campuses. Task force chair Asa Hutchinson, who headed the Drug Enforcement Agency under…
Krugman: NRA thinks ‘we’re living in a Mad Max movie’
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Sunday asserted that the National Rifle Association (NRA) had been “revealed as an insane organization” that “has this vision that we’re living in a Mad Max movie” because it wants to put more guns in schools instead of supporting universal background checks and…
Three shot in Phoenix workplace shooting as NRA testifies to Senate
As National Rifle Association (NRA) head Wayne LaPierre was telling a Senate committee on Wedneday that additional gun laws were not necessary, at least three people were shot at a business in Phoenix, Arizona. “We don’t believe it was a random act,” Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson told KTVK. “There…
Christie: NRA is ‘reprehensible’ for targeting Obama’s daughters
At a press conference on Thursday, Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey blasted the National Rifle Association for airing a commercial about President Barack Obama’s daughters. “To talk about the president’s children or any public official’s children who have, not by their own choice, but by requirement, protection and…
Parody: NRA urges members to ‘live in fear’
In a video published Thursday, the funnymakers over at “Funny or Die” took on the National Rifle Association’s “stand and fight” ad as only satirists can. “Are the president’s kids more important than yours?” a narrator asks. “Of course they are, but anyway. Why is he skeptical about putting armed…
Maddow on new NRA ads: Trolling a key aspect of conservative media
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said the National Rifle Association was simply “trolling” with its latest ads, a tactic employed throughout the conservative sphere. “Trolling is a key part of the conservative-entertainment/media business model,” she said. “These guys say stuff all the time that they do…
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