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Glenn Beck tells the NRA: ‘I will not comply’ with new gun regulations
Clutching the shattered shell of a policeman’s sidearm, conservative guru Glenn Beck warned the National Rifle Association that a tyrannical US government is bent on taking their guns away. More than 70,000 members of the nation’s premier gun rights organization have flocked to Texas for the NRA’s annual meeting, hard…
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…
Protesters gather as NRA prepares for meeting in Texas
The National Rifle Association (NRA) opens its annual meeting in gun-friendly Texas on Friday with its leadership determined to fight off any fresh attempt to tighten the nation’s gun laws. More than 70,000 people are expected at the three-day gathering in Houston, taking place a little over two weeks after…
D.C. protesters target NRA and other gun lobbyists
Lobbyists in Washington have blood on their hands for helping the top US gun lobby derail President Barack Obama’s push for tougher gun laws, protesters said Thursday. Several dozen people gathered in McPherson Square, near the White House, at lunch hour to name and shame six lobbying firms which, they…
Connecticut sen. lashes out at NRA: What kind of liberty did Newtown kids have?
Connecticut Sen. Chris Brown (D) on Wednesday made an emotion plea on the Senate floor for lawmakers to come to an agreement and pass new gun control legislation following last year’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. “This country has gotten so callously used to gun violence,…
Expert warns against ‘blindly’ implementing NRA’s ‘superficially simple solution’
A report by three experts on school violence and criminal justice casts doubt on the National Rifle Association’s proposal to stop gun violence. The review article, published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice last month, examined the NRA’s proposal to prevent mass shootings by placing armed guards in every…
NRA literature discovered in Newtown shooter’s home
Update (below): NRA insists Lanza was not a member Literature distributed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) was discovered inside the home of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, police revealed Thursday in unsealed search warrant affidavits. One of the books removed from Lanza’s home is a spiral-bound volume titled, “NRA Guide…
The NRA Fights to Keep Guns in the Hands of Wife Beaters
Add another to the long list of things that the NRA considers less important than maintaining high profits for the gun industry: Preventing men from killing their wives after they’ve already been identified as a threat to do so. This article from the New York Times about the NRA’s dogged…
NRA’s silence on UN arms treaty surprises gun control supporters
Last year, Wayne LaPierre led the charge to kill the world’s first Arms Trade Treaty, but this time the NRA may be spread too thin The National Rifle Association is so tied up fighting new gun restrictions in the wake of the Newtown shooting that it has failed so far…
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Americans need to look at the pictures of the dead children of Newtown to see what the NRA really supports
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen “flirting” with a white woman in town, and for that he was mutilated and murdered at the age of fourteen. He was found with part of a…
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