NRA Tries to Monetize the Latest Shooting As the Grim Task of Burying the Victims Begins

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As the grim task of burying the victims begins, the NRA is already making their move to monetize the tragedy.

As vigils and funerals continue for the victims of the deadliest shooting at a U.S. high school, NRA board member and gun lobbyist Charles Cotton is working to pass a law that will fore guns into Texas schools and arm teachers.

Cotton is as reprehensible as the organization he represents. Cotton is known for having elevated the second amendment above humanity on a regular basis.

There is no low for this man when it comes to greedily pushing for gun sales. He blames victims for being shot and killed, says he might need to put a bullet in a Democratic representative’s child, whines about his “way of life” (aka, swinging a gun around to make up for you know what) being threatened after Sandy Hook, accuses people who want common sense gun regulation of being self-serving as he pushes to sell more guns for the gun manufacturing lobby that is the NRA and is generally hyperbolic and out of bounds in reaction to anyone suggesting common sense gun control like keeping terrorists from being able to buy guns legally.

Let this not be confused with people being righteously angry and perhaps hyperbolic in reaction to yet another slaughter of innocent children because our country worships at the altar of the NRA’s money. These two things are not the same.

Here are just a few examples from the link:

On June 18, 2015, Cotton discussed a mass shooting that took place a day earlier at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on his Texas CHL blog. Writing about South Carolina state Senator Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, one of nine people killed in the shooting, Cotton said, “[Senator Pinckney] voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.”

2015-06-18
In February 2015, Cotton took to an online forum for Texas concealed handgun permit holders to comment about a bill offered in the Texas House of Representatives by Rep. Alma Allen (D-131st) that would prohibit corporal punishment in schools. “I’m sick of this woman and her ‘don’t touch my kid regardless what he/she did or will do again’ attitude,” wrote Cotton. “Perhaps a good paddling in school may keep me from having to put a bullet in him later.”

2015-02-08
Cotton returned from a winter 2013 meeting of the NRA Board of Directors and described the Obama administration’s support for gun reform in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in the following terms: “Americans are not facing merely a legislative battle, but a war on our very culture and way of life.”

2008-12-15
Cotton posted to his Texas CHL Blog one day after a mass shooting at Northern Illinois University that left five people dead and 21 injured. Writing about comments that U.S. Senator Barack Obama had made about the shooting, Cotton observed, “There it is again; ‘subject to common-sense regulation.’ Senator Obama, you cannot hide from your record opposing Second Amendment rights and Americans are not going to be fooled by buzz phrases. Your motives are clear, your rhetoric is unconvincing and you owe it to the American public to abandon self-serving, politically expedient buzz phrases. Americans know you support laws that would deprive them of the right to own and use firearms for self-defense and sporting purposes, so be intellectually honest enough to admit it.”

The NRA pushed for armed guards to be at schools, but this school had an armed guard, according to the Florida sheriff. This is another way of saying that the NRA has not good ideas; but self-serving, money-generating ideas.

Their ideas are killers. Their ideas are kid-killers. They are kid-killers.

Seventeen people were murdered during the mass shooting on Wednesday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, and more than a dozen wounded. It is not self-serving to push for gun control; it is the only decent thing to do, and long past due.

The founders never promised gun manufacturers that they had a right to make money no matter how many people their greed killed. That is a big, disgusting, deadly lie.

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