While the nation wrestled with the aftermath of a shooting in Colorado that left 12 people dead, a Twitter account for the National Rifle Association had this to say:
"Good morning, shooters. Happy Friday! Weekend plans?"
That tweet was posted at 9:20 a.m. ET on Friday by an account for "American Rifleman," the official NRA journal. The group, which advocates for gun owners, appeared to have been pulled down from the Internet as of about 12:30 p.m. ET Friday.
. . . "A single individual, unaware of events in Colorado, tweeted a comment that is being completely taken out of context," NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said in a comment issued to CNN.
~ CNN News
One of the guns used by the shooter was an AK47 that was banned in 1994. The NRA saw to it that the ban expired in 2004.
The NRA is the best friend the killer's instinct ever had.
. . . Toys are regulated with greater care and safety concerns than guns.
. . . So why do we always acts so surprised? Violence is our alter-ego. Violence is our alter ego, wired into our Stone Age brains, so intrinsic its toxic eruptions no longer shock, except momentarily when we hear of a mass shooting like this latest in Colorado. But this, too, will pass and the nation of the short attention span quickly finds the next thing to divert us from the hard realities of America in 2012.
. . . The NRA is the enabler of death. Paranoid. Delusional. And as venomous as a scorpion. . . . The National Rifle Association has turned the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution into a cruel Hoax. A cruel and deadly hoax.
~ Bill Moyers via Raw Story
Every day in America, 34 innocent people are murdered with a gun; that’s like having a Virginia Tech massacre every day, only worse. It adds up to 12,000 people a year. Imagine losing the entire Freshman and Sophomores classes at Virginia Tech. It’s unthinkable. But it’s happening, year after year. And Washington just shrugs.
The great tragedy is that all those murders don’t have to happen. We can stop them. Not by banning guns; the Second Amendment must be respected. All it requires is for Congress to do what the NRA says it wants: enforce the laws on the books.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Daily Beast
I am sure the NRA is holding an emergency meeting to try and figure out just exactly what to do about assault rifles.
— Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) July 21, 2012
Dear Right Wing NRA Pals: Obama's not coming for your guns, but thanks for letting us know y'all are the real victims here.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 21, 2012
I'm ex-#NRA. I quit after decades when they went from defending my rights to defending any gun, anywhere, anytime, anybody. #NotAfraidofNRA
— ruthannharnisch (@ruthannharnisch) July 21, 2012
"I hope that no one forgets how terrific guns are, and how they enrich our lives." – NRA executive vice president onion.com/Qbzy4i
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 21, 2012
We've allowed the NRA to control the debate over guns. That has to end. Responsible gun owners need to end it.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) July 21, 2012
I think that this tragedy in Colorado will go down in History as the straw that broke the peoples spirits enough to throw the GOP & NRA out
— BayonneBernie (@bayonnebernie) July 21, 2012
Will #NRA have the decency to, at least, try to explain their position on massacres? I understand their position on guns, but not on tragedy
— Elizabeth West (@Limeylizzie) July 21, 2012
If you support the @NRA @NRANews you support domestic, lone-wolf terrorism and are a traitor. There are more of us than you #theatershooting
— Anti-NRA Militias (@AntiNRAMilitias) July 21, 2012
If the NRA wants the weaponry used by the CO shooter to stay legal, shouldn't they pay for the armed guards we'll need everywhere?
— Patrick Duncan (@patrickcduncan) July 21, 2012
I'm sure the NRA will argue if everyone in that theatre was armed, this would never have happened. Oy!
— Nelson Branco (@nelliebranco) July 21, 2012
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