The NRA gets back on point
by digby
Just wow:
“And he 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.”
That is an NRA board member talking about one of the Charleston massacre victims, State Senator Reverend Clementa Pinckney. Seriously. They are blaming him for the massacre. Evidently they are sticking with their story that if only people had been armed at their prayer meeting they could have seen this coming and taken out the shooter before he could kill anyone. Clairvoyance comes with concealed carry, you see. Turns average Americans into comic book super heroes with the ability to read minds and stop time. So if those people had been armed the only person who would have been shot and killed was the "bad guy."
The idea that being armed will stop gun violence is ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that I'm pretty sure what he's suggesting --- that black people arm themselves and start shooting white people who threaten them -- isn't what his NRA constituency has in mind. They seem pretty clear on the fact that the black guys are always the "bad guys."
I don't know how much more of this fatuous garbage I can take.
