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Gun Control Reform Activism

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applegrove

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Sun Oct 4, 2015, 11:42 PM Oct 2015

NRA is not your friend [View all]

NRA is not your friend

By Times of Trenton Guest Columnist, William Gage

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/10/nra_is_not_your_friend_opinion.html

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After the Sandy Hook massacre, the NRA proposed legislation to put armed guards in all schools, rather than to keep guns out of the hands of psychos. They said "The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
And guess what? About half the members of the NRA's board of directors are also on the boards of directors of several gun manufacturers.

You see, by saying that, what they REALLY hoped for was to sell guns to not only all those terrified citizens, but also to all those guards.

YOU do the math: crazed gun massacres are good for business.

Oh, and by the way, who would pay all those guards? Taxpayers, not the NRA. You know, the same taxpayers that pay for all the uninsured gunshot victims at America's ERs.



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