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‘Dangerous and wrong.' NRA slams U.S. attorney's response to Minneapolis shooting
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Good god the NRA is such a BS organization.
On one end they are yelling at one politician for saying, bringing a gun to a protest has a chance of giving them an excuse to shoot you. Which is objectively what just fricking happened, and good grief Bill Essayli's backtrack of it is... almost worse.
"I never said it's legally justified to shoot law-abiding concealed carriers. My comment addressed agitators approaching law enforcement with a gun and refusing to disarm"
Good fucking grief... The man wasn't an agitator... he didn't "refuse to disarm". He got the shit kicked out of him for trying to help a woman up, before they spotted the gun, disarmed him themselves and then executed him.
Key takeaways from the actual incident.
If you concealed carry. You are morally and legally in the right to do so, but the untrained keystone cops of ice, might kill you, and it remains to be seen if there is any hope that they will be held accountable.
NRA almost wants to take the right side here... but of course "wait for the full investigation" is there way of saying "ok look this is exactly the situation we've been saying we're going to defend... but it's crimes by the republicans so... lets find a democrat we can try to blame and say nothing about the responsible concealed carry person that was just executed.
They damn well know there will never be any kind of investigation... they know damn well that the evidence we have right now put together by concerned citizens, is the only evidence that we will ever get. Besides the lies that the current administration is going to say on TV.
God fucking damn it, this is exactly what is happening. This whole situation is so fucked up that it's basically forcing even a corrupt organization like the NRA into the right position, yet they are still not able to do the right thing.
It just fully proves that Republicans NEVER argue in good faith. They have no morals, no convictions other than power at all costs.
Fucking evil.