FAIRFAX, Va. – -(Ammoland.com)- The following statement was issued this morning by Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Rifle Association of America:
“On behalf of the more than five million members of the National Rifle Association, and especially on behalf of our members from the law enforcement community, I want to express the deep anguish all of us feel for the heroic Dallas law enforcement officers who were killed and wounded, as well as to those who so bravely ran toward danger to defend the city and the people of Dallas.
With heavy hearts, NRA members honor their heroism and offer our deepest condolences to all of their families.”
About the National Rifle Association
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Ensuring people are mentally fit to own a gun makes sense; sane people, you can keep your guns.
We’re talking 8000 unjustified homicides a year. it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the countless other problems we have in our country of over 322 MILLION people. We DON’T have a problem with “gun violence” or “bat violence”, or “knife violence”, or really any other kind of violence. We rank 111 in the WORLD for murder, and only double what Europe’s per-capita violent crime rate is. And before you go off spouting that misinformed and illogical old chestnut, “..but if we save just ONE life…”, realize that between 500,000 and 3 million times a year, people use firearms… Read more »
There will always be a problem, of humans versus humans. Because we forget we are an animal and fight for sex, family, food and territory. Now, what makes us different than other species is that we kill because we can. If we did it on a daily basis, hand to hand, we would be more wary about fighting. But a gun just makes it easier. And while humans can “kill” with words by destroying the heart and spirit of another, and we train and kill with our hands and most any item we can reach, guns allow us distance, speed,… Read more »
NRA is completely to blame for what happened in Dallas, and elsewhere. The Fraternal Order of Police came out long ago calling for gun control. Police are scared to death of the ridicuulous proliferation of weapons that EVERYONE can access. The problem isn’t racism – it is the NRA.
Are you talking auto,plane.medical.I know it’s not guns,moron.get your facts right.
Know what? Until he knows (like most common sense-oriented, thoughtful individuals) that our President, liberal Democrats and the Democratic Party, as well as, the weak kneed RINOS of the Republican Party continue to incite these types of acts through their failure to applaud the rule of law while placating the whiners, do nothing’s, and takers, saying it is “the establishment” or “the man” or some other entity to blame for their inability or unwillingness to make the routine sacrifices we all make daily to succeed and be productive, law abiding citizens of this great Country. Until this President and his… Read more »
How many deaths will it take till he knows, that too many people have died??