After Connecticut School Shooting, NRA Ready To Make 'Meaningful Contributions'
Virginia-headquartered group issues a statement about preventing future tragedies.
After days of silence, the National Rifle Association has released a statement on the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn., saying it will make "meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again." In the release, the organization begins to explain its silence, saying: "Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting." Critics had called out the group in the days following the December 14 shooting: As citizens and legislators began to fall on either side of a debate about what, if at all, should be done about gun laws, many wondered why the group was absent from the conversation. Patch submitted a media …
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Nana
12:14 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
I believe that if the teachers and authority figures in that school were aloud to have a gun it would of shut this down long before the death toll reached the massive amount it did.My heart goes out to the families who lost their babies & I cannot even come close to feeling their pain, that's why it's so important to shut the idiots down before they have this chance ever again! I would want my … more ›