By SJ Otto
I have never liked the NRA (National Riffle Association). That is not because I am against guns, owning them or even carrying them. But The NRA is an organization that clearly favors Republicans and believes that gun rights are more important than anything. If a person is mentally ill, the NRA protects them. There are no gun laws that the NRA approves of. At some point in time, they may support the rights of kindergarten children to carry guns.
Also, the NRA wields a lot of power. No Republican dares to oppose any position of the NRA. Some Democrats have challenged the NRA and they have found their careers challenged by this very powerful organization.
So is it any surprise that Ilhan Omar got slammed for blaming NRA for Virginia shooting that left 12 people dead?[1] The NRA may not be directly responsible for these killings, but they have clearly influence this event and many others over the last several years. There are a lot of young people who are not just goingto let the Republicans and the NRA do nothing about all the school shootings. Their time is coming. Young people today are going to demand changes at some point in time.
I remember when I sat on the Citizen Participation Organization, of Wichita
The point I’m making is that we were responding to a city ordinance that restricted gun sales in the city of Wichita
So I now realize what Representative Ilhan Omar was up against when she criticized the NRA.Fox News[2] posted an article, “Ilhan Omar slammed for blaming NRA for Virginia
As with many conservative organizations, the Fox News article portrayed Omar as a simpleton who got all of her information wrong:
“National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch ripped Rep. Ilhan Omar after she blamed I the gun rights group for the deaths inside a Virginia Beach municipal building on Friday.
The embattled Minnesota Democrat took a swipe at the NRA just hours after a disgruntled city employee went on a shooting spree that left 12 people dead and four more injured……
“I am outraged and heartbroken,” she wrote in a tweet. “How much longer will we ignore the pain of our communities? We need to immediately confront the power of the NRA and end the epidemic of gun violence in this country.”
Of course I agree with her. Only conservative Republicans would disagree with this. As we can imagine, other conservative news sites attacked Omar for blaming the NRA. In an article called “Here Comes The Blame Game: Ilhan Omar Wants To 'Confront The NRA' Over Virginia Beach Shooting,” for the site called Townhall, Beth Baumann said:|
“Sounds like Omar missed the memo: the gunman purchased his legally. He went through a background check, the very same background check anti-gunners are continually saying don't take place. The gunman had nothing in his background, as far as we know, to indicate that he would carry out this kind of attack. Not only that but suppressors (or "silencers" as gun control advocates like to call them) are already regulated. People have to pay a $200 fee, file an application, go through a background check, wait nine months to a year and then maybe they'll get approved for one. They want a ban on "high-capacity" magazines but that didn't stop other mass shootings from taking place in gun control heavy states, like California
These authors all act as if Omar is a complete idiot who knows nothing about the things she says. And yet Omar says what a lot of us are saying: “That the NRA has stopped any changes in gun laws—good or bad.” The NRA has consistently prevented ANY kinds of gun laws that might have changed or influenced this event (or others like it). Since this last year alone there have been an estimated 149 killed in mass shootings such as the Virginia
Many of us back Omar for what she has said: which we feel is the truth.
[2]Fox News, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-slammed-nra-virginia-shooting