07-05-2017, 11:34 AM
From Sen. Chris Murphy:
Eric -
We have to talk about this video the NRA released last week.
As an organization, the NRA likes to claim that they are “freedom’s safest place,” that the “Second Amendment is there to protect the First.” This video exposes those talking points for the hollow slogans they have always been.
Think about the top “villains” in their video: the press and people protesting the president. This video is a hairs breadth away from asking NRA members to take up arms against those who are exercising the very First Amendment rights they claim to defend.
Let me be more to the point: the NRA exists to sell guns. They are an extension of the gun industry. All the mass shootings, suicides, domestic violence fatalities, and accidental deaths of children are just the cost of doing business for them.
For years, the NRA all but said that President Obama was coming to take away people’s guns. Sales skyrocketed as a result. But now, their guy is in office and fewer and fewer people are buying guns.
The NRA now has to find new ways of scaring people into buying guns. This is what this video is all about. And we have to respond.
Every best wish,
Chris Murphy
U.S. Senator, Connecticut
Eric -
We have to talk about this video the NRA released last week.
As an organization, the NRA likes to claim that they are “freedom’s safest place,” that the “Second Amendment is there to protect the First.” This video exposes those talking points for the hollow slogans they have always been.
Think about the top “villains” in their video: the press and people protesting the president. This video is a hairs breadth away from asking NRA members to take up arms against those who are exercising the very First Amendment rights they claim to defend.
Let me be more to the point: the NRA exists to sell guns. They are an extension of the gun industry. All the mass shootings, suicides, domestic violence fatalities, and accidental deaths of children are just the cost of doing business for them.
For years, the NRA all but said that President Obama was coming to take away people’s guns. Sales skyrocketed as a result. But now, their guy is in office and fewer and fewer people are buying guns.
The NRA now has to find new ways of scaring people into buying guns. This is what this video is all about. And we have to respond.
Every best wish,
Chris Murphy
U.S. Senator, Connecticut