The NRA likes to claim that it represents gun owners. But the truth is, it represents extreme positions more likely held by gun manufacturers than America’s responsible gun-owning families.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, one group of responsible gun owners is taking a stand against the NRA. The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show, in the wake of the tragic events at Sandy Hook, decided not to feature certain weapons at the event, including assault rifles.
This is their statement on their move:
As a hunting-focused event, we welcome exhibitors who wish to showcase products and firearms that serve the traditional needs of the sport. Clearly, we strongly support the 2nd Amendment. However, this year we have made the decision not to include certain products that in the current climate may attract negative attention that would distract from the strong focus on hunting and fishing at this family-oriented event and possibly disrupt the broader positive experience of our guests.
This set off an angry reaction by the NRA, which decided to pull out of the event altogether.
This move by this hunting show against the NRA could be the start of a movement, where responsible gun owners and hunters stand up to the group’s extreme views.
I posted my thanks on The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show’s Facebook page. Please support their brave action and do the same.
https://www.facebook.com/EasternSports
Clearly, the Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show was reacting to organizations like yours, the general media and the Federal Government. From their announcement, it is apparent they are simply trying to avoid the kind of trouble your Brown Shirts will bring down on them with no hope of protection from the Fascists in charge of government. We will not go down easily, or at all, to you jack booted thugs.
wow larry, keep sounding like a paranoid lunatic and I will disarm you myself.
Yeah Larry. Keep talking like that. Because every you open your mouth and say something idiotic like that, ten people change their minds about gun control and sign on for more gun control.
Larry needs to look up the definition of “fascist.”
Just an update, the NRA led the charge of boycotting this show. 170+ participants also joined in and as of today Reed Exhibitions, the shows organizer, has cancelled the show. Looks like the NRA has more support than you think. I glad to see that the NRA and other pro Second Amendment groups have sent a message.
” I glad to see that the NRA and other pro Second Amendment groups have sent a message.”
Yeah, and the message is, “we want everyone to have any gun they want at any time for any reason, and anyone who dares to attempt the slightest deviance from that non-negotiable position will be destroyed”. Talk about fascist jack-boots…
No rational advocate on either side of this issue is trying to overturn the Second Amendment. The debate is about common sense and public safety. The fact is, we can take steps to further both while still honoring the Second Amendment, if only the gun lobby and its minions would back off even slightly from their extremist, absolutist position.
It’s sad really that 25 to 125 ish people die each year from mass killings but 3000+ die of accidental drownings. I ask you where is your passion for those people where is the push to lower that. death toll. I want to know why there aren’t tazers in the class rooms to that “trained” teachers don’t have a nonlethal way to defend our children. Its simple the teacher draws the taser from the wall and alarms sound and the location of the room is know from the tazer being drawn. other teachers draw and converge on the room. Duh.
It’s also sad that millions die from heart disease every year. Clearly, we need more doctors with heart disease. If we outlaw heart disease, only outlaws will have heart disease.
Doctors with heart disease? it seems they were not taking their own advice about health. I was trying to convey that 20 deaths are sensationalized and thousands are ignored.
“It’s sad really that 25 to 125 ish people die each year from mass killings but 3000+ die of accidental drownings.”
Wow. Good point! I can only imagine how many more would have died at Sandy Hook or the Aurora theater if the shooters had been armed with squirt guns instead of assault weapons!
I wonder do you have anything constructive to say or are other peoples deaths beneath your notice.
You don’t think comparing drowning (accident, none intentional, with a substance that was not designed to kill people in the quickest and most efficient manner possible) with mass murders by assault weapons (deliberate, intentional, pre-meditated, with a weapon which is designed solely around the idea of killing mass numbers of human beings in the quickest, most efficient manner possible) was beneath respect for the murdered?
And tazers? Against an assault gun? Seriously?
Kudos for trying to think of solutions, but comparing accidental deaths with deliberate mass murder is not where you start.
Lets all wait until the next nutcase storms the next school and opens fire with a shotgun with extended magazine to carry more shells-Then all you liberal antigun idiots will rally to ban shotguns which will never happen anyways. Get to the root of the problem-It is the mentally ill people you need to watch out for. If there wasnt guns-Then they would use gasoline and propane tanks.Would you be lobbying against gas stations and u-haul propane refilling stations.I didnt think so so shut your pieholes right now and get a life!!
Don’t you think wanting to own a weapon designed solely to kill the most people in the quickest and most efficient manner possible IS a sign of mental illness?
Of course you don’t.
Another sign of mental illness would be dismissing reasonable gun regulation as taking away all your precious guns.
Another sign of mental illness is thinking that “well, since people will want to kill people anyway, let’s make it as easy as possible for them”.
And, by the way Proud NRA member, how do you feel about the NRA blocking each and every attempt to actually determine WHO might be mentally ill with background checks? Better yet, how do you feel about the big bad nasty government deciding that YOU need to be evaluated for your mental capabilities?
Or have you decided the way we can absolutely know that someone is mentally ill is after they have slaughtered children? A little late at that point.
Get a life? Why don’t you respect a life?
The deaths are preventable ,you absolute yourself by saying they are accidents. BUT, if the problem is ignored the next 3000+ deaths are on our hands. Which is little different than murder on a mass scale.
I have the solution that would provide the screening for the potential psychopaths we all want out of circulation and would protect the law abiding citizens who want to keep their constitutionally protected rights as gun owners. WE ALL take screenings and background checks and those found unfit would be locked up. I’m for it if we don’t have to trample the Constitution. People kill people anyway they can, history has shown that and all you have to do is look into it to see it’s true. Explosives and fire show a higher kill percentage in mass killings than guns. Just remember anytime you see a commercial saying save the children and change the channel, and then one of those children dies, we caused it through inaction. The difference between you and me? I don’t lie to myself about it when I channel surf.