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Originally Posted by blueash
Interesting Civil Discourse meeting. The speaker said he would accept expanded background checks. However he believed that the 2nd amendment meant that citizens have the right to possession of any arms including nuclear weapons! Only way to defend his home should the US military come after him was to have equal firepower. My point is that even those who have extreme views of arms can support background checks. Yet the NRA opposes it.
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WASHINGTON -- In May of 1999, under intense pressure following the Columbine High School massacre, National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre told Congress that the gun lobby supported instant background checks at gun shows. On Wednesday, back before the Senate Judiciary Committee following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, LaPierre uncomfortably withdrew his support for universal background checks.
LaPierre seemed a bit flustered this week under questioning by the senators for good reason. The NRA's earlier support for instant background checks was not just a line that LaPierre read to the Judiciary Committee 14 years ago. It was part of an advertising and public relations campaign that the NRA organized following the Columbine massacre to show it was sympathetic to changing gun laws, according to documents and interviews by The Huffington Post.