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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Will the NRA back off their block on background checks? They pose as protecting the 2nd amendment. That is a lie. What they do is make it easy for criminals and the mentally ill to buy guns. 12 more citizens dead thanks to the NRA and their supporters.
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The NRA is not responsible for the killer in DC having legitimate military security clearance and ID, in spite of his long history of mental illness and criminal record and military discipline record (expunged).
"Alexis entered the Navy Yard with a valid pass, obtained through his work as a contractor, authorities said Tuesday afternoon. He was carrying a shotgun, purchased legally in Virginia. Alexis may also have obtained a handgun during the rampage, authorities said.
Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI’s Washington field office, said Alexis was not carrying an AR-15 assault rifle when he arrived, as had been previously reported by some news media."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...wpmk=MK0000203
Please don't blame the massacre on the NRA and not on the perpetrator and the people who gave him security clearance and ID. A no-gun zone like the navy yard probably had lots of trained active military and veterans who are highly qualified to have a weapon on them, but they did not. They were weaponless while trained and qualified to have a weapon to defend themselves. I'd imagine they were wishing they had a weapon to stop the bloodshed.
No-gun zones are easy pickin's for criminals with no regard for gun laws.