Three days after a teenager slaughtered 19 fourth-graders and two teachers in Uvalde, the loyal people of the gun are coming to Houston, writes the Editorial Board.
No organization in America has done more to delude Americans that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of gun rights is so rigidly absolute that even the most common-sense gun rulesare verboten.
We considered calling on convention organizers to scrap their program and replace it with three days of discussion, reflection and sober reassessment in an effort to seek solutions to a grave national crisis — a crisis for which the NRA bears out-sized responsibility. Sensible gun reforms would be part of those discussions, but so would many other aspects of our violence-drenched society. Still, that was never going to happen, either.a cavalcade of craven politicians, including U.S. Sen.
in campaign spending but from its formidable constituency of dues-paying members, which the NRA tallies at 5 million people. They include ordinary Americans with a fondness of hunting and sport and some others who see firearms as necessary to their personal safety. Thus was born the modern gun culture, one that has metastasized into a nationwide gun obsession . In league with gun manufacturers, whose motives are naturally profit-minded, and other free-spending gun rights lobbying organizations, the NRA has helped create a death-dealing culture that has no counterpart anywhere else in the world.In so doing, they’ve not only betrayed their safety-minded roots but actively thwarted policies to make our society safer.
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