NRA Response Formula “1. That the Second Amendment guarantees the right to ‘keep and bear arms,’ and the Supreme Court has recently reaffirmed that this right applies to private individuals and not just to organized militias (as referenced in the Constitution), but also to private individual citizens. 2. The organization lays the blame for gun violence on criminals and the producers of Hollywood movies and video games and the failures of the mental health system. 3. It reminds that it is not possible to legislate away the evil in the world. Finally, and repeatedly, the NRA repeats its mantra: ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’ Or, as LaPierre put it Sunday, ‘It comes down to ... if your glass breaks in the middle of the night, there is not a government authority on the planet that substitutes for your right to own a firearm.’” (according to NPR) |