{"id":9788,"date":"2012-12-18T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T22:11:11","slug":"nra-breaks-post-newton-silence-prepared-to-offer-meaningful-contributions-to-help-make-sure-this-never-happens-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9788","title":{"rendered":"NRA Breaks Post-Newtown Silence: ‘Prepared to Offer Meaningful Contributions to Help Make Sure This Never Happens Again’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After just over four days, the terrorist-enabling<\/a> NRA con-men<\/a> have decided to finally break their complete silence<\/a> following last Friday’s mass shooting which killed 20 children and 7 adults<\/a> in Newtown, CT. The killer used assault weapons and high-capacity magazines the NRA had long fought to make available to just about anybody<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a terse statement released this afternoon, the group’s leadership claim they are “prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.”<\/p>\n

While their claim is welcome, it remains to be seen if a) they actually mean it and b) if they will actually call for gun safety policies supported by the vast majority of their membership<\/a>, or if they will continue serving only as mouth-pieces for the U.S. arms industry. <\/p>\n

The statement notes the group will hold a news conference this Friday, December 21 — the Friday before Christmas — which Washington Post’s<\/i> Greg Sargent aptly describes<\/a> as “the ultimate Friday news dump.”<\/p>\n

Here’s their complete statement today…<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 12\/21\/12:<\/b><\/i> The NRA held it’s “major news conference” today, announcing their “major contributions”. It didn’t go well…<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After just over four days, the terrorist-enabling NRA con-men have decided to finally break their complete silence following last Friday’s mass shooting which killed 20 children and 7 adults in Newtown, CT. The killer used assault weapons and high-capacity magazines the NRA had long fought to make available to just about anybody. In a terse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,118,551,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-connecticut","category-nra","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}