What the NRA should say.

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/14/five-minute-nra-speech-that-would-change-gun-control-debate-forever/

 

Scott Pinsker is a marketing and publicity expert who
writes occasionally for Fox News Opinion. This is his vision of a speech
he would like to see delivered by leaders at the National Rifle
Association. It has not been delivered by the NRA.

Greetings.
My name is Wayne LaPierre, and I’m the executive vice president of the
National Rifle Association. After the national tragedy at Sandy Hook
Elementary School, it was my hope that Red America and Blue America
would finally come together and try to solve a serious problem, because
protecting our children from violent madmen isn’t a conservative
position or a liberal position; it’s a common-sense position.

Sadly,
instead of offering new solutions, the same anti-gun zealots who’ve
always hated the Second Amendment have politicized the deaths of
kindergartners, adopting the Rahm Emanuel tactic of “Never letting a
good crisis go to waste.” Anti-gun newspapers have even published the
names and private addresses of law-abiding gun-owners – something they
would NEVER do to sex offenders, drug addicts, wife-beaters, AIDS
victims, welfare recipients or women who’ve had an abortion – and
rightly so.

The Sandy Hook tragedy, the Virginia Tech
shooting, the Aurora “Batman” shooting, the Tucson shooting – all of the
killers were mentally unstable young men who were prescribed
mind-altering psychiatric drugs.

The NRA tried to help: Since we
protect our president, vice president, governors, senators, judges,
banks, hospitals, office buildings and jewelry stores with armed guards,
why does it make sense to protect our schoolchildren with a small sign
that says, “This Is a Gun Free Zone” – and then hope that someone with a
gun can get there quickly if there’s an emergency? Why do we have armed
guards at middle school and high school football games – but not at the
actual middle schools or high schools?

But this still doesn’t do
enough to protect our children. The time for partisanship is over; now
is the time for action. And that’s why the NRA is requesting the
assistance of the ACLU.

The Sandy Hook tragedy, the Virginia Tech
shooting, the Aurora “Batman” shooting, the Tucson shooting – all of
the killers had something in common: They were all mentally unstable
young men who were prescribed mind-altering psychiatric drugs.

These
killers didn’t purchase their guns illegally, or watch Fox News, or
circumvent background checks by attending gun shows. They didn’t have
prior convictions or troubling police records. That’s not the common
denominator. The common denominator is that these young men were sick –
and everyone knew it.

The ACLU has done more than any other organization to protect the legal rights of mentally sick people.

This is a fact.

Because
of the ACLU, mentally sick people can refuse medical treatment or
psychiatric care, even when their mental condition has left them
homeless and penniless. Even in situations like Adam Lanza, the
20-year-old Sandy Hook killer, whose own mother, according to reports,
was unable to mandate medical treatment for her son.

The NRA
doesn’t hate the mentally ill. They deserve our compassion and our help.
But sick young men have spilled far too much innocent blood. This
simply cannot continue.

The NRA is hereby inviting the ACLU to
join us on a study to find common-sense solutions that will prevent
violent madmen from harming our children. And then together, it’s our
hope that the NRA and the ACLU will offer these solutions directly to
President Obama.

This won’t be easy. It’s anathema to the NRA to
deny any law-abiding American the right to bear arms, just as it’s
anathema to the ACLU to deny any American the same civil liberties of
his neighbors. But despite our personal biases, there must be a solution
that’s better than the status quo!

An inspirational politician
once declared that there isn’t a Red America and a Blue America, or a
black America and a white America – there’s the United States of
America. As Americans, let’s come together, rise above the rhetoric, and
actually do something that protects our children.

Thank you.

[Madd Mike #8595]

I like what the NRA is doing and saying these day

 

let that speech writer go on fox and do the speech himself

just an idea