.@NRA declines to participate in town hall on gun violence with @POTUS https://t.co/rESUSLTUF6 pic.twitter.com/MFPlXZX776
— CNN (@CNN) January 6, 2016
But both tribes are intransigent, right? https://t.co/YpXjPKTbBE
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) January 6, 2016
Adam was discussing commentor Siubhan Duinne‘s hopeful proposal to this effect just last night — and he was right, alas. From the CNN article:
The nation’s largest gun rights organization declined Wednesday to send official representatives to a nationally televised town hall with President Barack Obama on gun violence — just days after the president reignited a discussion over this controversial topic.
“The National Rifle Association sees no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House,” NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told CNN, which is moderating the live town hall Thursday evening in Virginia. The NRA strengthened its comment after initially saying the White House had “organized” the event.
The NRA, the most influential gun rights group in terms of political persuasion and financial contributions, boasts a membership of about five million people….
… which the NRA consistently elides as ‘most Americans’, because who cares about the other 299,000,000 of us?
… On the overall issue of gun control, 48% of Americans support stricter laws, while 51% were opposed, according a CNN/ORC poll released last month….
Some of the groups invited to attend the town hall, which will feature direct audience questioning of the president, include Gun Owners of America, American Firearms Retailers Association, Everytown for Gun Safety and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, among others.
IIRC, Gun Owners of America are the people who think the NRA is too wishy-washy about every American’s absolute right to own as many semi-automatics, full automatics, tank-mounted artillery weapons and possibly suitcase nukes as “we” want, so it’s not like CNN was trying to load the dice.
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