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RSS FeedsAfter Trump´s endorsement, the NRA denounces the FBI, calls Democrats `saboteurs´ and says reporters `love mass shootings´
(The Star Religion)

 
 

22 february 2018 20:35:46

 
After Trump´s endorsement, the NRA denounces the FBI, calls Democrats `saboteurs´ and says reporters `love mass shootings´
(The Star Religion)
 


WASHINGTON—Emerging from their defensive crouch, officials from the National Rifle Association, America’s top gun-rights lobby group, went on the attack Thursday with a series of wild claims — accusing members of the media of being happy about mass shootings and the Democratic Party of being “infested” with America-hating “socialists” and “saboteurs” looking to seize control of the country.NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch and executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre, both known for inflammatory rhetoric, delivered consecutive speeches filled with conspiratorial and aggressive assertions at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington — just before a speech by Vice-President Mike Pence.Loesch accused the reporters in the room and the companies they work for of secretly enjoying massacres like the mass shooting in which 17 people were killed at a Florida high school last week.“I’ll say it really slowly so all the people on the platform in the back can hear me loud and clear: Many in legacy media love mass shootings,” she said, emphasizing each word. “You guys love it. Now, I’m not saying that you love the tragedy. But I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media in the back.”Her remark was roundly condemned by members of the media. “I’ve covered a lot of mass shootings, and no, journalists don’t love them. May God have mercy on your soul, you horrible person,” television host Soledad O’Brien wrote on Twitter.The NRA had remained quiet in the days following the Florida massacre even as gun control advocates seized public attention. Their temporary silence was “absolutely standard practice,” said Robert Spitzer, a professor and chair of political science at SUNY Cortland who has written five books on gun policy: the organization typically adopts a &# ...


 
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