NRA Blows Off Obama… Won’t Join in On Gun Regulation Talks
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 5:01 AM
The National Rifle Association told the administration to hold their gun regulation talks this week without them.
The New York Times reported:
More than two months after the Tucson shootings, the administration is calling together both the gun lobby and gun safety groups to find common ground. But President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further gun control legislation, aides say, and the nation’s major gun rights group is snubbing the invitation.
On Tuesday, officials at the Justice Department will meet with gun control advocates in the first of what will be a series of meetings over the next two weeks with people on different sides of the issue, including law enforcement, retailers and manufacturers, to seek agreement on possible legislative or administrative actions.
The effort follows Mr. Obama’s call, in a column on Sunday in a Tucson newspaper, to put aside “stale policy debates” and begin “a new discussion” on ways to better enforce and strengthen existing laws to keep mentally unstable, violent and criminal people from getting guns.But the National Rifle Association, for decades the most formidable force against proposals to limit gun sales or ownership, is refusing to join the discussion — possibly dooming it from the start, given the lobby’s clout with both parties in Congress. Administration officials had indicated they expected that the group would be represented at a meeting, perhaps on Friday.
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jimg commented:
If I’m the NRA? (and I am)
Good luck getting 218 votes in the House.
Until then? Bite me.
Next.
Militant Conservative commented:
I’m an NRA life member.
Obama just found the group that will tell the ” boy” that he is out of his league.
Powder is dry.
mike123 commented:
Good for the NRA. I’m glad to see they have decided to fight for our rights.
BigJake commented:
Really want to “strengthen existing laws to keep mentally unstable, violent and criminal people from getting guns”?
Take them away from the union members!
Granny commented:
IWon WTF has amply demonstrated over the last couple of years that participating in a “meeting” of this sort is more than a bit like “‘come into my parlor’ said the spider to the fly.” Good for the NRA for seeing this for what it is and refusing to play.
Trialdog commented:
Close the ATF-Mexican Drug Cartel Loophole. (Tip: You’ll find it in Holder’s office.)
RedBeard commented:
Exactly, Granny. The only reason Obama wanted the NRA to participate was because he hoped the organization would give in to more incremental restrictions on our rights. Good for the NRA for seeing through this subterfuge and refusing to be duped.
Don Gwinn commented:
The NRA realizes that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose by sitting down for those “discussions.” We “compromised” for decades, and for the last couple we realized that all the compromises had involved gun owners giving things up and the other side getting what it wanted; no compromise at all. Now we’re the bad guys because we stopped caving to that kind of “compromise.”
Oh, well.
alwyr commented:
Silly me! Here I was thinking about the countless REAL issues Mr. Teleprompter SHOULD be addressing. I guess it’s a LOT easier moderating meetings which no one attends
Cargosquid commented:
Notice the attempt at re-branding. Obama used the same terms in his speech. Gun restriction groups are now “gun safety” groups.
I wonder how that works since these people don’t use guns.
squeaky commented:
obama – once an agitator always an agitator.
Ang commented:
#10 Very observant! Although, the left is very predictible, now watch them squeeeeelllllll.
Andreas K. commented:
Gun regulation. It works so fine in the UK!
Wait, no, it doesn’t. The country with most violent crime in the world is… the United Kingdom. More and more bobbies are starting to carry because they get shot at.
But it’s working in Germany!
Well, if you consider an assault on a woman every four minutes as “working as planned”, then yes.
Sorry, gun regulation doesn’t work.
squeaky commented:
once bulling the government to provide more benefits to the people he represented – he is now the government. the fox is now in the hen house.
tarpon commented:
Sensible gun laws, sensible to who, tyrants?
Sort of like sensible offshore drilling regulations, or sensible Obamacare laws …
Muffin commented:
Impeach the incredible golfing kid.
Andreas K. commented:
You need to read the comments on the NYT. The amount of knowledge, or better said utter lack of knowledge, about guns by some posters is amazing.
Warthog commented:
But President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further gun control legislation, aides say
Obama is amazing! I mean, now does he manage to swing a golf club that way without a spine? It’s like finding a jellyfish out on the the back nine sinking birdies.
Hahahahaha! He’s voting “present” on this. He somehow imagines that he’ll sit the pro-gun rights and the anti-gun rights together and magic will happen.
Wadda’ maroon.
RedBeard commented:
Andreas, most of the Times’ reporters would need a lesson to understanding that the wooden part of a rifle or shotgun goes against the shoulder, while the pointy end goes away from the operator.
Liberal reporters offering opinions on firearms is like having Jethro Bodine advising on brain surgery.
JPL17 commented:
#17 Andreas K — I think I’d rather stick pins in my eye!
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