Originally Posted by
pbjosh
We? You dismissed it. You dismissing something doesn't make it so.
It only should have taken one call. The 'Lack of action' was not on the NRA's part. It wasn't their job. The job, the people paid to do it, was the Sheriff's office, and the FBI.
In fact, there was exactly one call that was taken that was totally specific, and the FBI dropped the ball. There were over 30 calls to the paid Sheriff's department, which resulted in them going to the property. And not doing their job.
There is a history of the department not stopping crime in the area, even running a quota system that limited the amount of times they could arrest a HS student so they would get better rating for the area.
The people paid by the taxpayer, (including you since the FBI was directly involved) had a job to be there.
The 4 officers at the school were also paid to rush in and confront the shooter. That literally was their job. And a different police department showed up and then did their job.
The good guys with guns are obviously NOT the Sheriff's department. It might have been one teacher allowed to conceal carry that could have stopped them. Right after this, when the local NRA trained gun safety trainers offered to train teachers for free? They were overwhelmed.
Teachers want the ability to protect themselves.
And the people the US government is paying to protect us?
They are NOT doing their job.
Yet you would say this is the NRA's fault. Still. Because they want to allow an individual the right to protect themselves, to train to use a firearm safely?
No, you want talking points? The blame for the NRA is a false front. They are the blame shifting for a Sheriff WHO WAS PAID to protect those kids, and who didn't. Sheriff Israel is to blame for not stopping the kid 2 years ago, for not confronting him then, nor for sending his people in to stop this. This is his responsibility.
You can not find a more responsible group than that local law enforcement in not stopping the kid to begin with, and from not stopping him when he got there.
Last week an active shooter went to a school in Anchorage Alaska, close to where I grew up. The police stopped him at the door. Talked him down, and stopped him from entering. Not a single shot was fired. The police did their job. Well. That is what Sheriff Israel didn't do.
Blaming the NRA, who's job is not to 'Serve and Protect', who is not paid by us to protect our community or our kids, and simply trains people in safe use of firearms, and also tries to protect our constitutional right, is blame shifting. It kool-aid drinking, gaslighting bullshit.
Don't try to throw your empty cup at me and call that a win in this argument.