http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/25/how-the-nra-is-trying-to-clean-up-its-bizarre-m/200210
The National Rifle Association is trying to smooth over the extreme ideas presented in a recent video suggesting children should have to receive mandatory gun training "to advance to the next grade" by mischaracterizing the video and airing a deceptively cropped version of it on NRA News.
In a July 21 NRA News video titled "Everyone Gets A Gun," NRA News commentator Billy Johnson imagined a compulsory education system that would require children to become proficient with firearms, just like "reading and writing," even "if they didn't want to learn" as a requirement to advance in school:
JOHNSON: Gun policy driven by our need for guns would insist that we introduce young people to guns early and that we'd give them the skills to use firearms safely. Just like we teach them reading and writing, necessary skills. We would teach shooting and firearm competency. It wouldn't matter if a child's parents weren't good at it. We'd find them a mentor. It wouldn't matter if they didn't want to learn. We would make it necessary to advance to the next grade.
Johnson's suggestion children would have to become proficient with a gun to move on in school was widely ridiculed. Now the NRA is responding to critics with the misleading suggestion that Johnson was merely talking about the importance of teaching children gun safety.Unfortunately NRA News cut the video just before the most controversial part of his commentary, where Johnson said: "Just like we teach them reading and writing, necessary skills. We would teach shooting and firearm competency. It wouldn't matter if a child's parents weren't good at it. We'd find them a mentor. It wouldn't matter if they didn't want to learn. We would make it necessary to advance to the next grade."IMO teaching a kid gun safety is don't have one and don' tell kids how to be safe around a gun because kids are not like those who promote guns they are smarter than a fifth grader those who would sponsor does a sack of bricks come to mind?
the fact that after all the mass murders and tiny caskets now years later they want to try to clean up what was the pinnacle of their arrogance, must be some lost of members or sponsors or something cause believe me they care less than gnat crap about a kid dead by a gun. you don't be a hardcore zealot yesterday and willing to give up that status and all that money that comes with it today.
