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spanone

(135,830 posts)
Wed Jan 6, 2016, 05:25 PM Jan 2016

NRA declines to participate in Obama gun town hall


Washington (CNN)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.

A CNN spokesperson said that it was the network, not the White House, that proposed the idea of a town hall on guns, and noted the audience would be evenly divided between organizations that support the Second Amendment including NRA members as well as groups that back gun regulation.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/politics/nra-obama-gun-town-hall/index.html

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randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. I am not surprised what is now a white supremacy organization is not willing to cooperate with
Wed Jan 6, 2016, 05:28 PM
Jan 2016

the non white Prez

RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
3. NRA is only interested in gun and ammo sales, they don't give a fuck who gets killed!
Wed Jan 6, 2016, 05:35 PM
Jan 2016

It's all about sales and $$$$$$$$$$$'s. F'en NRA should be shutdown! They feed the hostilities in the US!

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