VPC to Redskins: Stay Away From the NRA

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Although postseaon baseball is the current craze (especially for this guy), the Violence Policy Center has its sights set on another sport and team entirely. The NRA is planning a “charitable shooting event” with the Washinton Redskins football team’s Charitable Foundation, and the VPC has sent a letter to the team asking them to withdraw from the fundraiser. Mostly because letting the NRA run a fundraiser for victims of gun violence is like letting Charles Manson set up a benefit dinner for victims of serial killers.

The letter notes that the National Rifle Association is currently lobbying Congress to overturn Washington, D.C.’s gun laws. The bills to repeal the District of Columbia’s gun laws promoted by the NRA would: legalize handguns as well as semiautomatic assault weapons and 50 caliber sniper rifles; allow any person to carry, openly or concealed, loaded handguns and other concealable firearms in houses, places of business, or other land “possessed by that person”; and, severely weaken the District’s ban on armor-piercing handgun ammunition.

Citing the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation’s dedication to the “health and wellness” of youth, and the price exacted on D.C. children and teens by gun violence, the letter urges the Redskins and the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation to end all participation in this event, stating, “The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation’s involvement with an organization whose mission is to repeal Washington D.C.’s gun laws cannot be reconciled with the mission of the foundation.”

Don’t get us wrong, charity’s great, but this is sheer hypocrisy by the NRA, helped by the Redskins’ foundation. VPC sent us a copy of the letter, and you can read the whole thing after the jump.

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and the Redskins are still using the name redskins (though they say Indians don't mind)

“charitable shooting event” charitable doesn't seem to go with shooting.

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