So how long before the NRA holds a rally

[JNelson6563]

in the region of the latest killing spree? Any guesses?

Julie

[gratuitous]

1. They've done it before

Will their members think the NRA has gone soft if they don't have a big gunfest in Tucson soon?

[JNelson6563]

3. I know, Columbine anyone?

That's why it occurred to me.

[X_Digger]

4. Hint: the 1999 meeting had been planned years in advance..

.. and was cut to be just the business meeting (as is mandated by their charter.)

[gratuitous]

5. Yes, and Charlton Heston was limited to holding a flintlock

Such restrained and demure behavior. I heard they cut down the number of cameras to record him and his "from my cold dead hands" rallying cry. So very sensitive.

[X_Digger]

6. You've let 'bowling' skew your reality.

Under NY law (where the NRA is incorporated), they could not change the annual meeting date without providing 10 days notice to members. There were 11 days between the two events.

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/shooting/0422nra3.shtml

In a letter to NRA members Wednesday, President Charlton Heston and the group's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, said all seminars, workshops, luncheons, exhibits by gun makers and other vendors, and festivities are canceled.

All that's left is a members' reception with Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., and the annual meeting, set for 10 a.m. May 1 in the Colorado Convention Center.

Under its bylaws and New York state law, the NRA must hold an annual meeting.

The NRA convention April 30-May 2 was expected to draw 22,000 members and give the city a $17.9 million economic boost.

"But the tragedy in Littleton last Tuesday calls upon us to take steps, along with dozens of other planned public events, to modify our schedule to show our profound sympathy and respect for the families and communities in the Denver area in their time of great loss," Heston and LaPierre wrote.

But why let measly facts get in the way of a good rant?

Oh.. the 'cold dead hands'? Wasn't from the 1999 meeting. Derp.

[classof56]

2. I'm guessing soon, and also guessing lots and lots of media coverage.

Shame on all of them!

Peace.

[pipoman]

7. Irony

we never hear "shame on them" on DU when the ACLU defends a rapist or mass murder..nor should we if they are defending civil liberties

the NRA defends the one civil liberty the ACLU ignores.

[Pancho Sanza]

8. I'm a longtime member of both...to me, ALL civil rights are important!

:D

[pipoman]

9. Yep and if the ACLU would wake up

and defend the 2nd as it is supposed to it would effectively put the nra out of the lobbying business.