(CNSNews.com) – The president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence accused National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre of being responsible for the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida by “putting the gun in George Zimmerman’s hands.”
During a rally on Capitol Hill marking the five-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre in which 32 people were killed and the eight-year anniversary on Friday of the Columbine High School shooting, Brady Campaign president Dan Gross called on Congress to “take simple action to stop arming dangerous people.” Also, on hand at the rally were victims of gun violence and their families.
“Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention, in his feeble attempt to deflect the well-deserved blame for putting the gun in George Zimmerman’s hands, had the gall to complain about all the media attention on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. He asked, ‘What about the tragedies that occur every day in our nation?’” Gross said.
“Well, Wayne. Here they are – 32 of them – and they blame you and the politicians who do your bidding every bit as much as the media does. The fact is – not just the Trayvon Martin tragedy – but most of the gun violence in our nation could be prevented if Congress would take simple action to stop arming dangerous people,” he added.
“Arming dangerous people just to support a lobby that sells guns. That is shameful. It is immoral. It is almost criminal. That’s why we’re here in D.C., this week, to demand Congress make it abundantly clear whose vision they support – the NRA’s dark, paranoid vision of guns just about anywhere in just about anyone’s hands or our vision – an America where tragedies like ours and the 32 others that will occur today no longer happen,” Gross said.
Read More at CNS News.com. By Melanie Hunter.
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To Hell with this liberal basta**d! If Zimmerman hadn’t been packing, “Little Innocent Trayvon” would probably killed him. Trayvon got just what he deserved in spite of Anti-Gun Nuts like this guy!
This has got to be the most ignorant and idiotic statement I have heard in a long time. If a person goes along with this irrational line of BS, then the car manufacturers are to blame for people who are killed by cars????????
Will The PRESIDENT OF THE BRADY CAMPAIGN please show me 100% irrefutable documented PROOF that The NRA Purchased and placed the gun in the hands of the person who shot Treyvon Martin.At the same time I would like this person to explain where the Parents of a 17 year old were at 3:00 am and their son was out skulking around with the hood of a hoodie wrapped around his face as if he was trying to hide who he was.If my son is out at 3:00am and not on his way to work or on his way home from work when he is 17 you can bet I will be out looking for him and when I find him I will KICK his ass all the way home. Better to face a JURY of 12 for kicking his butt than watch six lower his casket in a hole in the ground because sitting watching tv was more important.
Iceman: There are enough errors and distortions flying around in this case that they need to be corrected
whenever possible. Trayvon Martin was NOT out at 3:00 AM. (Nor was he shot in the back of the head,
nor outweighed by 100 pounds, among erroneously reported “facts”). The incident happened around
7:15 PM. After cuffing Zimmerman, checking the scene and interviewing witnesses, the police were back
at the station — with Zimmerman in custody — at 7:52 PM
First of all, Brady’s shooting in 1981 was a tragedy, and I can imagine his emotional attachment to this issue. At the same time his response had been tantamount to a rape victim calling for the castration of all men. To compound matters, his group distorts the truth. Their web site has one heading “Americans for the right to buy skittles without getting shot”, another with George Zimmerman’s mug shot and “This is the NRA”, and finally, they call the concealed reciprocity act the “George Zimmerman Armed Vigilante Acts (S. 2213 and S. 2188)”,
This is flat out dishonest, which shows their desperation. As to the effectiveness of their “gun control” here’s a cold but true quote: “The D.C. gun ban works — just ask James Brady.” The law was passed in 1976. Mr. Brady was shot in 1981.
If the NRA put the gun in George’s hand then o gave the impetus to treyvon the black thug to attack a security guard.
So that means for sure that Obama put the guns in the hands of the Fast and Furious murderers? Holder? Napolitano? I agree let’s just try them all and see who’s guilty, LaPierre for Trayvon’s murder and Obama, Holder, Napolitano for the deaths of 2 American agents and 300 Mexican nationals. Yeah, that’s fair. I bet LaPierre would turn himself in like Zimmerman and that Obama would just suspend elections and declare martial law.
I was going to make a long dissertation on this article but it has all been said. My only comment now is check your facts before you write and lay off the profanity, it accomplishes nothing except aggravating the situation.
Thank Heaven for the NRA that put that gun in his hand. Without the gun, Trayvon Martin would have beat Zimmerman to death. Or that is at least what Trayvon said he was going to do.
Just think if they outlawed every thing that people used to kill with? tell you what outlaw cars they kill more people than guns water kills more people than guns. With out guns the gov. will kill more people than all three thing combine.
So if he had not been armed whose death would we be hearing about in the media today? The truth is, we wouldn’t, the media wouldn’t touch it!