jimnyc
01-31-2013, 02:29 PM
Despite facing a campaign to impose new gun restrictions—one backed by President Barack Obama after a string of deadly mass shootings across the country—the National Rifle Association says it has no intention of backing away from its stalwart defense of gun ownership. Indeed, the organization's leaders think it's a battle they'll win.
NRA President David Keene, who attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday for a bill that would impose restrictions on certain guns and ammunition available to private citizens, predicts that little will change by the time the most recent debate settles down.
“Our opponents … hope they can use emotion to achieve an anti-firearms agenda that they haven’t been able to achieve in the past," Keene said during a meeting with reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday morning. “People are smarter than politicians, and common sense ultimately prevails. … We’ve had that discussion at various decibel levels over the last several decades, and it’s always come out that way and I expect it to happen again.”
The group has been lobbying against a bill introduced by California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would require background checks at private gun shows and restrict access to some firearms. But it has called for adding individual mental health histories to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and increasing federal prosecutions against those who use guns for crime.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/nra-president-david-keene-predicts-victory-gun-debate-171459399--politics.html
NRA President David Keene, who attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday for a bill that would impose restrictions on certain guns and ammunition available to private citizens, predicts that little will change by the time the most recent debate settles down.
“Our opponents … hope they can use emotion to achieve an anti-firearms agenda that they haven’t been able to achieve in the past," Keene said during a meeting with reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday morning. “People are smarter than politicians, and common sense ultimately prevails. … We’ve had that discussion at various decibel levels over the last several decades, and it’s always come out that way and I expect it to happen again.”
The group has been lobbying against a bill introduced by California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would require background checks at private gun shows and restrict access to some firearms. But it has called for adding individual mental health histories to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and increasing federal prosecutions against those who use guns for crime.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/nra-president-david-keene-predicts-victory-gun-debate-171459399--politics.html