"No Comment" & "No Questions": "Time to Mourn"

Sat. Dec. 22, 2012:

The National Rifle Association is no stranger to this blog.
But does anyone else, Dear Readers, sense a new low in the NRA's silence since Newtown?

Item:
"Many Owners Say Semiautomatic Weapons are Just Another Hobby"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/us/owners-of-assault-weapons-dismiss-idea-of-federal-ban.html?_r=0

Patrick Mason of Las Vegas uses his AR-15 ["assault"?] rifle for target practice with fruit in the desert.
"I don' want to shoot holes in pieces of paper.  I want to watch a watermelon be destroyed," he said.

Item:
"Minnesota:  Man Charged In Deaths of Intruders"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/us/minnesota-man-charged-in-deaths-of-intruders.html

A Little Falls homeowner was charged for shooting two unarmed teenagers in the midst of an apparent Thanksgiving Day break-in.  Byron David Smith, 64, acknowledged firing "more shots than I needed to" and appeared to take pride in "a good clean finishing shot" for one teenager.  After the teenager fell down the basement stairs, Mr. Smith said he shot him in the face.  His 18-year-old female companion also fell down the stairs after Smith shot her, whereupon his rifle jammed.  So he pulled out his revolver and shot her several times in the chest, according to the complaint.  The Morrison County sheriff said Mr. Smith waited until Friday to report the deaths, explaining that "he didn't want to trouble us on a holiday."


NYT:
"Leaders of the [NRA] organization have declined interview requests since the shootings, the group's Twitter account has gone silent, and it has deactivated its Facebook page."

From the moment the shooting stopped -- Friday Dec. 14, 2012 -- the NRA refrain has been "No Comment."
Same is true of every single Republican in both Houses of Congress.

But then on Friday Dec. Dec. 21, we were treated to what days of hype had advertised
would be "a major contribution" from the NRA regarding the "tragedy of Newtown."

At 11:00 a.m. Fri. Dec. 21, NRA president David Keene [who threatened to punch a filmmaker in 2009, above] introduced NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, stipulating that there would be "No Questions" after
Mr. LaPierre's long-awaited NRA reaction to Newtown a week earlier.

                   You know your press conference didn't go well if the Murdoch tabloids blast you!

BY ANY MEASURE, THE GOP & NRA SILENCE REPRESENTS THEIR OWN SHAME
ON HOW THE PUBLIC MIGHT RECEIVE THEIR POSITION ON GUNS.


Whether it's guns, abortion, Citizens United, climate control, fiscal cliff, waterboarding
-- AM I CRAZY, OR ARE REPUBLICANS ON THE EVIL SIDE OF EVERY ISSUE?

1.  See Paul Krugman's "Grand Old Planet," on Republicans' biblical geology & climate-change denial -- Marco Rubio says the earth may be just 6000 years old.

2.  See the Boston Globe's "GOP's National Game Doesn't Play Well Locally" -- "birthers," gay marriage,  immigration, you name it.  Evil, Evil, EVIL?