Slow to admit their 'marketing targeting' of that next generation demographic ... as the "future gun advocates" of America ...
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Reactions to the news, as you might expect, have ranged from somber to mystified to angry. But with the story making the rounds on social media, only those latter two applied to a tweet posted on Wednesday afternoon by NRA Women, which is part of the National Rifle Association's Women's Programs and is sponsored by gun manufacturing giant Smith & Wesson. "7 Ways Children Can Have Fun at the Shooting Range" the tweet announced, linking to a recent story that details how kids can get bored with target practice if not properly entertained. NRA Women posted the tweet at 1:51 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday; by about 3 p.m. it had been yanked, but not before I'd taken a screen shot:
In Wake of Arizona Uzi Killing, NRA Tweets About Kids Having Fun With Guns
The NRA Women account—sponsored by Smith & Wesson—has since taken down the tweet.
by Mark Follman, motherjones.com -- Aug. 27, 2014
Here's the offending NRA article that they are not very quick to take credit for -- just the opposite actually -- as the promotional Tweet got abruptly deleted. Hmmm, I wonder why?
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7 ways children can have fun at the shooting range include:
Animal shaped targets [...]
Multi-colored targets [...]
Mutants and zombie targets [...]
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Active targets [...]
Exploding targets [...]
7 ways children can have fun at the shooting range
by Mia Anstine womensoutdoornews.com, August 20, 2014
What no "Free-box of Crayolas" with every paid admission?
A quick search of Google News: NRA Uzi AZ
... indicates that the NRA Lobby has no words of wisdom about the tragic events in AZ, involving a child and a very powerful automatic weapon.
And the NRA appears to have no "official statement" on this recent senseless gun death either, on their official site:
nraila.org/news-issues
But this writer at the nydailynews has no such compunctions -- for silence:
Guns still plague America like an incurable social disease – and Congress does nothing about it
A little 9-year-old girl must now live with the images of deafening gunfire, which came as she lost control of an Uzi and fired a bullet into the head of Charles Vacca at Bullets and Burgers, a Disneyland for gun nuts in Arizona. Vacca, who was killed, leaves behind a shattered family that now knows what 26 families of Newtown, Conn. experienced in December 2012.
by Denis Hamill, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS -- Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Guns don’t kill people.
Nine-year-old girls with ponytails and pink shorts on summer vacation do.
Just ask the National Rifle Association. They will tell you that the 9-mm. Uzi submachine gun used by the Israeli military as a weapon of war and by sociopathic murderous drug cartels had nothing to do with the death of Charles Vacca, 39, in a shooting range in Arizona called Bullets and Burgers.
I was reading about this sad and horrific incident right after I hung up with a father from Newtown, Conn., [...]
That’s a day that will live in infamy for the cowardice Congress showed in the wake of those 26 funerals by killing any real gun-control legislation. The shills we elect to our do-nothing Congress to keep a check and balance on the executive branch are only concerned with the checks they receive from the NRA and the balance of their votes on Election Night every two years.
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he goes on ...
Wouldn't it be something, if someday,
anguished citizens like Mr Hamill -- wouldn't have to?