The National Shooting Sports Foundation has an office in Newton and they’re thinking about leaving.

With a handful of the nearly 50 foundation employees confronted by angry neighbors, as well as protesters appearing outside the foundation’s headquarters, Steve Sanetti said he had to look at the situation from “a strategic standpoint” and determine whether having the name of Newtown associated with the organization would affect its mission to promote hunting and shooting sport

Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/APNewsBreak-Gun-group-considered-leaving-Newtown-5001544.php

It’s hard to feel sympathy for them when:

In the wake of the massacre, Sanetti said the group deliberately didn’t make any statements for about a month.

“Being here in the community, we just didn’t think it was appropriate, frankly. It was respectful silence,” Sanetti said. “It was horrible in town here. The funerals going by and everything. It was,let’s just stay out of the way.”

 

Oh yeah? And what did it get you? Who ever fought a bully with “respectful silence” and won? It’s times like these that we stand up and fight!

Sanetti said gun safety is a major focus for his group.

“It has to be said, that had Mrs. Lanza in town here taken the appropriate steps to keep her guns secured from her son, who she knew to be at risk, this wouldn’t have happened,

Right, because Lanza couldn’t have slashed mommy’s throat with a knife, open the safe, and get her guns. Asshole, Mrs. Lanza tried to get her son confined to a mental institution and they wouldn’t let her do it.

After the Newtown shooting, NSSF hired a public relations firm to promote and rebrand its Project ChildSafe effort, dedicated to gun safety and the distribution of gun locks. During President George W. Bush‘s eight-year presidency, ChildSafe received $92 million in federal funds and distributed 34 million gun locks across the country. NSSF is now hoping to garner support for $10 million in federal funding to supplement the $1 million the gun industry provides annually. Sanetti said he was optimistic in January after attending a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, whose senior policy adviser approached Sanetti and said the administration liked the program. But there was no follow-up afterward, he said.

Well, talk about a Jewish Nazi or a Black Klansman. Seriously, with gun owners like this, who needs anti-gunners? You don’t promote the 2nd Amendment by wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on items that make guns seem dangerous.

You keep children safe by teaching them about guns! The NRA’s Eddie Eagle is a far better educator than some damn gun lock, and it doesn’t cost Big Government a penny either.

Folks, the NSSF reminds me a lot of Big Tobacco and other trade groups that compromise with the enemy, insult their own brand, and then wonder why they’re being destroyed.

If you own a gun store, you’re better off with the NRA or GOA, they have lawyers, they can fight for you. Unless the NSSF stops acting like a bunch of PUSSIES, they don’t deserve our respect or support.

Man up, NSSF!

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