I DO NOT want this to happen, but what if...

[Shanti Mama]

What if an assault weapon-carrying nut got into the NRA convention and started shooting?
How would they rationalize it?
What could they possibly say to having their friends and loved ones were gunned down?
I don't know of a survivor or family member of such an attack has ever continued to support the NRA.
Again, I don't want this to happen, I'm not advocating, I hope and pray that no one ever shoots up any place again, not even the NRA convention. But as with an intervention on an alcoholic, how can we get them to hit an early bottom with some kind of confrontation with the effects of their beliefs?
Is there any other hope?

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I'm sure such a loon would be filled full of lead...

...AFTER he took out several people.

[SheilaT]

2. One would hope that it would finally make all the gun apologists

understand that more guns are not the answer, but probably not. They'd proudly point to the first shooter being gunned down and would not really pay attention to how many relatively innocent bystanders also got gunned down.

[tanyev]

3. One person starts shooting in a room full of armed, paranoid gun nuts?

By the time the smoke cleared, hardly anyone would be left standing.

[lunatica]

4. In an NRA Convention they'll shoot back

and then use it as propaganda on how the 'good' NRAers shot the 'bad' one.

They're probably praying that something like that happens.

[Addison]

5. Like you, I don't want it to happen

But I can't help being curious about the "what ifs"

[11 Bravo]

6. The only certainty is that Ted Nugent would first shit his pants, and then hide behind someone else.

[davidpdx]

15. If Nugent every shits his pants, I hope it's caught on tape

Super slow-mo replay.....

[Posteritatis]

7. They'd claim it was a false flag thing. (nt)

[Sunlei]

8. Guns were not allowed at the venue they leased.

[firenewt]

9. And being the law abiding citizens that they are, no guns will be in the venue.

[AlinPA]

13. No guns at an NRA convention? Why would they choose such a site?

[Heddi]

10. That's kind of odd

why wouldn't they want guns there?

[Sunlei]

11. their cars in the parking lots were probably stuffed with guns.

[Heddi]

12. Did they feel unsafe if guns were in the arena?

for the "everyone should have guns everywhere" crowd, you'd think they'd welcome the packing crowd....

[Bake]

16. My understanding was that there were loads of guns for sale there.

Maybe not at the venue itself? Don't know.

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[BlueDemKev]

14. The gunman would be shot dead in seconds...

...and Suzanna Gratia Hupp (pro-gun advocate from Texas who lost her parents in the Luby's Cafeteria massacre in 1991) would be out crowing saying, "See? I told you that gun-free zones are a crock! If I had had my gun with me that day in the restaurant I could've shot that creep and my parents would have lived."

[Bake]

17. There would be a massive cross-fire, would be my guess.

Whether guns are "allowed" or not. Just a guess on my part. Don't want to find out (certainly not first-hand!).



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