NRA officials split with Trump on wisdom of armed club-goers

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

Top National Rifle Association officials split Sunday with Donald Trump's position that armed club-goers are a good idea.

"I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking," said Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's chief executive officer said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "But I will tell you this. Everybody, every American starts to have -- needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves, because they're coming. And they're going for vulnerable spots, and this country needs to realize it."

NRA lobbyist Chris Cox told ABC's "This Week": "No one thinks that people should go into a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms. That defies commonsense. It also defies the law. It's not what we're talking about here."

Trump had said Friday at a rally that armed club-goers shooting Omar Mateen "would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight." "If we had people, where the bullets were going in the opposite direction, right smack between the eyes of this maniac," Trump said, gesturing between his eyes. "And this son of a b---- comes out and starts shooting and one of the people in that room happened to have (a gun) and goes boom. You know what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/19/politics/donald-trump-chris-cox-nra-orlando-shooting/

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Wow, even the NRA has to back-off of Trump's call for folks to go to nightclubs packing heat. After all, folks with guns getting their drink on. What could go wrong?

[BootinUp]

1. Vote Trump He's more extreme than the NRA!!!!!!!!!

[Crash2Parties]

4. That actually works for him, you know.

[BootinUp]

5. In a Puke Primary, sure. Checked his poll #s lately?

[billhicks76]

6. Idiocracy In Action

Bar fights happen all the time. Not at gay clubs but at any country or hip hop club. He wants them to turn into gun fights? Dumbass.

[Crash2Parties]

2. two thoughts:

1. I thought NRA stood for, "Nachos, Rifles & Alcohol"?

2. This is not a surprise, considering how closely tied the NRA is to the GOP, esp. considering the fast growing distance between the party and it's presumed candidate.

Okay, three thoughts:

Does this mean the NRA is now against Open Carry anywhere alcohol is served/consumed, or only gay clubs?

[hack89]

9. The NRA has always opposed mixing guns and alcohol

Every state outlaws it and the NRA has never protested.

[gopiscrap]

13. it stands for nuts rifles and alcohol

[cstanleytech]

3. "After all, folks with guns getting their drink on. What could go wrong?" You mean other than

getting so drunk when hunting that you cant tell the difference between a quail and a human being thus fucking up and shooting the human in the face causing the Secret Service to have to step in assist in covering up how much of a complete and utter asshat you were for drinking alcohol before and or during a hunt?

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Down the proverbial rabbit hole. Trump is now TOO EXTREME for even the friggn' NRA?????

[ck4829]

8. There's always the Gun Owners of America if the NRA is too lame for Trump

I'm pretty sure the GOA is one small step away from their doctrine being the "liberation of firearms from the cruel and twisted government that oppresses them" if it isn't like that already.

[Sunlei]

10. Republican NRA wants to make sure any Terrorists are well armed first.

[Paladin]

11. Since when does the NRA advocate "Gun Free Zones" ANYWHERE? Bars included? (nt)

[erpowers]

12. You Have A Problem

When even Wayne LaPierre says having more guns in a particular place would not have made things better; you should know you are on the wrong side of the issue.

So, we have finally found a situation where Wayne LaPierre thinks more guns was not the solution.