At NRA meeting, Ricketts says group has been 'vilified and unfairly attacked'
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Emily Nitcher
LINCOLN Saying the National Rifle Association had been vilified and unfairly attacked, Gov. Pete Ricketts avowed his support for Second Amendment rights in a speech at the associations annual meeting.
The governor spoke Friday at the NRAs forum in Dallas to a crowd that earlier in the day heard from President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others.
Second Amendment rights are fundamental to Americans, but those rights are under attack, Ricketts said to the crowd.
How do we fight this tide of people who are trying to change our Constitution and take away our rights? Ricketts said.
FULL story at link below photo.
Gov. Pete Ricketts
RYAN SODERLIN/THE WORLD-HERALD
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Botany
(70,447 posts)thank you for posting that graphic. The evil bastards need their crimes shoved in their faces constantly.
Botany
(70,447 posts).... lives because of the proliferation of guns in America. BTW as a father my interest
in hunting (deer) has fallen off ever since Sandy Hook. More guns = more gun deaths
and shootings end of story. There is no reason for anybody outside of the military and or
law enforcement to own an AR-15 or any other assault weapon.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)but today's NRA is simply a Terrorist Organization espousing bad ideas about weapons, responsibility and reality.
They should be labeled as such and shut down!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)like this piece of crud elected by the membership:
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)I'd call it hypocrisy but not sure if it fits. Projection, but it's not an adequate term to describe accusing others of being exactly what you are while denying you are what you are.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)which tells you a lot about Ricketts and republican "integrity"
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)and vilifying them.
djacq
(1,633 posts)Keep fighting Parkland, keep fighting.
paleotn
(17,884 posts)Burn them the fuck down!!!!!
Wuddles440
(1,120 posts)always play the "victim" card! It's just part of their DNA along with creating an alternative reality.
turbinetree
(24,685 posts)it's called the First Amendment, and it's number one for a reason............................have you figured it out yet...................Asshole
Your Koch backed right wingers asshole have control over 30 state houses and your Koch assholes want to have Constitutional Convention and rewrite the Constitution for it to favor them, and to just plain fuck people over legally.............so FUCK YOU
benld74
(9,901 posts)Making statements
Backing entities
Showing their true colors
Nebraska
You
Can
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msongs
(67,361 posts)Initech
(100,041 posts)cp
(6,617 posts)I think we ought to just laugh 'em out of existence.
TomCADem
(17,382 posts)Perhaps they NRA should stop peddling rhetoric like this threatening the press:
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)with taxpayer paid security talking tough.