Pic Of The Moment: Vile: NRA Board Member Blames Murdered Charleston Pastor For Church Massacre

[EarlG]

NRA board member blames South Carolina church murders on one of the victims

NRA board member Charles Cotton

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[RoverSuswade]

1. What a dick!

This tells you all you need to know about the soul of the NRA.

[RVN VET]

54. So it tells you something about nothing.

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. IT IS TIME TO MARCH TO SC

LET's GO!

[blm]

3. Did NRA blame Chris Kyle for his own death?

The Las Vegas policemen?

No - those gun victims were armed and trained….and shot by someone who was sold guns and used those guns to kill them.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. projection

In reality people die because of his position on a political issue.

[oldandhappy]

5. gag

Is this guy related to Tom Cotton?

ick

[niyad]

20. that was my first thought.

[marym625]

6. K&R

[valerief]

7. Why is this POS allowed to breathe? nt

[onehandle]

8. Gun Culture is not Civilized.

'Chas' and his fellow mouthpieces for the gun industry will not be treated well in the history books.

Guns are the tools of, and a major symbol of racism.

[Major Nikon]

9. Ammosexual "logic"

All we need is more gun nuts to protect us from the gun nuts.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. Guess it's time to post this again

[-none]

89. More guns is not the answer to gun violence.

How can anyone not understand that? Their logic is illogical.

[BlueJazz]

10. Mr. NRA member Charles Cotton. This piece-of-shit would be pickin' cotton if it were up to me.

(for having said that)

[PatrynXX]

11. correction 9 people are DEAD because the Pastor was a Christian

There should be no violence in the house of the lord. you bring guns into that building you bring violence into the house of the lord. Just some people I feel have warmer feet than others. His is on fire. You can pretty much tell who hasn't read the bible. I suppose he blames Jesus for not doing anything about being on the Cross?

[bulloney]

21. Well - Jesus wouldn't have died if he and his apostles were allowed concealed carry doncha know?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

69. Or....

[IHateTheGOP]

32. Christianity had nothing to do with this crime. The pastor is dead because he was black

[RoBear]

37. Thanks...

I'm sure somewhere some asshat is saying they were killed because they were Christian. What utter rot. They were killed because they were black.

[DawgHouse]

51. No, they were killed because of their race.

The shooter SAID so.

[awoke_in_2003]

63. No, 9 people are dead because they were black

Religion had nothing to do with it.

[AlbertCat]

86. There should be no violence in the house of the lord.

But everywhere else it's OK!


The "house of the lord" is just a building... that no one pays property taxes on.....

[packman]

12. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition

People like him make me want to

[geardaddy]

13. Fucking fuckwit.

[PatrynXX]

14. I'll put this video up... "We cannot turn to violence because if you pick up stones or guns, you

will become just like them.".

[SoapBox]

15. Shut down this Terrorist group.

[llmart]

29. I want to rec your post....

That is exactly what needs to happen. We need to find a way to shut them down and shut them up.

[sarge43]

33. That it is

That POS gave his true believers permission to kill anyone who disagrees with him. That's hate speech and terrorism.

[Initech]

16. The NRA is the worst thing that has ever happened to this country.

[IHateTheGOP]

30. That and fixed news

[nightscanner59]

64. You said it! My channel surfing the evening of this tragedy:

CNN: "country in mourning of this horrific event"... HLN: "unimaginable violence that must be stopped"... MSNBC: "Here to interview some of the witnesses of this terrible tragedy"....
and then motherf***ing FOX: "Obama's coming to git yer guns".
I know throwing something at the teevee didn't change anything, but I just couldn't help it.

[ybbor]

17. WTF

I seriously do not understand gun nuts logic.

He is an evil human!

[CBHagman]

18. The funerals haven't even begun...

...and he's dancing on graves that haven't even been dug.

As for what he's saying, it's nothing but the fantasy that increasing the number of guns is going to reduce the number of deaths -- this in a country where we see daily loss of life due to accidents, suicides, and assaults involving firearms, due to the presence of guns. Little kids don't accidentally kill each other with hymnals.

[niyad]

23. orwellian newspeak in action

[Initech]

35. Expect a picket announcement from Westboro in 3...2...1...

[SoapBox]

19. Smith and Wesson now says the massive increase in guns is Obama's fault.

On Yahoo...guns sale sky rocketed BECAUSE of the "change in Administration" in 2008.

Filthy, fucking HATE filled company.

The HATERS are so emboldened these days, now they're coming out of the woodwork.

We need something done to push back on these Domestic Terror groups.

[LynneSin]

31. 2nd amendment rights my ass...

it's all about the profits for them! And it's easy to make when you have stupid gullible people out there believing the shit they say

[Caretha]

78. Maybe Skinner & Earl

can be the first to push back?

Get rid of the "gungeon" and their misguided evil ideas?

Now isn't that a concept? Well you have got to start in your own small circle, as they say.

What say you Skinner & Earl? Or do you support this evil? Time will tell, whether money trumps what is right.

[niyad]

22. a bio of this hate-filled asshole:

Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton grew up in Houston, Texas, where he was first introduced to the shooting sports on his uncle’s dairy farm. At the age of 4, Cotton took aim with his uncle’s Remington .22 LR rifle for the very first time. His target was an old motor oil can on a fence post. When he squeezed the trigger and saw the can split open, his love of shooting was affirmed.
. . . . .
Cotton has since become an avid gun collector, advocate, hunter and pistol shooter. He currently resides in Friendswood, Texas, with his wife of 41 years, Martha. They have instilled a love of the shooting sports in their two sons as well.

As a competitive action pistol shooter and an active life member of the Texas State Rifle Association (TSRA), Cotton has served tirelessly as unofficial legislative counsel for TSRA and has been an integral component in passing several bills protecting the rights of shooters in Texas. He also serves on the board of directors of the PSC Shooting Club, Inc. in Friendswood.

. . . . .
Cotton uses his position to stress the importance of NRA membership, “The NRA’s strength is its members. The anti-freedom crowd has almost unlimited financial resources, but NRA members trump that financial strength with their votes.”

http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/17405/charles-cotton/

[SpankMe]

24. The NRA can suck my lily white ass. n/t

[sarge43]

25. Vile? You're too kind, EarlG.

Vicious scum for starters and then get nasty.

(My apologies to scum)

[IHateTheGOP]

26. If there really was a God, I know how this man would meet his end

[LynneSin]

27. I figured the NRA would wait at least a few weeks

what racists fucking assholes

[HassleCat]

28. What a nice man!

I would like to get to know him. Maybe I'll call the NRA and see if we can meet for coffee and some conversation. Perhaps we'll talk about cuddly kittens and our flower gardens.

[lark]

34. I TOTALLY HATE THE NRA!!

They do no good, are just paid tools for the firearms industry and revel in death.

Yeah, too bad the parishioners didn't have guns because probably more people would have died. Boo, not enough deaths for us, we need more blood, screamed out the NRA rep. (of course).

They wouldn't say that, but that's their ultimate aim. Just like the Repugs answer to every single imaginable question is "cut taxes", the NRA answer to everything is "need more guns". Naturally, they lie through their teeth and say this is to prevent deaths, but what they really want is more deaths and more guns because the 2 go hand in hand and they know it.

IMO, Guns rarely protect us, they mainly just kill us.

[Initech]

49. I saw a thread here the other day...

Where it said that no advanced nation has the mass shootings that we do. Well no advanced nation has an organization like the National Rifle Association that makes it really easy for the worst kinds of people in society to have access to fire arms. If we want to make real progress, the NRA has to go.

[gregcrawford]

36. As if we needed more proof...

... of what a festering malignancy the NRA has become under the leadership of Wayne LaPierre. Cotton is a sociopath with the soul of a snake. And I'm sure he calls himself a Christian, lowering the stock of Christianity by a considerable margin.

I was once an NRA member, back when it was a sportsman's organization devoted to responsible gun ownership. Now that it's a front for gun manufacturers, I wouldn't cross the street to piss on 'em if they were on fire.

Sooner or later, one of their devoted followers is gonna park a slug in one of THEIR brain pans. THEN whose fault will it be?

[yuiyoshida]

38. Republicans are so vile...

Look what they are today, and these people are our future? Rigging the system so they can rule and ruin this country more? People like this are disgusting and I wish someone would get in their face. Push the bullies back. This was not what our founding fathers wanted for this Country. The NRA is a vile organization and the people who run it are working for the manufacturers of weapons. A weapons only purpose is to kill another human being. Their way of thinking brings us all down to being the hunter or the hunted. It has to stop.

[Lifelong Protester]

39. How vile can one get?

(Edited to note: sorry, I did not see I was echoing what people already wrote, I'm so angry!)

[Martin Eden]

40. People who don't want guns in church are just ASKING to be SHOT!!!

[lakercub]

41. They're dead

because of a racist, terrorist thug.

And while the NRA didn't pull the trigger, I can't think of an organization (outside of the KKK) that has done more to embolden racist, terrorist thugs than the NRA.

[63splitwindow]

44. Right wing-nut hate media...

ranks right up there on the culpability scale. Hate filled filth is their stock-in-trade while preaching morality and family values.

[d_legendary1]

42. NRA Logic:

[40RatRod]

43. They walk among us...

...and unless the idiots are open carrying we never know it- until they open their mouths after a tragedy like this.

[SunSeeker]

45. Hypocrite. The NRA had their last convention in a hall that banned working guns.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/nra-convention-feature-nonoperational-guns-floor

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/06/nra-bans-operational-guns-at-nra-convention-for-security-reasons

[Angry Dragon]

60. This came to my mind also

[SunSeeker]

66. Yup, NRA conventions are safely gun-free.

Meanwhile, we are put at risk by gun nuts armed to the teeth in our streets, department stores, movie theaters, churches...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

46. So what he appears to be saying is

The right to own and carry as many guns one wants supersedes all other rights. Plus if you vote for gun control you deserve to die.

[sulphurdunn]

47. The argument

that if everyone carried a gun everywhere all the time fewer people would be murdered with guns (or other weapons, I suppose) is absurd, is contradicted by the evidence and conveniently serves the financial interest of the gun industry, of which the NRA is chief lobbyist.

[GeorgeGist]

50. NRA believers are tough nuts.

[sinkingfeeling]

52. Of course, since everyone in the USA should be carrying a loaded gun at all times. We

could all just shoot whoever we think might be up to no good. Yes siree, my utopian dream is to live in a totally barbaric country.

[Tarheel_Dem]

53. Sad. So pathetically sad.

[yardwork]

55. Revolting. This is today's right wing meme.

Sickening. Vile. An obscenity.

[George II]

56. (Pardon my language) So this fucker would have preferred an all-out gun fight...

...in the church?

That church isn't a Twin Peaks diner with hundreds of bikers hanging around.

[TNNurse]

57. Is there an organized religion

that promotes the idea of everyone coming to church armed??? Because I will never go there not just because I think it is wrong, but that I would not be willing to carry a gun for any reason.

[Ken Burch]

58. Dedicating two songs from a shooting victim to this asshole:

[samsingh]

59. is it any wonder that we don't generally care when imbeciles like this gun worshipper

hurts himself with his gun.

[DesertRat]

61. Disgusting!

[Jefferson23]

62. Contemptible bastard. n/t

[barbtries]

65. i know there's no hope when something like this happens.

no hope at all. nothing in the world will make these people see reason.

[etherealtruth]

67. The NRA and their supporters are sick, sick "effs"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

68. Don't they ban handguns at the NRA Headquarters?

[orbitalman]

70. His Asinine mindset is what caused this tragedy

[harris8]

71. Do these NRA morons really believe it will all work out like in an old Western movie?

Does this POS Charles Cotton think the church members, realizing they are being gunned down, would have time to duck behind bar tables oops, folding chairs, pull out their gun and go "blam blam" back and forth a few times, til somebody gets the bad guy?

Does he think that the mere fact that they each have a handgun will somehow magically prevent them from getting shot as they pull it out?

Do these freaking idiot NRA jerk-off's even realize Western's are not (and were not) real life?

[MisterP]

92. they didn't even simulate it with paintballs, like GOA did for Charlie Hebdo

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026085132

Cotton has less military experience than the cast of "Stripes"--same story with "only might makes right," "let's invade Cuba," "beat down that swaggering bully" Robert Heinlein, who was a turbeculotic sublieutenant who never saw combat
http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/17405/charles-cotton/

[WinkyDink]

72. Even heavily-armed military divisions have been over-taken by SURPRISE.

[allan01]

73. !@#$%^&*()_ nra

anyone to start challenging their non profit status

[curious_citizen]

74. If all black church goers get pistol permits I would love to hear his organization's response then.

[Cha]

75. Despicable asshole.

[ladjf]

76. Great. We could have had an old fashioned shoot out.

In an earlier post, I suggested employing metal detectors. But, I got jumped all over for that idea.

[Herman4747]

77. Yes, this is ASTONISHINGLY vile. (n/t)

[Betty]

79. Every decent NRA member should resign IMMEDIATELY

the NRA is just a front for the gun manufacturers anyways. They could care less about their members.

[SusanCalvin]

80. In the past few days,

I have learned that there really are such things as reflexive jaw drops and face palms.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

81. In Cotton's twisted world he thinks we need to carry handguns in church.

What a clear example of having no faith.

[erpowers]

82. Nadal Hassan

Nadal Hassan killed more people on a military base in a room full of guns than Dylan Roof did in a church in a room full of people without guns. Nadal Hassan kill 13 people on a Texas military base shortly after soldiers returned from a tour of duty overseas. Even after killing 13 people Hassan, though he was shot, was not killed. Maybe the people who shot him only wanted to wound him, but before he was wounded he was able to kill 13 people. Dylan Roof killed 9 people.

[turbinetree]

83. What is remarkable is this

ilk supports MURDER INCORPORATED.

He has no other mission except to hide behind an amendment that states in the pre-amble: "A well regulated Militia", which means guns are to be regulated for the militia.

And all these pukes from Tom Selleck (Board Member) try to do, is to create a deflection and illusion to blame the victim, this is there prime responsibility and this is how they operate in and under there business model when supporting there agenda which I call "Murder Incorporated.

88 human beings are murdered with a gun everyday in this country, everyday-------------that is a reality that he and the NRA are trying to hide and deflect

What a JERK

[BlueMTexpat]

84. The NRA is the most powerful terrorist group in the US.

That is exactly what the dialogue should be about.

People who are inspired by NRA rhetoric are very bit as much terrorists as those who are by al-Qaeda/ISIS/the IRA/the KKK or anyone else. The only reason that nothing is ever done about the NRA is because today's NRA is primarily dominated RW WHITE fascists/anarchists/libertarians who receive a lot of funding from people just like them.

[MrMickeysMom]

88. + 1,000,000,000

I posted below before reading…. my thoughts exactly.

[Fred Sanders]

85. This is your brain on the NRA and Myth-Believing. Myths were also Hitler's most secret weapon.

[MrMickeysMom]

87. By definition, the NRA and all these guys are terrorists, plain and simple...

They promote an internal war machine by supply side economics… Kill, or be killed…. be prepare to defend the other side we supply by being supplied with this industry. There is no down side from this kind of domestic terrorism.

These motherfuckers should be used as human shields in the most remote area of the world. Let them know what it's like to be caught in the crossfire of insanity ruled by their own greed.

[BlueMTexpat]

93. This can't be stated enough!!

NRA = US homegrown terrorists

Right on!

[Pinkflamingo]

90. I love Matt Bors

http://postimg.org/image/6mdv3v6ef/

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

91. Vile man.

nt