Hello,
Below is an editorial in the USA Today that ran online last night. It is from Chris Cox, the NRA's executive director of the Institute for Legislative Action. Below that is:
* background information on California shooting
* NRA statement on the Terror Watch List issue
* NRA member alert on Terror Watch List issue
* attached is a fact sheet on the Feinstein/King Terror Watch list legislation
USA Today, editorial, December 3, 2015
No, Mr. President, the NRA is Not to Blame: Chris Cox
The NRA is calling on the president to stop exploiting tragedies to push his failed political agenda. It's shameful. The NRA will neither accept the blame for the acts of murderers, nor apologize for fighting for our right to defend ourselves against them.
Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action.
Gun control supporters have repeatedly referred to California's gun laws as the "model for the nation." In their state scorecards, they always give California the highest grade. These laws did nothing to protect the people in San Bernadino. Since 1975, when California began enacting its laundry list of gun control provisions, the state's annual murder rates have averaged 21 percent higher than the national rate.• Gun control supporters repeatedly refer to California's gun control laws as the "model for the nation."• California prohibits the sale of semi-automatic firearms that gun control supporters call "assault weapons," which are commonly owned in most other states.• California requires a permit to purchase any firearm.• California requires that all firearm sales are registered• California requires that all firearm sales are subject to a background check.• Less than one percent (0.154 %, to be exact) of California's population is licensed to carry.• France has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, and yet those laws did nothing to stop the terrorist attacks last month.• France requires a license to purchase any firearm.• France requires special permits to own pump-action rifles and shotguns, semi-automatic rifles that hold more than three rounds of ammunition, and any other firearms capable of holding more than 11 rounds.Shooters who passed background checks• Syed Rizwan Farook (San Bernardino shooting)• Christopher Harper-Mercer (Umpqua Community College shooting)• Vester Flanagan (Roanoke, VA news crew shooting)• John Russell Houser (Lafayette theater shooting)• Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (Chattanooga National Guard shooting)• Dylann Roof (Charleston church shooting),• Elliot Rodger (Santa Barbara campus shooting),• Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard),• Wade Michael Page (Sikh Temple),• James Holmes (Aurora theater),• Jared Loughner (Tucson),• Nidal Hasan (Fort Hood 2009)• A new (June 2015) study by the Congressional Research Service stated that mass shootings accounted for a microscopic 0.004 percent of all deaths, about 0.66 percent of all murder victims, and less than one fiftieth the number of non-firearm murder victims in the United States over the 15-year period 1999-2013.• The number of guns in the country has doubled over the last 2 decades, during that same time: the murder rate in this country is at an all-time low and the violent crime rate is at a 43 year low.The following efforts would NOT have stopped recent mass shootings:• Background checks• Waiting periods• Online sales restrictions• Closing the so-called "gun show loophole"
Catherine MortensenMedia LiaisonNRA, Institute for Legislative Action703-267-1149 (desk line) 202-590-0184 (cell #)Follow me on Twitter @catmortensenNRA
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