USA – -(Ammoland.com)- After a week of media silence following the school shooting in Florida, the National Rifle Association has gone on the offensive in its first public response to the massacre, pushing back against demands to blindly take away guns, the mainstream media, gun-control advocates and calls for stricter gun laws made by upset teenage survivors of the attack.
The gun rights group — a powerful force in American politics — used a series of facts, speeches and videos to try to blunt an emotionally charged wave of calls for new gun restrictions since a mad man armed with an AR-15 rifle killed 17 people at a South Florida high school.
As the teens who escaped the bloodshed in Parkland, Fla., have passionately campaigned for new laws, it appears the politics suffusing the fraught issue of gun control are shifting, with President Trump and some conservative lawmakers expressing a newfound willingness to consider at least modest measures.
While the NRA initially held back from the fray, that changed Wednesday and Thursday, as a spokeswoman debated survivors of the attack during a heated town hall and then Wayne LaPierre, the group’s chief executive, forcefully decried gun-control advocates and the media for its one-sided coverage of the shooting.
