Hitting out at Barack Obama for politicising the incident, the NRA’s executive editor Chris Cox wrote for the USA Today, how America’s law-abiding gun owners are ‘sick and tired of him suggesting that men and women of the NRA are somehow to blame’.
Hitting out at Barack Obama for politicising the incident, the National Rifle Association(NRA)’s executive editor Chris Cox wrote for the USA Today, how America’s law-abiding gun owners are ‘sick and tired of him suggesting that men and women of the NRA are somehow to blame’.
The piece points out that California has already adopted President Obama’s gun control wish list and the laws didn’t prevent the horrific crime from taking place. The piece goes on to claim that Obama’s ‘failed foreign policy’ and ‘his domestic control agenda’ would leave the United States ‘defenceless’. He adds: “That's why our Second Amendment right to defend ourselves must be protected. It’s not just a constitutionally guaranteed freedom. It’s a natural, God-given, human right.”
The piece then asks Obama to ‘stop exploiting tragedies to push his failed political agenda’, and that the NRA would continue fight for the right of law-abiding gun owners and wouldn’t apologise for fighting for their right to defend themselves against madmen, gang members or terrorists. The mass shooting sparked a new round of the firearms debate with Obama and the New York Times calling for new limits on gun ownership. Many pro-gun voices, including some Republican contenders for the White House, said the new laws would not have stopped the rampage.
The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial for nearly a century, said it was "a moral outrage and a national disgrace" that the sort of firearms used in the attack were readily available.
Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump dismissed the call for action, saying people worldwide needed protection. "If you look at Paris, they didn't have guns and they were slaughtered. If you look at California, they didn't have guns and they were slaughtered," he said in Iowa before a campaign event.
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