MAD magazine reveals the unabridged NRA statement from last Tuesday. Update: NRA President's speech today!

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You know the sad part is that this, though written by a humor magazine, is probably not at all far from the truth. In fact I would say that it is most likely spot on.

Later today, in just a half an hour or so in fact, the NRA is going to release a NEW statement. Get ready for the obfuscation and redirection, because you KNOW it's coming.

By the way you may be interested to learn that gun deaths are just about to surpass traffic deaths by the year 2015:

A disturbing new study by Bloomberg finds that by 2015, the number of people killed by guns in the US will likely surpass the number of people killed in traffic accidents. It would be a first. Vehicle deaths are on the decline (down 22% between 2005 and 2010), but gun deaths have been increasing since hitting a low in 2000. By 2015, shooting fatalities are expected to be at nearly 33,000, while traffic fatalities will be around 32,000. 

In 10 states, gun deaths were already outpacing traffic deaths in 2009, Slate reports. Those states range from Michigan, which had a high of 1,095 gun deaths compared to 977 motor vehicle deaths, to Alaska, which had a low of 104 gun deaths compared to 84 motor vehicle deaths. 

Do you want to guess at how many of those deaths by way of a bullet were considered a legitimate use of force to protect property or life? I think we all know the answer to that.

Update:  Wayne LaPierre just said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to have a good guy with a gun.  He just literally demanded that the President allow his organization to put trained gunmen into our public schools to protect our children, this is beyond insane!

Update 2: Here is the transcript from Wayne LaPierre's speech, he is the President of the NRA. You are going to have to read it to believe it.

Here is one disgusting portion:

We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the American family, our children, we as a society leave them every day utterly defenseless, and the monsters and the predators of the world know it, and exploit it.

By the way if you want to see one of those monsters that LaPierre is talking about here is a picture of one. ANYBODY who uses a tragedy like this to insist on more lax gun laws around our public schools and demands that gunmen be allowed to walk around among our children as a deterrent to the crimes made possible by HIS lobbyists constant watering down of our gun laws, is the very definition of a monster.

Update 3: Do you remember that post I wrote on December 8th, about the fact that the NRA loves mass shootings because they frighten people into buying more guns?

Remember how some people thought that was an exaggeration?

Check out this portion of La Pierre's unbelievable speech this morning: 

Right now today every school in the United States should plan meetings with parents, school administrators, teachers, local authorities and draw upon every resource that’s out there and available to erect a cordon of protection around our kids right now. 

Every school is gonna have a different solution based on its own unique situation. Every school in America needs to immediately identify, dedicate and deploy the resources necessary to put these security forces in place, though, right now. 

And the National Rifle Association, as America’s preeminent trainer of law enforcement and security personnel for the past 50 years -- we have 11,000 police training instructors in the NRA -- is ready, willing and uniquely qualified to help.

Still think it was an exaggeration?