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NRA Apologizes For Calling Guns-In-Restaurants Crowd ‘Weird’

The statement in question reproached gun activists in Texas for their attempts to take high-powered semiautomatic rifles into fast food restaurants. It said the activists had “crossed the line from enthusiasm to downright foolishness,” and denounced their tactics as “weird” and even “scary.”

In response, the activists flipped out. The group most notably involved in the fast food demonstrations, Open Carry Texas, issued a statement demanding that the NRA retract its “disgusting and disrespectful comments.” That’s basically what they got from Cox on Tuesday. Cox said the NRA shares the activists’ goal of getting Texas’ restrictions on the open carry of handguns changed.

We’ve been watching with amusement the predictable and gawdy/low-rent remakes of Frankenstein all over Wingnuttia the last few years: you create a monster and you then lose control of it. First it was the Theocrats, then the Teabaggers, and now it is the Ammosexuals.

But it is something when the NRA loses control of their monster because it is armed and dangerous.

By: Tengrain

Fully caffeinated with twice the sugar, unabashedly liberal. Award-winning Americans United blogger, blogs at Mock Paper Scissors, and sometimes at Crooks and Liars.

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