Good god the NRA is such a BS organization.

On one end they are yelling at one politician for saying, bringing a gun to a protest has a chance of giving them an excuse to shoot you. Which is objectively what just fricking happened, and good grief Bill Essayli's backtrack of it is... almost worse.

"I never said it's legally justified to shoot law-abiding concealed carriers. My comment addressed agitators approaching law enforcement with a gun and refusing to disarm"

Good fucking grief... The man wasn't an agitator... he didn't "refuse to disarm". He got the shit kicked out of him for trying to help a woman up, before they spotted the gun, disarmed him themselves and then executed him.

Key takeaways from the actual incident.

If you concealed carry. You are morally and legally in the right to do so, but the untrained keystone cops of ice, might kill you, and it remains to be seen if there is any hope that they will be held accountable.

NRA almost wants to take the right side here... but of course "wait for the full investigation" is there way of saying "ok look this is exactly the situation we've been saying we're going to defend... but it's crimes by the republicans so... lets find a democrat we can try to blame and say nothing about the responsible concealed carry person that was just executed.

They damn well know there will never be any kind of investigation... they know damn well that the evidence we have right now put together by concerned citizens, is the only evidence that we will ever get. Besides the lies that the current administration is going to say on TV.

Don’t sleep on this other gem of a comment they made:

"For months, radical progressive politicians like Tim Walz have incited violence against law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their jobs. Unsurprisingly, these calls to dangerously interject oneself into legitimate law-enforcement activities have ended in violence, tragically resulting in injuries and fatalities," wrote the NRA

C'mon NRA. The reason for your whole existence is so citizens can form a militia when their own government starts to rot and becomes violent towards them. Hmm...maybe it was the money all along. Mo' wars, mo' violence, mo' strife, mo' money.

Slams?

Their response was an uncertain and apprehensive "let's wait for the investigation".

NRA, this is your moment to put actions behind words and you quietly sit in a corner rocking back and forth, because this time it's daddy orange behind the trigger man? What a joke.

I recently bought a gun and they asked if I wanted to add an amount to donate to the NRA.

I said fuck no.

The NRA needs to STFU at this point. They enabled this. Their followers are either collaborators (being ICE), or cowards who cosplayed defending against Authoritarianism; the time they could have mobilized to assert their Holy 2nd Amendment is already long past.

Of course it's neither and both -- they just wanted the money.

Seriously California should consider replacing him. Given the political climate and event that caused this statment its in bad taste assuming he isn't a fascist.