I have rarely heard a more tone deaf, sanctimonious and blame shifting speech in my entire life than yesterday's #NRA press conference. After literally sweeping members of the press for guns (oh, the irony), the gun lobby blamed everything--mental health, violent video games, the media--but guns for America's problem with gun violence. Their answer to last week's tragedy: guns. More guns. Everyone with guns. Guns, guns, guns. Specifically they want an armed guard in every school in America (at taxpayer's expense). Did you know there was an armed guard at Columbine High School the day of the shooting? 13 people died there. Remember Ft. Hood? 11 people were killed there. I have a sneaking suspicion there were more than a few guns on base that day. The NRA has previously suggested that concealed carry laws would curtail tragedies like this. They haven't. The NRA continues to refuse any and all compromise, says it wants to start a conversation but then disallows rebuttal or questions, and speaks only to its base and not the American people and certainly not the victims or their families. It is now out of step with American popular thinking and is, for the first time in a very long time, running scared. They sense a shift in the wind. Their actions are those of a desperate organization trying desperately to wash the blood from their hands before an increasingly wrathful public storms their well-fortified walls. The NRA has weathered storms like this in the past only because they knew that if they held out long enough, America's short attention span would myopically shift to some other shinier object.

Don't let that happen, America.

Never forget.

Stay angry.

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