NRA Spits on graves of Newtown victims with New Shoot em Up Application

[songfourone]

One month after the tragedy the NRA behaves like this:

National Rifle Association launched free game that could allow children to play target practice and pay to unlock more powerful weapons, including an assault weapon like the one used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1240207

[reg_indy]

Talk about tone deaf..

[naive]

They are simply teaching these kids to protect themselves, much like a driving simulator teaches a kid to drive...

Guns in school will be the norm in a couple years...Grab your pencil, grab your gun and head off to school...

[ms maggie]

Love this:

In the game, shooters can take aim at clay ducks, or coffin-shaped targets with bull’s-eyes at head and chest level.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2I3IxqUOv

Seems like just a few weeks ago that LaPierre dude was piously explaining how the problem isn't guns, it's violence in entertainment and video games.

Oh wait, it was just a few weeks ago.

[songfourone]

They have no shame, never have. It is more about the gun and ammunition manufacturers lobby.

[octoburn]

It's this kind of "In your face!" stupidity that hurts the NRA among people who otherwise might be willing to consider some of their opinions that might fall on the more reasonable side. It also hurts their credibility among some of their allies who were so quick to blame violent video games for the insensitivity to violence.

Timing is everything ~ and something like this is just stupid unless they really are that oblivious or doing it on purpose to serve up as red meat to the faithful.

[ms maggie]

It's this kind of "In your face!" stupidity that hurts the NRA among people who otherwise might be willing to consider some of their opinions that might fall on the more reasonable side. It also hurts their credibility among some of their allies who were so quick to blame violent video games for the insensitivity to violence.

Timing is everything ~ and something like this is just stupid unless they really are that oblivious or doing it on purpose to serve up as red meat to the faithful.

I think they are panicking and are doubling down. Never involved with the NRA but from what I understand at one time it was a decent and beneficial organization devoted to firearms safely and outdoors activities. Since about the mid 90s I think it has gone looney-toons.

[llubon]

"Critics immediately blasted the powerful gun lobby, especially since the NRA itself blamed violent video games for contributing to Lanza’s deadly Dec. 14 rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School."


NRA gun lobby (civil rights group) hypocrisy at its finest.

[songfourone]

I am not sure what is worse this application coming out a month after the horrendous tragedy at Sandy Hook, the increase of gun and ammunition sales after the tragedy or the increase in applications to the NRA after the tragedy.

[Dryfire]

Talk about contempt prior to investigation. Did anybody download and play the game before you flew into a tizzie. I bet not!!!!!!!

Let's see:

NRA puts out a video game that shoots only targets and all of you have a hate the NRA ***** session.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/773...ge-game-on-ios

Video game manufacturers for games such as Special Ops and Grand Theft Auto, etc that are specifically killing people/cops, etc. are briskly flying off the shelves without one ever getting pulled off because of Newtowne and you all let that pass.

You all are a bunch of hypocrits just because it's the NRA.


Kettle meet black.

[Smokey 1]

I am not sure what is worse this application coming out a month after the horrendous tragedy at Sandy Hook, the increase of gun and ammunition sales after the tragedy or the increase in applications to the NRA after the tragedy.

What do you think people should do, turn in their weapons?

[Wild Eyed Southern Boy]

I am not sure what is worse this application coming out a month after the horrendous tragedy at Sandy Hook, the increase of gun and ammunition sales after the tragedy or the increase in applications to the NRA after the tragedy.

Clearly, not everyone agrees with you.

[songfourone]

Clearly, not everyone agrees with you.

Clearly, many do agree with me.

[songfourone]

What do you think people should do, turn in their weapons?

No do you?

[Smokey 1]

No do you?

Of course not but what do expect people would do if there are threats to ban semi autos?

[llubon]

Let's see:
NRA puts out a video game that shoots only targets and all of you have a hate the NRA ***** session.

The NRA denouces video games and then releases a game of their own and who would have guess it would be said, its only targets.

[songfourone]

Talk about contempt prior to investigation. Did anybody download and play the game before you flew into a tizzie. I bet not!!!!!!!

Let's see:

NRA puts out a video game that shoots only targets and all of you have a hate the NRA ***** session.

Video game manufacturers for games such as Special Ops and Grand Theft Auto, etc that are specifically killing people/cops, etc. are briskly flying off the shelves without one ever getting pulled off because of Newtowne and you all let that pass.

You all are a bunch of hypocrits just because it's the NRA.


Kettle meet black.

When the NRA produces an application for IPhone geared at children as young as four years of age, after the President of said NRA blamed video games for the shootings, some how you just have to say "Say What"????

I do not expect those kneeling at the altar of the NRA to at all "get it".

AMERICA'S National Rifle Association has released a shoot-em-up iPhone app aimed at children as young as four, a month after one of the country's worst mass school shootings.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/techno...-1226554071792

[ms maggie]

Talk about contempt prior to investigation. Did anybody download and play the game before you flew into a tizzie. I bet not!!!!!!!

Let's see:

NRA puts out a video game that shoots only targets and all of you have a hate the NRA ***** session.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/773...ge-game-on-ios

Video game manufacturers for games such as Special Ops and Grand Theft Auto, etc that are specifically killing people/cops, etc. are briskly flying off the shelves without one ever getting pulled off because of Newtowne and you all let that pass.

You all are a bunch of hypocrits just because it's the NRA.


Kettle meet black.

Hypocrits? NRA is in bed with the company that makes the worst kind of these videos.

But LaPierre's speech left out a key detail: His own organization has a video game, too. It's called NRA Gun Club, it was released in 2006 for PlayStation 2, and according to the top-ranked review on Amazon, it "could very well be the single worst game in the history of games." The game, which was rated "E" for kids 10 and older, featured a handgun on the cover with four bullets and consisted entirely of various target-shooting exercises. Gamers can shoot inanimate objects like watermelons, bottles, and clay pigeons, using one of over 100 different kinds of brand-name, licensed firearms like Beretta.

NRA Gun Club didn't have the kind of blood-and-guts violence LaPierre specifically attacked in his speech—but it was made by a company that makes its money off exactly that. Crave Entertainment, which produced NRA Gun Club, also released a game called Trigger Man, which, as the name suggests, is about a mob hit-man. IGN notes that as part of the game, players "will need to outfit themselves with the tools of the trade from body armor and over 14 weapons, to silencers to make the 'hit.'" Another release from Crave is Bad Boys: Miami Takedown. As you could probably guess from the Will Smith movie that inspired it, there's a lot of shooting—and not of the clay pigeon variety:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012...video-game-too

[songfourone]

Of course not but what do expect people would do if there are threats to ban semi autos?

What does a person need a semi automatic weapon for?

[Smokey 1]

What does a person need a semi automatic weapon for?

For self defense, hunting and target shooting for starters. The action allows for multiple shots without having to pull off the target to cycle another round manually.