..."Everything we do here has a downside," NRA official Kayne Robinson says on the tapes. "Don't anybody kid yourself about this great macho thing of going down there and showing our chest and showing how damn tough we are. ... We are in deep s*** on this deal. ... And so anything we do here is going to be a matter of trying to decide the best of a whole bunch of very, very bad choices."...
Just collateral damage to their firearm company funders. Never show sympathy for the innocents, it makes you look weak. When everyone is armed, chances are more people die. Guns are not nuclear weapons that parity is used to keep the peace. More guns just fosters more random shots fired. Even cops in a gun battle often shoot dozens of rounds with only a few actually hitting the target they were aiming for. That’s a lot of lead flying around loose.