Mike Thompson's toon and comments on the NRA silence since Sandy Hook Elementary ...

The National Rifle Association has finally broken its silence and responded to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. According to news reports, the gun lobbying organization had taken down its Facebook page and its official Twitter account had been mute ever since the tragedy last week in which six adults and 20 children were murdered.

“Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting,” the NRA said in a statement released Tuesday evening, The New York Times reported.

I have no doubt that the NRA leadership and its members were just as horrified and saddened by the recent tragic shooting spree as everyone else. People on both sides of the gun debate felt the same intense grief. But the NRA’s prolonged silence was more about hunkering down until the storm of outrage over the Sandy Hook massacre subsided and the organization could get back to its usual business of opposing even the most common sense restrictions on guns.

Here’s hoping that the storm keeps blowing.

http://www.freep.com/article/20121219/BLOG24/121219002/Mike-Thompson-The-NRA-and-the-Sandy-Hook-massacre