Twenty dead kids? Let's change the subject.
For one whole week after the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of 20 children and six educators, the National Rifle Association (NRA) somehow managed to keep their lips zipped. But then they came out—excuse the expression—guns a blazin. And we were alternately
shocked,
disgusted and
horrified by what they had to say.
And now, when asked if there were any regrets about their responses to the mass murder, NRA president David Keene says no, because:
We had to change the subject.
Of course. Because as the Second Amendment clearly states, we can't have people dwelling on the thought of 20 terrified first-graders being gunned down in their classroom. It's just so ... un-American.