Remember how the NRA tried to make excuses for guns themselves and blame just about everything and everyone else in society for gun violence after the Sandy Hook killings?
They were particularly hot against "violent video games," which the inimitable Wayne LaPierre called "a corrupt shadow industry" that was inciting the youth of the United States to mindless violence.....though strangely enough, as some of the irreverent and well-read impudently pointed out, the youths of all other countries where the same games are played seem to be largely immune to these dire effects.
So guess what the NRA did today?
Yup. Released a video game.
It's for iOS, and it's called NRA: Practice Range.
Just in time for the one-month anniversary of Sandy Hook. How thoughtful of them.
It has three modes: indoor and outdoor shooting, and skeet shooting. You can delight yourself practicing hunting with such essential tools as an AK-47 assault rifles (the United States seems to be the only country where deer wear armor) and an MK-11 sniper rifle, for those who like to work at long range, such as from a clock tower, a school book depository, you know, those sorts of places.
Although the game is free, you have to pay 99 cents each for the really sexy weapons, like the AK. Someone in the NRA has apparently been playing Team Fortress 2 and taking notes. I'm a little surprised that NRA: Practice Range doesn't sell hats as well. But give them time.
The whole thing, including a series of attached "NRA Fun Facts," is recommended for players four years old and up.
More proof that irony is dead. But self-parody is alive and well.