Parkland shooting survivors cry hypocrisy after NRA bans guns during Pence speech

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Parkland shooting survivors cry hypocrisy after NRA bans guns during Pence speech
"I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something?"
ELHAM KHATAMI APR 29, 2018, 10:27 AM

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has announced that guns will be barred when Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speech at its upcoming leadership conference in Dallas, and survivors of the Parkland school shooting are calling them out on it.

“Due to the attendance of the Vice President of the United States, the U.S. Secret Service will be responsible for event security at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum. As a result, firearms and firearm accessories, knives or weapons of any kind will be prohibited in the forum prior to and during his attendance,” the NRA wrote on the website for the event, which is scheduled to take place next month.

Survivors of the February 14 Parkland, Florida school shooting wasted no time calling out the organization out for hypocrisy, taking to Twitter to voice their frustrations against the NRA’s apparent double standard.

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland massacre, reiterated one of the NRA’s own talking points to highlight the organization’s insincerity.

“I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something?” he tweeted, referring to the “good guys with guns” theory often touted by the NRA.

https://thinkprogress.org/parkland-shooting-survivors-cry-hypocrisy-after-nra-bans-guns-during-pence-speech-e21f8558bd0c/

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1. No hypocrisy in this one.

It's the USSS, not the NRA, that is banning weapons.
Stuff like this doesn't help their cause.