The CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday decried the “evil that occurred at Robb Elementary School” in Texas, while vowing to protect the constitutional right of citizens to defend themselves.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said at the association’s annual convention that the NRA’s members are mothers and fathers who are grieving with the nation for the young lives “ruthlessly and indiscriminately extinguished” in Uvalde by the actions of “a criminal monster.”
He noted that while the NRA differed with President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party on policy, they “share common ground” in the belief that “tragedy will come again” but that “there are certain things we can do.”…