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May 10, 2021, 10:22 am
The NRA is facing yet more backlash after posting a Mother’s Day meme on Twitter showing a mother and daughter holding large guns reading “mama didn’t raise a victim” on the same morning as a deadly mass shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Just after midnight, an armed man opened fire in a trailer during a birthday party, killing his girlfriend and her family before killing himself.
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Even in an America where we are back to having mass shootings pretty much every day, many did not appreciate the tweet by the NRA, which can go back to promoting gun safety and responsibility any time it wants.
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“Happy Mother’s Day to all NRA moms!” the organization wrote. “On top of the millions of other jobs moms have, NRA moms fight for our right to self-defense, while also defending themselves, their families, and communities.”
“We are forever grateful for these fierce women.”
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Unfortunately for both the NRA and the women they say they care about, having a gun in the home is far more likely to result in said gun being used against her in an act of domestic violence than in her using it against an attacker. The same goes for her daughter, no matter how much NRA merchandise she might wear.
The fact that the Colorado Springs shooting involved a boyfriend killing his girlfriend suggests that this shooting was yet another case in which people having easy access to guns in the U.S. did not make women and girls safer, but rather exactly the opposite. According to the Gun Violence Archive, this was the 194th mass shooting in the U.S. in 2021, which means we are ahead of the pace to have more mass shootings than days this year.
These are the kinds of details that had NRA critics spending their Mother’s Day using the organization as target practice.
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*First Published: May 10, 2021, 10:22 am
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