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Las Vegas Shooter Jerad Miller Mocked Isla Vista Killer Elliot Rodger On Facebook
By Howard Koplowitz@howardkoplowitz
on June 09 2014 2:42 PM
Las Vegas shooter Jerad Miller mocked Isla Vista killer Elliot Rodger while commenting on his Facebook page about a rally held in support of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
An open-carry rally was hosted in Burkburnett, Texas, late last month to protest the Bureau of Land Management, the government agency that accused Bundy of illegally grazing cattle on federal lands and engaged in a standoff with the controversial rancher, whose support diminished after he suggested blacks would be better off under slavery.
Miller commented on the rally while taking a swipe at Rodger, who said he planned his “Day of Retribution” because he was a 22-year-old virgin and complained girls weren’t giving him the attention he deserved.
“Look, no shootings,” Miller wrote on his Facebook page. “Wait, these guys [have] been laid.”
The Las Vegas shooter also criticized gun control advocates who blamed the NRA for the Isla Vista killings. On his Facebook page, Miller shared a photo from gun dealer FLL123.com’s page showing “King of the Hill” character Dale Gribble criticizing the left:
“So yet another liberal left-wing wack job [sic] goes on yet another mass shooting spree because he couldn’t get laid and that’s the NRA’s fault? Jeez, it’s no wonder liberalism’s regarded as a mental disorder,” the caption reads.
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N.R.A. Backs Away From Article Criticizing Advocates of Carrying Guns in Public
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS JUNE 4, 2014
**The National Rifle Association is distancing itself from an article on its website that called demonstrations by gun rights advocates who brandished weapons in public “scary” and “weird,” and that said such advocates had “crossed the line from enthusiasm to downright foolishness.”
The article and the subsequent denunciations in the past week are an unusual public disagreement inside the N.R.A. about the tactics of protesters, particularly in Texas, who have shown up with shotguns and rifles in parking lots and inside stores and restaurants to assert their right to openly carry firearms.**
The N.R.A. article, which was posted Friday on its website but received only modest attention initially, asked gun enthusiasts to consider their actions so as to avoid a negative impact on the movement, “such as turning an undecided voter into an anti-gun voter because of causing that person fear or offense.”
The article, with the headline, “Good Citizens and Good Neighbors: The Gun Owners’ Role,” added, “While unlicensed open carry of long guns is also typically legal in most places, it is a rare sight to see someone sidle up next to you in line for lunch with a 7.62 rifle slung across his chest, much less a whole gaggle of folks descending on the same public venue with similar arms.”
“Let’s not mince words, not only is it rare, it’s downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself,” the article said. “To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one’s cause, it can be downright scary. It makes folks who might normally be perfectly open-minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates.”
The article remained on the group’s Institute for Legislative Action website on Wednesday, although the byline, “By the National Rifle Association,” had been dropped. Its unsparing language prompted criticism from some N.R.A. members, which led the group to back away from the comments.
“The truth is, an alert went out that referred to this type of behavior as ‘weird’ or somehow not normal, and that was a mistake. It shouldn’t have happened,” Chris W. Cox, the group’s chief lobbyist, said in an interview on Tuesday on an N.R.A.-hosted program that was posted on the group’s website on Wednesday.
“The National Rifle Association supports open carry,” Mr. Cox said. “We support concealed carry. We have led the charge across the country to not only protect our members’ rights to self-defense, but to expand it.”
The association referred reporters on Wednesday to Mr. Cox’s remarks.
Laws approved by several state legislatures in the last two years to enact or expand “open carry” laws have led some places of worship and a number of retailers to ask patrons to leave their guns at home or in their vehicles to avoid upsetting others.
Some gun rights advocates have responded, in states where such actions are legal, by holding demonstrations in which they openly carry firearms. One advocacy group, Open Carry Texas, encourages members to walk around openly displaying their weapons, part of a push to persuade state lawmakers and the public to support open-carry legislation for handguns.
The legislation would give those licensed to carry concealed handguns the option of wearing their guns in holsters at their hips in public.
Other states, including Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, allow people to openly carry handguns with or without a license. Texas has never passed an open-carry law, and gun rights advocates across the state have grown increasingly assertive in their campaign, carrying their rifles inside and outside of restaurants, police stations, malls and even the Alamo in San Antonio.
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