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Anti-Gun Shannon Watts Reams NRA For Pro-Police Video, Gets Slammed

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Jan 10, 2018 DailyWire.com

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On Tuesday, the National Rifle Association (NRA) posted a video honoring American police on #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay.

Our nation’s police officers put their lives on the line every day to protect those in need—including the ignorant and ungrateful who direct criticism toward the entire profession. Stand with us. Help us #BackOurBlue. #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay pic.twitter.com/5MDW3fBcLa
— NRATV (@NRATV) January 9, 2018

The goal of the video was to urge NRA members and followers to donate their cars to law enforcement.

Predictably, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts used the occasion to attack the NRA with this tweet:

In this video the @NRA alleges that Beyoncé, Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter don’t support police, yet NRA lobbyists are responsible for making police vulnerable to shooting deaths via weak gun laws. Many of the gun laws the NRA supports are opposed by police. https://t.co/WVyl639BPO
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 10, 2018

But Watts’ argument falls flat; the NRA has supported Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) bill that would improve the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) by directing agencies and states to report their crimes to the FBI.

Watts’ remarks in the face of a video honoring the men and women who put their lives on the line every day triggered some angry responses on Twitter, including:

Criminals don’t follow the laws. You will never be able to get guns out of the hands of criminals. You’re not going to try and tell me that if they pass some gun ban it’s going to make me safer. The government can’t even control immigration laws as they are. You are delusional.
— Vincent Wilson (@TheBugbyte) January 10, 2018

If the laws were much stronger, the criminals would still disobey them. That’s what makes them criminals. Where were you going with this point?
I know nothing about Beyoncé,but I do know that BLM and Al Sharpton are violently anti police. Any amount of research will reveal that.
— Mark Tymowski (@MarkTymowski) January 10, 2018

Placing restrictive laws that only law abiding citizens will follow will not keep criminals from breaking those laws and/or prevent them from attempting to harm police and contrary to your post, police also acknowledge that.https://t.co/NOOEl94r3A
— NorthAmericanArms (@NorthernArms) January 10, 2018

Um yeah dimwit, like criminals are going to obey any gun law. Check out Chicago, they really work there don’t they? Have you heard the one where the cop was saved by a CC permitholder?
— minervalong (@deplorabledora) January 10, 2018

Hadn’t seen it. Great video. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll definenty share it with all I know. BTW good luck with your little endeavor.
— m2112j (@m2112j1) January 10, 2018

H/T Twitchy

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