Another Shocking development

[Rip Van Winkle]

By REID J. EPSTEIN | 1/10/13 1:24 PM EST Updated: 1/10/13 5:50 PM EST
The NRA emerged from a high-profile meeting Thursday with Vice President Joe Biden and immediately made clear it won’t support any new gun laws.

“We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment,” the NRA said in a statement. “While claiming that no policy proposals would be ‘prejudged,’ this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners — honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans.”

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[timwarner]

How is this shocking? They had their minds made up before the meeting with the NRA. And had pretty much said so, but only had a meeting with the pro-gun side so as to appear to be "balanced".

[minnhawk]

I believe the word "shocking" needs quotes around it, as Rip is probably being facetious and/or ironic at the same time. The NRA response was definitely not shocking; it was the expected response from the NRA meeting with Jumpin' Joe.

[Rip Van Winkle]

I guess I should have put the word sarcasm in there somewhere.

[TJ]

NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Mn politicians need to be reminded of that date.