At NRA meeting, Ricketts says group has been 'vilified and unfairly attacked'

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Emily Nitcher

LINCOLN — Saying the National Rifle Association had been “vilified and unfairly attacked,” Gov. Pete Ricketts avowed his support for Second Amendment rights in a speech at the association’s annual meeting.

The governor spoke Friday at the NRA’s forum in Dallas to a crowd that earlier in the day heard from President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others.

Second Amendment rights are fundamental to Americans, but those rights are under attack, Ricketts said to the crowd.

“How do we fight this tide of people who are trying to change our Constitution and take away our rights?” Ricketts said.

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Gov. Pete Ricketts

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[Botany]

1. How about their rights, Mr. Ricketts?

Link to tweet

[paleotn]

8. ......

thank you for posting that graphic. The evil bastards need their crimes shoved in their faces constantly.

[Botany]

12. I have hunted and owned A FEW guns of years and I'm sickened by the bloodshed and waste of ...

.... lives because of the proliferation of guns in America. BTW as a father my interest
in hunting (deer) has fallen off ever since Sandy Hook. More guns = more gun deaths
and shootings end of story. There is no reason for anybody outside of the military and or
law enforcement to own an AR-15 or any other assault weapon.

[heaven05]

14. +++nt

[SCVDem]

2. Not in their beginning,

but today's NRA is simply a Terrorist Organization espousing bad ideas about weapons, responsibility and reality.

They should be labeled as such and shut down!

[Hoyt]

3. BS. They are a white wing organization with an agenda far beyond guns. They have board members

like this piece of crud elected by the membership:

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[jberryhill]

4. Snowflakes

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The attackers are really the attacked

I'd call it hypocrisy but not sure if it fits. Projection, but it's not an adequate term to describe accusing others of being exactly what you are while denying you are what you are.

[Achilleaze]

6. He was against Dirty Donny* before he was for Dirty Donny*

which tells you a lot about Ricketts and republican "integrity"

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Historic NY]

7. Really nothing about the NRA folks going after Parkland survivors.

and vilifying them.

[djacq]

9. This Convention was a big middle finger to the REAL victims

Keep fighting Parkland, keep fighting.

[paleotn]

10. They've not been vilified and attacked nearly enough.

Burn them the fuck down!!!!!

[Wuddles440]

11. The CONS....

always play the "victim" card! It's just part of their DNA along with creating an alternative reality.

[turbinetree]

13. Hey Jerk, I know another amendment, that human beings have died for

it's called the First Amendment, and it's number one for a reason............................have you figured it out yet...................Asshole

Your Koch backed right wingers asshole have control over 30 state houses and your Koch assholes want to have Constitutional Convention and rewrite the Constitution for it to favor them, and to just plain fuck people over legally.............so FUCK YOU

[benld74]

15. These effin $$$aires

Making statements
Backing entities
Showing their true colors
Nebraska
You
Can
Do
Better

[msongs]

16. soo how is this "news" of any kind? nt

[Initech]

17. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of assholes.

[cp]

18. Can't be vilified if you're a villain

I think we ought to just laugh 'em out of existence.

[TomCADem]

19. Really? Here is NRA Ad: NRA Warns Journalists: 'Your Time Is Running Out'

Perhaps they NRA should stop peddling rhetoric like this threatening the press:

[Corgigal]

20. Another old white guy

with taxpayer paid security talking tough.