NRA's LaPierre calls for more armed personnel after Navy Yard shooting

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37. A more effective tactic would be to concentrate on increase mental health spending

But that would mean more government spending and thus isolate them from the rest of the GOP.

In many ways such a position would benefit the NRA, by showing it accepts the need for increase government spending. The problem is the GOP base (The Tea-Party members) and the GOP leaders (Wall street) have embraced the concept that ALL and ANY government spending is bad. Thus the NRA is in a bind, its best defense against more gun control is increase government spending on Mental Health, but such a position would put them outside the GOP "Tent" of lower taxes and less government. Thus the NRA keeps yelling for more police and more guns for that is popular with the tea-party base of the GOP AND the Wall Street elite of the GOP for that is popular with the Tea-Party and Wall street but ignore what I considered a more effective policy of demanding increase spending on Mental Health.