[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 50 (Thursday, April 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H3584-H3585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE NRA; AN ORGANIZATION WITH NO SHAME

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow is April 19, the anniversary of 
the worst terrorist attach in U.S. history, the bombing in Oklahoma 
City. Timothy McVeigh, the person accused of the bombing, chose April 
19, because that is the day the standoff with the Branch Davidians at 
Waco ended.
  April 19 has become a holiday to some paranoid extremists, a day that 
to them symbolizes government's supposed tyranny. So the National Rifle 
Association, a group that gives aid and comfort to this paranoia and 
extremism by comparing law enforcement to Nazis, deliberately chose 
this day to hold their annual conference.
  While most Americans will spend April 19 respecting the memory of 
those who died in Oklahoma City, the NRA will be at their convention 
bragging about their guns, thinking about AK-47's and their Uzis, 
instead of mourning the 169 people who died.
  Simply put, the NRA leaders are thumbing their noses at the memory of 
those who died at Oklahoma City.
  It is disgusting that the organization that called law enforcement 
storm troopers and jackbooted thugs is holding their convention 
tomorrow. The NRA is truly an organization with no shame.

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