In answer to you're question, YES, the NRA is right. Anyone with an IQ over 75 should be able to understand that a gun is an inanimate object, it will do nothing of IT'S OWN ACCORD. If you don't understand that ,and you're IQ is below 75, I could understand but not sympathize with that. If you're IQ is above 75 and don't get it, then you're most likely a dumbass. You do not penalize the law-abiding, you make the punishment for violent crime so severe that few would even consider it. This guy needs to be strung up from the nearest tree and hung by the neck until dead. Then his remains need to be left to rott and to remind all others that would consider a similar action the fate that awaits them. Something on the lines that the British goverment took in the 1700's -1800's to eleminate piracy, it works.

The soldiers fighting the war has to pay for their own weapons and ammo through the black market because under the laws there they are not allowed in armed!  Do you think the government pays for those black market weapons?  NO!  So you have to wonder just where all the fundings for our soldiers in this war is actually going since it is claimed we are spending billions of tax payers dollars for it!  Now where do you suppose all that money is really going?

Assault weapons should not be legal.

Weapons designed to be easily converted to assault weapons should be illegal.

Let hunters have their rifles, let licensed gun owners have their hand guns for protection.

But assault weapons should not be available to anyone but military and police.  Possession of assault weapons should be a crime.

We have more guns in the US than in any other country and we have more killings.  Guns have  not made this country safer.  Actually, statistics show that a gun in the home, if it is to be used on someone, most likely will be used on someone in that family.  I choose not to have guns in my home.  You can feel free to have guns in your home, but please do it safely.