Morning Jolt: Live from the NRA’s Annual Meeting

On the menu today: A rare, datelined edition of this newsletter, as I am in Houston to cover this year's National Rifle Association Annual Meeting. Critics of the NRA are calling for the convention to be canceled, but that is unlikely to happen for a wide variety of reasons, and the knee-jerk demonization of the NRA this week is likely to overshadow the divides and lingering problems within the organization.

NRA in Houston

Houston — The National Rifle Association has been here before.

The Columbine High School massacre occurred on April 20, 1999. The NRA's annual meeting was scheduled to begin about a week later, in nearby Denver. The organization did reduce its then-three-day convention to just one day, and canceled a planned gun show, but the group's president at the time, actor Charlton Heston, rejected charges that his organization was somehow responsible for the mass shooting in the Denver suburb.

"We will not be silent or be told, 'Do not come here, you are not welcome in your own land,'" Heston said in his speech to ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 26 2022 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 26 2022 Live from the NRA's Annual Meeting On the menu today: A rare, datelined edition of this newsletter, as I am in Houston to cover this year's National Rifle Association Annual Meeting. Critics of the NRA are calling for the convention to be canceled, but that is unlikely to happen for a wide variety of reasons, and the knee-jerk demonization of the NRA this week is likely to overshadow the divides and lingering problems within the organization. NRA in Houston Houston — The National Rifle Association has been here before. The Columbine High School massacre occurred on April 20, 1999. The NRA's annual meeting was scheduled to begin about a week later, in nearby Denver. The organization did reduce its then-three-day convention to just one day, and canceled a planned gun show, but the group's president at the time, actor Charlton Heston, rejected charges that his organization was somehow responsible for the mass shooting in the Denver suburb. "We will not be silent or be told, 'Do not come here, you are not welcome in your own land,'" Heston said in his speech to ...   READ MORE

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