“The NRA has not commented — we have a longstanding policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations,” Amy Hunter, an NRA spokesperson, told The Intercept. In late 2012, after the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA was faced with a strategic choice: Recognize that lax gun laws had gone too far and find some reasonable compromise, or dig in. The NRA decided to make its stand, blaming mental health care and video games for the shooting. “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre famously said. Who the NRA decides to stand up for — whose life matters, and whose doesn’t — lets us know what LaPierre meant by good.

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