A slideshow: 2013 NRA Convention in Houston
Heavy Artillery
Bumper Sticker Attitude
Granny with Pistole Parabellum 1908
The 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits runs from Friday, May 3, through Sunday, May 5. More than 70,000 are expected to attend the event with more than 500 exhibitors represented.
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From the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board
Welcome to Houston, NRA members. Welcome also, we would hope, to an honest and thorough discussion this week about guns in our society and about the organization’s goals and purposes.
We will be hearing a lot during the next few days about the NRA’s views on the threat of a gun-owners’ registry, assaults on the Second Amendment, the necessity of enforcing laws on the books instead of passing new ones, the futility of background checks and other gun-related issues. We thought that NRA members gathering in Houston from around the country might want to know a little more about guns and their host city.
They should know, for example, that Houstonians support the Second Amendment. We own guns and use them. We shoot ducks in the wetlands around El Campo and Eagle Lake. We hunt deer in the Texas Hill Country. And, yes, many of us keep a gun or two in a closet at home for safety, security and peace of mind.
Houstonians do not believe that their support for the Second Amendment precludes support for sensible rules and sane regulations designed to protect human life from a tool designed for the sole purpose of taking life.
Here in Houston, an annual survey by a respected Rice University sociologist found recently that 90 percent of the citizenry supports universal background checks for gun buyers. That number reflects nationwide findings, as the NRA is well aware. Close to 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of NRA members support background checks.
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