Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) responded to the National Rifle Association president’s apology on Tuesday by saying the “most acceptable” apology would be the gun group “no longer putting profit over public safety.”
After McBath slammed NRA president Carolyn Meadows for saying the outspoken gun rights activist was only elected because she was a “minority candidate,” Meadows apologized on Monday.
“I apologize to Rep. McBath and her supporters,” she said in a statement to the Washington Post. “My comments were insensitive and inappropriate. I did not intend to discredit the congresswoman or the merits of her campaign — only to reflect my view that the Second Amendment was not a prevailing factor in this election.”
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin asked McBath if she accepted the apology.
“It’s not a matter of me having to accept an apology from her,” the congresswoman said. “The most acceptable apology for me would be if the NRA gun lobby as — if they stop pushing their extremist agenda and that they are no longer putting profit over public safety.”
“That would be the most acceptable apology I could ever receive,” she added.
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Rep. Lucy McBath responds to NRA president's apology: The most acceptable apology would be the NRA "no longer putting profit over public safety" pic.twitter.com/9U8APAF7tS
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Quick…
Hand in the air if you were among the crowd of us who thought this would not end well for the NRA’s misguided snot of a leader?
You’ll have to pry my Ermenegildo Zegna off my cold, dead torso!
Except this time it’s Carolyn Meadows, the NRA’s new president. Maybe someone should check the receipts for what she’s wearing?
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the Swashbuckling Ms McBath ! Well played!
My problem with the apology is, “only to reflect my view that the Second Amendment was not a prevailing factor in this election”. The view of the Second Amendment should not be a “prevailing factor” or really any factor in the results of any election.
I mean well discussing gun safety, nobody has ever suggested banning guns or taking most guns away from anyone. Rather there are basically two issues in the gun safety debate.
What guns are for sports like hunting rifles, what guns are for personal protection like handguns and what guns are for killing like assault/semi automatic/automatic guns. This includes issues like modifications to guns or the amount of ammunition before needing to reload.
Who should be able to buy a gun, what background check is required and should there be a waiting period.
But the NRA convinces its members that one any sensible discussion on gun safety is an attempt to take all guns away from everyone and turn America into a lawless dictatorship whereby people of color with Government support will break into our homes and rape every White woman between 8 and 80. The NRA’s position on guns has been absorbed by the Republican party to get other than economic voters to support policies that result in mass shootings and shift wealth away from these voters to Donald Trump.