NRA Board Member Blames ‘Sympathy Factor of Kids Getting Killed’ for Possibility of Gun Control Laws Passing

‘Wake up people and see what’s happening!!!!’ Charles Cotton Warns

Longtime NRA Board Member Charles Cotton is concerned gun control laws may actually pass in the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school massacre, and he’s blaming the “sympathy factor of kids getting killed.”

Marjory Stoneman Douglas student survivors have won the hearts of many across the nation, and have effectively countered the tired arguments of the NRA and gun advocates.

Cotton posted to a pro-gun message board, the Texas CHL Forum, responding to a member upset that bump stocks may actually get banned. Bump stocks are add on devices that effectively turn semi-automatic assault weapons into automatic weapons.

In a thread titled, “Can it be?: We may lose more gun rights under Trump than Obama?” just before midnight Monday Cotton wrote, “the reality is we could well see bump-stocks ‘taken away’ because the votes are probably there.”

“Wake up people and see what’s happening!!!! Bloomberg and Hollywood are pouring money into this effort and the media is helping to the fullest extent. We’ve never had this level of opposition before, not ever. It’s a campaign of lies and distortion, but it’s very well funded and they are playing on the sympathy factor of kids getting killed.”

It’s unclear what the “lies and distortion” are that Cotton claims. 

He also told members the NRA needs to triple its membership to fight gun safety.

“If you really want to make a difference, then start recruiting NRA members every single day. The NRA better be 15 million strong soon, or this is only going to get worse.”

Cotton is no stranger to controversy. In 2015 he said that physically disciplining a school-aged child by “paddling” them might stop him from “having to put a bullet in him later.”

Just months before that Cotton blamed the pastor of the Charleston church for his own murder by a white supremacist terrorist who killed nine bible study members.

Cotton, in addition to serving on the NRA’s Board of Directors, also serves on the Board of Trustees of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.