by Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, had a message for Attorney General Eric Holder when he spoke to NRA members at the association’s Indianapolis convention.
“Just last year,” Cox recalled, “Holder tried to equate self-defense with gun violence. He said ‘It’s time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sew dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods.’ Self-defense is not a concept, it’s a fundamental human right. You didn’t give it to us and you’re sure as hell not going to take it away from us.”
The crowd raised a rousing applause and cheer. Clearly, the highestranking law enforcement officer in the land is not one of their favorites.
Cox was delivering his annual “report” to the members, which traditionally turns into an energizing pep talk to the faithful, and this time around, he hit all the right chords.
Speaking as if to the attorney general, Cox declared, “Congress was right to hold you in contempt and you should have been fired a long time ago, But (President Barack) Obama won’t fire him because he agrees with him.
“If you think his universal health care is a disaster,” Cox added, “how do you think his universal gun registration would work out?
“The truth is,” he stated, “gun control is the unfinished business of Barack Obama’s presidency. And it’s up to us to stop him.”
Even before he launched into Holder’s anti-gun activities, Cox had gone after school officials who had suspended a youngster for chewing a Pop Tart into the shape of a pistol, and others who had tried to make a high school honor student cover up or take off a pro-gun T-shirt. The student instead opted to take a suspension.
He also warned that “gun control groups and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) are “infiltrating our schools, teaching our kids that their parents are irresponsible if they own a gun, murderers if they hunt and downright evil if they belong to the NRA.”
Cox also blasted the hypocrisy of elites including Michael Bloomberg and Piers Morgan, and anti-gun politicians including indicted Califor nia State Sen. Leland Yee and former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Last year, Nagin was convicted on several counts of official corruption, and Yee faces criminal charges on allegations of illegal gun trafficking.
About Bloomberg, Cox observed, “He thinks that with enough decep tive TV ads, political contributions and self-serving press conferences, he can buy the hearts and minds of the American people. He thinks he can buy freedom that countless Americans have given their lives to defend.
“Let me tell you something,” he added, “the five million members of the National Rifle Association will not allow Michael Bloomberg to lie his way or buy his way or bully his way into taking our Second Amendment rights.”
