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NRA refuses to meet with Obama on gun control
By: Bill O'ReillyMarch 15, 2011
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Politico: The National Rifle Association is declining to meet with the Obama administration to discuss gun control, signaling that the nation's largest gun lobby isn't willing to come to the table on a Democratic president's terms.

"Why should I or the NRA go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States?" said Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, in an interview with The New York Times on Monday. He cited Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - the latter of whom has little to do with gun policy - as examples...

Obama said he wants to bolster some existing laws, for example by finding a way to more effectively implement the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, requiring states to provide better data to the system and introducing ways to make it "faster and nimbler."

But LaPierre said he sees the president operating under a series of assumptions that are unfriendly to the NRA. "It shouldn't be a dialogue about guns; it really should be a dialogue about dangerous people," he said.
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