The NRA could have chosen to be a voice for the vast majority of its own members who want reasonable safeguards on deadly firearms, but instead it chose to defend extreme pro-gun positions that aren’t even popular among the law-abiding gun owners it represents.
— Former astronaut Mark Kelly, declaring in a statement that he and his wife Gabby Giffords are “extremely disappointed by the NRA’s defiant and delayed response” to the tragedy in Newtown.
