The chances of the NRA taking Mark Kelly’s advice is somewhere between 0.00% and 0.001%.
Via HuffPo:
Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), continued to lobby for anti-gun violence measures this week, attempting to reach members of the National Rifle Association in an op-ed ahead of the group’s annual meeting in Houston this weekend.
Writing in the Houston Chronicle, Kelly urged responsible gun owners of the NRA to stand up against a group of leaders that he claimed had “turned their backs on the very safety measures, like background checks, that the organization used to stand for — in exchange for cold hard cash.”
Kelly argued that the best way to do that would be to vote out leaders like NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, who testified in favor of background checks in 1999, but more recently spoke out against them. LaPierre argued more recently that background checks would be ineffective and could lead to privacy issues. LaPierre was in it for his own financial benefit, Kelly argued.