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“One thousand dead kids would have very little impact on us. Now if 50,000 kids died in a school shooting that might be a different story. Something around 50,000 to 80,000 dead kids. You know what, forget that. Maybe something closer to 250,000. Yeah, 250,000 dead kids.”

The Onion, on the NRA, last May.

Margaret Soltan, December 17, 2012 2:02PM
Posted in: guns

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