Idiot Extraordinaire - National Rifle Association

[AnCap Dave]

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SALT LAKE CITY — After criticizing the video game industry for promoting violence, the National Rifle Association has released an app where users can take target practice on their iPhone or iPad.

The app, NRA: Practice Range, which was released Sunday, is intended to promote safety, training and education about guns and "puts the NRA's broad scope of resources in the palm of your hand — with 2nd Amendment newsfeeds, gun law information centers and educational materials that you can access anywhere, anytime," according to the app's description on iTunes.

The app is free, but for 99 cents users can upgrade their M9 for a Beretta, Browning or Colt handgun. Users can choose between indoor, outdoor or skeet shooting. According to the iTunes ratings system, the app is appropriate for users who are at least 4 years old.

On Dec. 21, addressing the Sandy Hook massacre, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre criticized the video game industry for promoting violence: "Guns don't kill people. Video games, the media and Obama's budget kill people," LaPierre said. "There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people, through vicious, violent video games with names like 'Bulletstorm,' 'Grand Theft Auto,' 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Splatterhouse.' "

Although the NRA's app only allows users to practice at a target range, many are criticizing the NRA for being hypocritical, releasing the game only weeks after LaPierre's statement.

A call from the NRA has not been returned.

>Blame video games for mass shootings
>make video game teaching people how to shoot guns

Could it truly be anyone else?

[MrBogosity]

I don't see how they're being hypocrites. The game isn't violent; it takes place at a shooting range and you just shoot non-human, inanimate targets. They're idiots for blaming violent video games, but not hypocrites for releasing a nonviolent game of their own.