The NRA view of school shootings, in pictures

The National Rifle Association uses a comic book to explain the party line on mass shootings like the one at Virginia Tech.
The National Rifle Association has stayed largely silent about Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech, but silence is not its usual strategy. In fact, as a leaked advance copy of its graphic novel "Freedom in Peril" shows, the new NRA strategy is to play offense when school shootings occur, making sure to stand up for Second Amendment rights in the aftermath.

Previously excerpted on Washington political gossip blog Wonkette and other sites, the graphic novel shows guns and gun owners under attack from all sorts of different enemies -- "illegal alien gangs," celebrities and the stern visage of financier George Soros -- but in the case of school shootings the enemy is clearly the press. On this page, the novel discusses how the media, in the NRA's view, uses these kinds of shootings; on the next, a reporter is depicted as a vulture holding a microphone.

The full graphic novel is available for download here.

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