NRA TV host apologizes for Twitter post that some say calls for attack on Sacramento
A National Rifle Association spokesman has apologized for a tweet that appeared to some to advocate a North Korean military strike on Sacramento.
Grant Stinchfield, host of NRATV.com and a Dallas radio show, posted, “Let’s send a note to North Korea that Sacramento changed its name to Guam” to his Twitter account Thursday. North Korea has threatened to fire missiles at Guam as part of a standoff with the United States over its nuclear program.
Let's send a note to North Korea that Sacramento changed its name to Guam!
— Grant Stinchfield (@stinchfield1776) August 11, 2017
MediaMatters.org highlighted the tweet on its blog, and Connecticut Against Gun Violence posted about it to Facebook as part of its call on Congress to denounce the NRA for allegedly inciting violence.
Stinchfield’s comment drew a number of responses on Twitter by Friday morning, many of them negative, though at least one poster defended it as sarcasm.
This is how conservatives talk about their fellow Americans.
— Jessica (@NoFascistsPls) August 11, 2017
You guys can't even get being nationalists right.
You just advocated the murder of millions, confirming the NRA is a terrorist org and all its members must be arrested immediately. @fbi
— ImpeachmentIsComing (@TrumpRapedAKid) August 11, 2017
To all NRA members in Sacramento: Go die in a nuclear fire! That is basically what you just said.
— Joseph D. Cannon (@Exp4nd3r) August 11, 2017
Learn how #sarcasm + #satire work. For example: San Francisco is proudly unAmerica. Exit to the left. Or just karma https://t.co/eTFoep7YTa
— Righty (@RightinCA) August 11, 2017
Stinchfield apologized later Friday for the tweet, reported the New York Daily News.
“It was meant as a joke and I regret it,” he told the paper. “What’s going on with North Korea is no laughing matter.”
This story was originally published August 11, 2017 at 10:28 AM with the headline "NRA TV host apologizes for Twitter post that some say calls for attack on Sacramento."